Crowdsourced Music: Remix the Mashup

by Jarrett Martineau | April 18, 2007 at 07:18 pm
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With its feet firmly planted in the worlds of sample-based music and
global remix culture, crowdsourced music is taking our shared
fascination with the re-working and re-interpretation of sounds, songs,
and sources to an entirely new level of creative collaboration. New,
community-based social networking music sites not only allow musicians
to make finished songs available to be shared, sold, and remixed - but
they also allow musicians to participate in a collaborative process of
writing, selling, and distributing their music. What is this sound of
this meta-mashup?

This is a question that we will be exploring in the music section of the Assignment Zero project, which is a huge experiment in using crowdsourced journalism to cover many different aspects of the crowdsourcing movement.

I'm editing AZ's music coverage and I am looking for contributors who would be interested in writing, research, and conducting interviews.

We'll be looking at some fascinating music sites including:

http://amiestreet.com

http://rapspace.tv

http://indabamusic.com

http://ccmixter.org/

http://www.splicemusic.com/

http://www.jamglue.com/

http://sellaband.com

No expertise needed - if you're into crowdsourcing and music, you should check it out. Head on over to http://zero.newassignment.net/topic/crowdsourced_music - to find out more and get involved.

 

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