The aim of Ear Fuzz since it’s birth has always been the sharing and appreciation of music both old and new. Today we’re widening the aim of the site to include something new – collaborative creation of music for sharing. This has spent some time in development getting it just so and we hope to watch the seeds of this blossom into something very special indeed; but, we can’t do it without your help! Below B, who masterminded the project, takes you through the details… [Junior]…
About a month or so ago, I contacted Junior with an idea: to create a URL archive of beat-mine-able instrumental jams. The hope was that the archive would serve as a springboard for an interactive communal music-making experiment. Junior was supportive, and, kind enough to offer Ear Fuzz as an outlet for the project.
Long story short, I’m in a band and we have a small studio in Brooklyn, NY. We got our first piece of studio gear in late 2005. Soon thereafter, we discovered the joy and ease of digital recording: jams, songs, street sounds, noise, conversations, etc… Over the years, we’ve improved the gear and filled up more than a few hard-drives. Rather than just let this material sit forgotten, I though it might be fun to put some of this stuff online where people can easily access it. Since Ear Fuzz readers tend to be open-minded, patient listeners, the hope is that you will take the time to browse some of the content, find some worthwhile moments, and possibly even sample and incorporate these moments into your own music.
If you do choose to work with the music, we strongly encourage you to share your creation. And, if you record additional tracking, please do share those isolated tracks so that the collaboration can continue. You can do this by emailing us or by posting uploads in the comments. We’ll then be delighted to add your music to the library. The idea of a free-flowing exchange of musical ideas is really what has us most excited. As Junior said it nicely:
Taking snippets from instrumental jams and recombining them offers endless possibilities… One idea that immediately springs to mind is getting artists to play over snippets from other contributor’s work and then saving their contributions as another isolated track. Do this with a couple of different musicians and you’ve suddenly got a whole set of layers of instrumentation all performing to the same rhythm but not necessarily to all the same parts.
So, rather than keep talking, let’s kick it off and see what happens:
Hope you dig.
More info here. Any feedback/direction is encouraged. Thanks.
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