MetaTalk posts tagged with collaboration

Who wants to play on a project?

frwagon — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:42:10 -0800

No-profit labor of love project - Any way to announce and seek help from the MetaFilter community? So, I'm working on a project that is a labor of love for me - not planning on taking in any money, but definitely not going to be able to do it alone... and I think the MeFi community would have the kind of people who would be interested in helping with it (Yes, i'm being deliberately vague). I'm not looking to pay anyone (So jobs is clearly not the right place) .. and it's nowhere near done (So projects is wrong)... Is there a place I can say "Hey MeFites, who wants to play on this project with me?"

i need feedback/help and don't know if mefi is appropriate.

Muffpub — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:38:28 -0800

I'm trying to get feedback/helpers on a collaborative Google Map of bike paths in the Boston area. It's pretty small and unambitious, hardly something I've spent "a few months" on. Is this appropriate for MeFi Projects? Hi, So I'm slowly - very slowly - trying to build a bike path map of the Boston area with some details and comments about specific roads since Boston's transportation systems are so crazy and unpredictable that simple color-coding usually doesn't do the city justice. I'd love to get some feedback as to whether this project is even a good idea, and if others think it is, to hopefully attract people who'd like to collaborate. This is hardly a "significant work" or "the type of things that typically take a few months to design, create, and build" as the projects FAQ lays out. I've only spent a few hours on it, but theoretically with enough people it could be a significant creation. At the same time, I don't want to be self-linking to ask if this is even a good idea in Ask MeFi. So what do I do? Ask for feedback in Ask MeFi without self-linking? Post in Projects anyway? Slink off?

Metafilter Music Collaboration #2

Karlos the Jackal — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:30:47 -0800

Hello, Citizens of MetaFilter! Over in the MeFi Music section, MeFi musicians have been playing a game of Exquisite Corpse for the last year or so. Now we have something that you can listen to. This project started with this post from April, 2008. I apologize for how long this has taken, but at least we didn't put Axl in charge. Briefly, the finished song involves 20 MeFites collaborating, each of whom heard only the contribution of one other person and nothing else. Full details and credits are over here.

I've got a hostage and a list of demands. No, wait, an ageing iBook and a midi controller. Sup?

Cantdosleepy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:36:04 -0800

So, who else is doing the make-an-album-in-a-month rpm challenge? Anyone in London interested in some collaboration? [Hope this is the right place for this kind of post. Too chatfilter-y for the blue, nowhere in the Music section for just chatting - there was a NaNoWriMo thread on the grey before, huh? Let me know if this is a boo-boo.] I did it last year with a friend and it was a bunch of fun. There seems to be a lot of musical talent here. And quite a few people with some free time. Who else likes to make noise? I'm also looking for someone else to do it with, if someone else is up for some shabby laptop-recorded Reason and guitars and such and possibly vocals if you like doing those or a garage rock with a single mic in a practice room etc etc. Have bandmix profiles and myspaces and such for those interested in working together, but don't want to cause self-link problems here.

Are you good with words?

BrnP84 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:20:33 -0800

Got any lyrics you'd like to see turned into songs? Got any songs that need lyrics? Post em on here and have fun collaborating with your fellow mefites. There's some cool stuff goin on over in the music section, if you haven't checked it out you should, it's awesome, if you don't mediocre might punch you in the dick Some mefites in the music section were talking about how much they hate writing lyrics but have oodles of music just lyin around. If you got anything you'd like to see turned into a song post em on here, maybe ORThey will add his chillin banjo or chococot will sing your song with his super sexy voice in a style that only Canadians can. If you haven't been over to the music section you should really check it out, it's good stuff.

Metafilter Music Collaboration #2

Karlos the Jackal — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:13:59 -0800

A bunch of us had fun with goodnewsfortheinsane's "It's the End of the World..." project last year. I think it's time to try another project, Exquisite Corpse style. Here is my proposal: I have a little tune to use as the "seed." I'll send it to Person #1. Person #1 will record a track to go along with it, and will send that track -- isolated -- not including the seed track -- to Person #2. Person #2 will record a track to go along with Person #1's track, and will send their track -- but not Person #1's track -- to Person #3. And so on. Each contributor hears only the last person's contribution. There are details to be worked out (like: should percussion get its own "spur"?), but that's basically the deal. After "enough" people contribute, I'll try to put everything together. Interested?

