Showing posts with label Darren Soloman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darren Soloman. Show all posts

Sunday, September 04, 2011

Darren Soloman's collaborative music projects

Detail from the marker/music screen
 Darren Soloman is a Clio award winning composer who has written music for movies, TV ads and electronica under the name Science for Girls.

He's created two web-based projects, In B Flat 2.0 and marker/music in which he experiments with collaborative music. Each project consists of a number of YouTube videos of people playing fragments of music on various instruments. As the user clicks on them they start to play and the result is a random trance/electonica song.

I'm not a fan of either musical genre, but it is an interesting experiment.  I could see it being expanded upon, either by allowing more people to drop in snippets of music as time passes, or a randomizer that selected the snippets to activate that would yield a perpetual -- albeit somewhat monotonous -- song.