World’s First Collaborative Online Orchestra

This is something I have been waiting for a long long time. I was thinking about this project around 3 years ago and imagining its benefits. I’m a musician, I want to form a blues band and compose music. But, there’s no blues keyboard player around! Why not looking online for that player and perhaps compose and improvise together online.

YouTube™ has just released their Collaborative Online Orchestra Project. At the moment, it seems that it’s only classical music oriented. Are they going to expand the music style? is any startup ready to work on something like that? Being part of an eBluesBand would make me more than happy :) .

I would see it this way:

  1. Start a new project that has only one instrument: The Metronome
  2. As a guitarist, I decide on the scale and start improvising.
  3. I’d publish it online and wait for contributions.
  4. A vocalist, keyboardist, bassist or drummer can pickup my project and perform on it.
  5. I get notified that someone has a contribution that is pending moderation. As soon as I approve, he/she becomes a part of my band.
  6. And so on, until I decide that the track is complete.
  7. Sell it on iTunes? or publish it for free?

This is really an amazing project to work on. If you are a serious developer, you love music and willing to invest some time to work on this project, let me know! We can come up with something together.

One Response to “World’s First Collaborative Online Orchestra”

  1. Hey Elie,

    I think this would be a really great idea. I write and produce music from my desktop at home and have many times wished that myspace music had the ability to collaborate with other myspace music users.

    I think it has a lot of potential and would allow a form of musician collaboration that had never been possible in the past. Even in a city it can be hard to meet musicians, but with a site geared and focused on musician collaboration, I think, a lot of door ways could open up.

    I hope to hear more about this in the future.

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