Hey, I know I've mentioned this before, but I want to start working on it
now: I would really like to do a community recording project. Non-musicians
you can still have some input here with production and mastering (mixing).
Largely It would be something that Fedora could use for other videos, or
ambassadors could use as background music for the booths.
Issues to tackle:
1 - Scope:
My thoughts for the project is that the the entire project would be
recorded and mastered on Fedora. Personally if someone has an effect that
doesn't meet the Fedora Packaging standards, or they're using software from
planet ccrma, or have their own samples, I don't care. I think the major
thing is that it was done/recorded on Fedora. Thoughts?
Might be cool if we have contributors do screencasts for part of their
portion of the project as promo material for the spin.
2 - Track Lists:
There is a few issues here... Personally I think instrumental music is
going to be best since Vocals can be tough to do, plus when people take
issue with songs it has something to do with vocals. Doesn't mean we can't
do it, it's just raises the standard in someways.
There's also an issue with copyright... Technically according to "Free Use"
(actual legal term) we can cover any song as long as we don't pay for
anything, or sell anything. (don't see how that'll be an issue)
But what's best is if anyone has any music that they've written themselves.
Style-wise I like Jazz (or Jazz-ish) Particularly since we could have an
extended Solo section. If we have lots of people that play odd instruments
(accordion, saw, oboe, band instruments, ect) we can have them be part of
the project with an 8 bar solo.
Doesn't mean we can't do a metal song or something epic, if someone has
written something. What are you passionate about having in a recording?
Folk music is also good since most of that was written pre 1922 and is
public domain. I'm looking for specifics, s if you got thomething throw it
out there.
3 - Album Name (or E.P. name)
All I thought of Jam and Jelly. Suggestions?
4 - Remixes
Tracks (since we'll have them) would be easy to remixes and could add an
extra track or two
5 - Orchestration and Musicians
I'm all for having this project as a democracy. If we have two guitarists,
have them both submit tracks and we can vote on if we want to use one or
the other, or both. Large part of this decision is on what tracks we move
forward with, but at the minimum I play guitar and have access to good
drummers and a bassist. So if someone else has a song, with bare-bones
orchestration we can make this work.
