Just wanted to say I’ve proposed collab features & lyric support features on ccMixter, and now I’m backing off. ccMixter is a remix site. I think if there are going to be collaboration features, they should exist to support collaboration on remixes (and let’s not revisit what a remix is again ;).

Other sites will support things other than remixes, like lyrics, songwriting, and different kinds of collaboration. For example, one site I’ve discussed recently called kompoz.com is designed to support collaboration on songwriting and producing a finished original track. On that site, which also supports cc licenses, a person might put a track out there with acoustic guitar & vocals and ask for contributors on bass, lead guitar, kit drums, and production/mastering. Kompoz.com has a different mission than a remix site, and I’m glad sites like it exist to serve that need. There are also lyrics/songwriting sites out there, but none specifically aligned with CC (although I’ve heard one may be in the works ;).

It’s actually more than OK that ccMixter AND these other sites exist. It’s pretty damn awesome. People with different needs will participate on different sites. And people with more than one need will participate on more than one site.

In the long run, as has already begun between ccMixter, Freesound, and others, linking the various sites together may be the best opportunity of all. CC licensed bass parts on the kompoz.com-like sites could become available as samples usable on ccMixter (they already are legally usable; the cross-site wiring for search & automated attribution just isn’t there yet). The same is true for the dry vocals on the kompoz.com-like sites, and the result would be a great new source of pellas for remixing on ccMixter. These are really sweet opportunities that will make each site stronger, in my opinion.

Anyway, I’m going to keep writing songs, recording them, and putting them out here. And I’m also going to put many of them out there on kompoz.com and see what happens.

By the way, I have absolutely no commercial tie to kompoz.com - no money flowing to me or anything. I just think it is a good new site for music collaboration with only a few dozen active people on it so far, and it will be stronger if there are some more people, so I’m spreading the word. Check it out if you’re interested in the sort of collaboration it is designed to support.

Peace (please).

Chris

some overlapping features is ok too. really all that’s happening is that people are already doing collabs and uploading the samples and results here, I’m just going to facilitate that so they can skip the step of having to email or private-share files.

the way I’m doing it: all that’s really happening is that some people are allowed to see some of your ‘hidden/unpublished’ works.

I thought about a ‘call for parts’ thing, others (as in: people I work for) have requested it so that may slip in some day.

for lyrics: your on your own.

I 2nd the motion ;) I think it’s a really good idea to take collabs to a site designed specifically for such things. ccMixter doesn’t suffer or loose out in any way if the community simply hang out in both places.

The people over at kompoz.com would be overjoyed I’m sure to be blessed with a small percentage of the kind of talent which exists here. That’s no crit of the folks over there already, they just need more numbers (it’s a very new site). They also seem keen to develop their site features specifically for collabs (obviously) so they seem like the right horse for this particular course.

I’m registered and ready to go ;)