File Under: Finished.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:59:19 -0800

It's here: the Metafilter Music Collaboration. [Raw tracks available here!] Statistics: 26 parts submitted by sixteen people from four countries (including karlos the jackal's wife, and myself). First of all, of course, an immense thank you to all those who participated. This has been lots of fun - and I know how this sounds, but the enthusiasm really was overwhelming. What have I learned? Well, that Mefites are a creative bunch, that's for sure. And that a project of this size and diversity isn't exactly a cakewalk to manage. The audio part wasn't too difficult - I'm reasonably used to handling large amounts of tracks for the more obsessive of my own projects. Nor did the diversity of recording methods and locations pose any unassailable obstacles - a little reverb goes a long way. The most challenging part for me was simple administration: keeping track of parts, usernames, files, machines, versions... (Right now I'm cowering in fear of having forgotten to include or credit someone after all. I really hope I didn't.) Once all the parts were was in place I spent a considerable amount of time just comping everything together and selecting which parts of which contributions I could highlight at what point in the song. Over time I kind of started obsessing over giving everyone "equal time", but then I realized that that was rather naive and probably wouldn't render an enjoyable mix, at which point I dropped that strategy in favour of mixing just as I would a more standard rock song, with some weird bits thrown in here and there for good measure. To my knowledge, I have included everyone after all, in one way or another - you may have to hunt for some parts before you notice them, though. For instance, at some point it became apparent that I wasn't going to have the luxury of a multitrack drum part. I was sent some drums however, but with them being only 1 or 2 tracks (mono or stereo) it wasn't going to do much good for keeping an already crowded mix uncluttered. So I ended up programming a simple drum track myself, augmenting it with other people's stuff (in the case of the drum parts, mostly in the late verses leading up to the choruses). So kill your darlings, and all that. By the end I had about a few dozen plans of what might work in the context of a mix, but then, with the thing about 80% done, my computer broke down. Luckily almost, I'd say. Because by the time I installed a new system (it was the same problem as back then and it turns out it was probably a faulty motherboard IDE controller after all) I could finish it with a clear mind. You can only tinker for so long, and I had to relent at some point and just call it a song. There are some little things I still kind of regret: given the time - and a less crowded mix - I might have more emphasized the wonderful call-and-response interplay between micayetoca's melodica and cabingirl's violin in the last verse, for instance; or punctuate the song with more of the "small percussion" parts (two tambourines, a pandeiro and a shaker), or allowing more room for the more outlandish instruments such as karlos the jackal's tremoloa, verysleeping's singing saw or herrdoktor's wonderfully abrasive Moog noises. If anything, I would have allowed more breathing room for the various backing vocals, too, which were truly brilliant in their personality and diversity. But water under the bridge. In the end I just closed my eyes and mixed a song, and in the process I probably sold a lot of people short. I hope you don't mind - I had a lot of fun doing this, and I hope you like it. Thanks again to the contributors, to those who egged us on, and to cortex, who I understand will be making the raw multitracks available soon for possible remix purposes. Happy new year.

'Tis the season for secrets

kepano — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:42:57 -0800

I am looking for a fellow MeFite who is both a Daft Punk fan and proficient with (preferably) Fruity Loops and/or Reason. I'm working on a top secret project that I'd like to collaborate with someone on. Who will bite?

everybody record a cover of Elliott Smith's "Waltz #2

cortex — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:45:17 -0800

Music collaboration fun / favor: everybody record a cover of Elliott Smith's "Waltz #2". [more inside]

cortex records matthewchen is spamming

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:04:56 -0800

This is a litle weird, maybe, but so cool I wouldn't want anyone to miss it before it drops off the MeTa front page. adamrice said 'matthewchen is spamming', so I said 'there's a jangly, wistful guitarpop song somewhere in the phrase 'mathewchen is spamming'....' and cortex agreed and went ahead and recorded the song. How cool is that? I love this place sometimes.

inter-media collaboration

Julia Gill — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:00:19 -0800

Artists in every media, I'm thinking about the creative process, generating ideas for inter-media (is there such a word?) collaboration, and where abstract art originates.

I don't see that there is any history of collaborative FPPs.

snsranch — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:08:05 -0800

I don't see that there is any history of collaborative FPPs. Is there any precedence for this? Yes or no, how should one let it known that the post was a collaboration?