User:Andre Castro/FactoryReset/1.3/Factory Project

Projects for factories

Questions

(think about you want to get across, the issues/questions you'd like to address)

Online collaborative sound/musical composition

• what are the motivations to participate in collaborative sound works ?

• what results might arise from such process?

• how can such a system be devised?

• what will bring users to participate?

• what existing examples of collaborative music composition exist?

• can it become something not serious?

• copyright laws? - an advocation of plunderphonics?

A Sketch

• could a song be created collectively, with unrestricted contributions?

• could Distributed Control Version System be implemented in for music making?
  
• A system that allows anyone to contribute, to submit his version, to resurrect previous version
  

To put a song in permanent construction.

• wikipedia could be taken as model of such a collaborative effort; a collective intelligence

However in wikipedia there is a goal: to create the more accurate body of knowledge as possible.

What could be the goal of a collective musical construction??

• compositions could be devised as games

Each one starting from a given sound material, a given set of rules, and an aim
(bringing a bit of humor as in Oulipo creations)

Example of a game/composition:

• Material: the week's #1 hit song
• Rules: users can only use material from that song; no effects should be used, only editing;
• After that week/month the song is finished;
• The various versions will be juxtaposed in chronological order
• Distributed widely (where to?? is there anyway of submitting a song for the tops??)

Technology

we are thinking of using git to as the underlying structure managing version history

References:

• Sonic Outlaws - FILM
• mix tape culture books - tape of favorite songs
• Variations series by Jon Leidecker
• Aymeric - The sound of network topologies - http://su.kuri.mu/00000001/2011----THE.SOUND.OF.NETWORK.TOPOLOGIES/
  • Notes:The Sound Of Network Topologies

Interfacing

how the projects could enter into a dialogue?

• Dave - svn, git. What does he wants to head with it? What is his take
• Eleanor - shared storage, maintenance

Each project has to think about 2 interfaces in other projects

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Other's projects

Eleanor: facebook censored from facebook

if you establish a social protocol that circunvent the restriction that allow a social experiment

• pirco wireless code of conduct - for Eleanor project

Graphic scores and Git

• Dave
• Cornelious Cardew - The Great Learning - negative feedback built into it
• the reproducibility and
• the social idea between open scores
• if open composition were tools for allowing non-musicians and trained musician to compose-play together
• graphic scores and open composition

• Cobra by John Zorn
• Notations by Christian Marcley

CONCLUSION OF PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

ideas are medium specific

• applying the factory paradigm to the medium which we are familiar with
• the next step is to abstract from the media; what are the common lines between project

when they similar in their structure and their approach