Picture an Irish pub with several musicians sitting around a table trading songs. Each takes a turn leading with a song they love while the other follow and play along. Can we create this in the Steem environment?
Last night I jumped on 's MSP-Waves radio show to chat about this challenge for musicians in our Steem world.
A critical part of the music making/learning process is interacting with other musicians. It is so important that it can be found as an outcome in every successful music curriculum throughout the world. Imagine the most musically rich cultures of the world (West Africa, Cuba, Finland, etc.) without collaborative music making. This is at the very core of "music."
Live collaborative music making is missing in our online settings. Technical roadblocks make it extremely difficult, perhaps impossible for two musicians to collaborate in real-time over a network. But the must be a way to facilitate this or some variation in order to satisfy the need for live collaboration.
The times I have had the privilege of collaborating with musicians here in Steemit the experience has been profound, always resulting in musical productions that none of the contributors could have predicted. This collaboration is "asynchronous," meaning one musician records a part and passes it to another to build upon. There is definitely merit in this format, but how can we improve upon it??
I invite discussion. I would love to explore how we can create an environment to get up as close as possible to the live collaborative environments of playing guitars around the campfire or as session in an Irish pub. Please connect with me to get the ball rolling.
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BuckyDurddle