New Dawn, New Day, new life
Posted: October 4, 2008 at 5:22 pm
There certainly have been a lot of changes lately. This is a time for introspection for me personally as I begin a new life.
The focus of my world recently has been to transition to living solo which is going well. I am now living in Chesapeake, close to my office. My professional life continues to flourish along with the success of Web Teks.
I guess the biggest news is the Open Source Music Project. With more time as of late to devote to my music, it brings me great comfort – and surprisingly – others seem to enjoy it as well.
The Open Source Music Project was actually germinated during my association with a group knows at A2 in 2006-2007. Although I am obligated to leave out most of the details, A2 is an effort to launch a new kind of digital entertainment. As far as I know that is still an effort in progress.
So what the heck is open source music?
I made it up. But the concept is to allow the free use of any individual tracks as the ingredients for a new song. When you record and produce your own music it is usually a series of separate audio tracks blended together. My inspiration came from getting such different results when mixing certain tracks together and leaving some out of the mix. Some of them are not so great – but a few really shine.
On the Open Source Music Project site I encourage anyone interested to download these tracks and use them any way they like (under the Creative Commons Attribution License). If you take a listen let me know how abysmal that stuff really is. You may comment on any track on that site and if you really are a glutton for punishment subscribe to the RSS feed.
