Metafilter Music Collaboration #2 progress report

February 10, 2009 12:46 AM

Some of you may remember this thread (from last April!) in which I suggested an Exquisite Corpse-style Massive Mefi Collaboration. This project has been inching along, in the background while most people were asleep, ever since. I am now done with the "collection" phase; this post is to remind any stragglers that were still thinking about wrapping anything up that the time to do that is now.

This isn't a call for new stuff (but see below), but if you've got an assignment from months ago that you've forgotten about and would like to finish and submit, I'll take 'em up through the end of February.

In March I hope to wrangle them all together somehow and hopefully we'll have something to listen to by next April. I'd also like to put files online so that everyone can make their own mix but I'm not sure how to do that quite yet; comment below if you have any thoughts on this.

We've got a total of 20 tracks from 20 MeFites -- over 50% of those that expressed interest turned something in, which I think is pretty good.

New Stuff: I'm not going to send out anything else. If you want to contribute something and you're brand new to this entire idea, feel free, but you're even more on your own than anyone else. It's (mostly) in C Major and 110 bpm (here is a metronome beat). I'll take stuff through the end of February.

Um...that's all I can think of right now.
posted by Karlos the Jackal (9 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite

As a proud contributor to this MeFiMu collab, I'd like to say that I'm just happy as hell to hear that the ship is still afloat. Looking forward to hearing the results, and thanks, Karlos.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:53 AM on February 10, 2009


I am continually amazed that this is still creeping along. Rock on. In any case, if we want to share files over an FTP or whatever, I've got (this is Dreamhost, so maybe take it with a grain of salt) virtually unlimited disk space and bandwidth to spare.
posted by uncleozzy at 11:48 AM on February 10, 2009


Man. I cannot wait to hear this.
posted by ORthey at 10:24 AM on February 11, 2009


It was cool, in a broken telephonish way, playing along to the previous submission (which I'm guessing was uncleozzy doing an awesome Edge impersonation) that was sent to me. But apparently I was the last one in the chain so I'm sad that no one gets to play along to mine.
Also, I had completely forgotten about this until K the J's MeMail a few days ago.
posted by chococat at 3:17 PM on February 11, 2009


Band name: "K the J's MeMail."
posted by ORthey at 4:11 PM on February 11, 2009


It's alive, ALIVE! Way to go Karlos!
posted by snsranch at 5:01 PM on February 11, 2009


This is awesome. Definitely looking forward to hearing three or four adjacent submissions at a time.

P.S. Hey, chococat--what key was it in by the time it got to you? When it reached me it was in D, or maybe G. (I went with D.) I guess it makes total sense that the telephone effect would follow the circle of fifths, but it's still cool to see it happen...
posted by equalpants at 12:15 AM on February 12, 2009


equalpants -- chococat was on a different "thread" than you were -- I think his stayed in C the whole time while yours got pretty weird.

I would have rather had just one long thread but it would have taken, like, three years to get it done. It splits up immediately and has a couple of other branchingsas well.

I will put up a flowchart at some point.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 1:45 AM on February 12, 2009


uncleozzy doing an awesome Edge impersonation

No way, totally not me. That track was way too sloppy and hacked together to have been me.

What, you say I wouldn't have heard it otherwise? Pshaw.
(Okay fine. But I really wanted to record an accordion track. I had a pretty neat polka-ish bit worked out, but in the end I'm just not yet nimble enough on the instrument to keep up with oom-pah at 110bpm for 2-3 minutes.)

posted by uncleozzy at 5:27 AM on February 12, 2009


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