mashup

Lev Manovich has an interesting piece on our 'remix era' posted at RemixTheory.net. He doesn't present a clear vision for what will come next, but he does address the way that remixes and mashups have extended, and been applied to, a broader set of cultural practices including: visual projects, software, and literary texts.

Well, after re-posting two recent Wired entries on collaborative music sites Splice and YourSpins, I scrolled a bit further down the wired music blog page to discover that they've also done brief entries on many other sites that I think are worth covering for our AZ music feature, including: NINJAM, Mix2r, JamGlue, Indaba, and eJamming.

I think we should do some further investigation and into each of these sites for AZ. Let me know if you're interested in doing a profile piece on any of them.

If you're looking for a music collaboration community that lets you get your hands dirty creating and remixing music without you having to know any audio editing software, Splice is a good way to go.

Splice

This one combines a Flash-based mixer, track library, and online social network that's similar to what JamGlue offers, although its mixer can take BPM into account, which gives you way more mixing and remixing options than JamGlue. As with that site, uploaded sounds can be embedded on pages and blogs a la YouTube, but all tracks and projects are visible to all other users and the audio quality is compressed, so pro users should try something else. To find out more, watch the site's helpful video demo.

Who it's for: Those with interest in making and mixing music in a MySpace-like environment.

Requirements: None.

Source: Wired