[Fedora-music-list] Re: Some notes from a cool meeting at RH today

[Steven Salevan]

I think that this derivation handling might be one of the big keys to 
the whole system here.  Sometimes, slight variations in a track can make 
all the difference, and it's one of the areas where collaboration and 
community criticism can come into play.  Listen to some of Brian 
Wilson's Pet Sounds sessions to get an idea of how many different takes 
were made of each particular musical line and how many of these pools of 
takes had to be chosen from and mixed into the final project.  Music 
isn't nearly as clean as software is in terms of black and white 
improvements, and most of the musicians around here that I've talked to 
consider the concept of a 'revision' of a track or an 'update' to be 
pretty ludicrous.

 From experience, it's as hard as anything to choose exactly which take 
of a musical line should go into the final mix, and with a system like 
this, you could ask other people's opinions and get the kind of 
assistance that you'd pay a producer and a recording engineer large sums 
of money to do.  This would be one of the things that'd draw small 
artists into the fray, as most small acts can't afford the kind of 
advice and expertise that a community could provide.  "With many ears, 
all out-of-tune guitars stay on the pitch", perhaps.

As Luke, Greg, and Adrian said, there will be more interesting stuff to 
ruminate on tomorrow.
-Steve Salevan
ssalevan at redhat.com

Luke Macken wrote:
> Instead of providing a central colloboration server to manage song/track
> revisions, I think it should be designed around handling derivations 
> (while
> keeping a solid audit trail of creators and licenses, of course).
>
> There was much brainstorming yesterday, and there is definitely going 
> to be
> more tomorrow, so hopefully we'll be able to add some more context to 
> this initiative in the near future.
>
> luke
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