Still scrolling through craigslist in search of potential bandmates in your area? Can’t find anyone who shares your musical influences? Thanks to Indaba Music, now you can branch out and connect with other musicians in ways never before seen.
Indaba Music is an online community of musicians all connected to a highly advanced browser-based music production console. As of today, you can join a “session”, import your audio and mix everyone’s musical contributions using a super cool mixing console. Volume, panning, mute, solo… it’s all there. But that’s just the beginning.
The Indaba Music Mixing Console
Indaba Music is gearing up to release the Session Console 2.0, which will introduce complete browser-based recording capabilities. That means you can literally fire up the session console in your browser, plug in your instrument, and hit record. Add your creative touch to the community-based recording session. I will post a followup review with Indaba 2.0 launches.
Online Musical Collaboration
It’s truly amazing where this technology is going. I mean, the thought of collaborating with musicians from across the globe so effortlessly is astounding. Just from browsing through some active mixes on the site today, you can immediately get a feel for the true variety of styles and diversity of cultures represented - all within the same sessions!
There are loads of cool ways this online tool can fit into the lifestyle of musicians.
- Collaboration takes practice. This is a great way to hone your skills as a musical collaborator when you’re just starting out on your instrument, or if you’re picking up a new primary instrument.
- Maybe you don’t have the time to dedicate to a real, in-person band. Indaba gives you the opportunity to keep the excitement of jamming with others on your free time and you still keep your day job, spend time with the fam, etc.
- Real-world bands can collaborate with virtual online bands through Indaba. Spread you’re band’s influence by injecting it into the sessions of your fans. Lots of directions to take that idea.
- Expand your creative musical pallet by producing music and interacting with others from across the globe. You’re now in touch with a world of musical cultures, backgrounds, influences, genres, styles…
Where is This Going?
Beyond the creative and technological capabilities here, I’m interested to see how this type of community can evolve. Will there be internet-based “bands”, gaining popularity with fans, recording and releasing music all online? This type of new technology certainly brings an interesting twist to our centuries-old craft of songwriting.
Have any of you collaborated on Indaba Music yet?
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06/20/2009
4:24 am
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I thought it was a great story, lots of points that I agree with. I think it’s interesting how many bands whine about not getting any attention, but then don’t follow a few simple guidelines like 1) sending your CDs to the press (duh!) or 2) announcing shows with enough lead time to publish a write up. I hope articles like this will help the less-savvy groups out there.