Forum Week 9

Sebs work is pretty kewl. Playing around with retro technology to bring back the old sounds in a new way. People love those sounds, they have a sort of nostalgia about them, so using them in new ways deffinatly draws attention.

I really like this Milk Crate idea, its a great way to from quick collaborations, i can see this becoming like a modern studio jam session, but in the form a game. The rules are simple yet very effective

The rules...
The objective of milkcrate is to write, record and produce as much music as possible, creating a completely finished product within twenty- four hours of beginning the session
No member of the group is to leave the environment, within reason
All materials and raw sources used to create music must be explicitly non- musical
All the materials must fit inside or on a milkcrate
There is a limit of one milkcrate per person
At least one member of the group must be productive at all times
These rules are modular in nature; milkcrate sessions may have additional constraints, so long as they do not break the existing ones.

(http://milkcrate.com.au/iswhat.html)

I can imagine people doing this a sort of musical sport. As in every friday night, so changing the rules from 24 hours to something around 3 or 4 hours and perhaps allowing a set of samples for each week, and the best team or individual able to create the best judged result wins for the night. Im not sure if this happens already, if so then im not surprised. If not then there is definately oportunity for something here.