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If you record and produce your own music then you know it is usually a series of separate audio tracks blended together. My inspiration came from getting such different results when mixing my own music tracks together and leaving some parts out of the mix. I wondered what would happen if I put all the tracks on my web site and invite others to mix it their own way.
First launched as part of my private blog in 2006 The Open Source Music Project was my effort to try that “new concept” out on the Internet. Little did I know that other Internet visionaries had been a step ahead of me.
In the 1970′s Todd Rundgren was one of my favorite artist, and his Initiation album will always be in my iPod. (BTW – yes album… I owned it as a vinyl LP! ) Anyway in the early 90′s Todd was one of the first proponents of this open source music concept.
… 1993′s No World Order, consisted of hundreds of seconds-long snippets of music that could be combined in various ways to suit the listener. Initially targeted for the Philips CD-i platform, No World Order featured interactive controls for tempo, mood, and other parameters, along with pre-programmed mixes by Rundgren himself, Bob Clearmountain, Don Was, and Jerry Harrison….
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren
As I write this updated dossier on my project the band Linkin Park has released the CD “The Catalyst” and as part of the pre-release promotion they launched a MySpace contest called “Linkin Park, Featuring You”. The challenge involved making various music tracks or “stubs” as they are called available for fans to download and re-mix with the winner’s efforts appearing on the new album.
see http://www.linkinpark.com/profiles/blogs/linkin-park-featuring-you-1 I could not find the original download link but here are the tracks reposted as a podcast extra on my own effort to demonstrate this Open Source Music concept.
There is a companion podcast in iTunes of the finished mixes found here on The Open Source Music Project website.
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The ultimate reward for me is having any of my stuff used elsewhere – especially commercially. Please let me know if you post anything using audio from my tracks – I would love to link to it from here! Good luck and bless you.
Tom Anthony
The Open Source Music Project by Tom Anthony is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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