10/28/2004 08:03:00 AM 
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(2) The next level of music is going to be collaborative remixing and sharing. We've started to see some of the sharing happening already; people are hacking iTrip, an iPod accessory that connects the unit to car radios, and extending the broadcast range from 5ft to 40-ft, enough for a group of teens to tune into an individual's playlist, in their own cars.
http://www.engadget.com/entry/3597373383872462/
A Media Lab Europe project for wireless based music sharing via cellphones.
http://www.medialabeurope.org/hc/projects/tuna/
Engineers at Sony Labs in Paris are working on Malleable Music. This involves allowing users to share and remix a track in real time, using a handheld device like a cell phone. This transforms music from a passive activity to an active and social one. It also encourages participation, the entry cost is low, you don't need to be a musician to play. The software has sophisticated AI that thinks for you. With a technology like this, everyone gets the chance to play DJ.
http://www.csl.sony.fr/General/Publications/BibliographyItem.php?reference=tanaka%3A04c
More muscial play from Sony. Building blocks like Dominos that you arrange to create music.
It maybe some years before this technology comes to fruition, but for those interested in playing with music today, this month's Wired Magazine is giving away a CD of tracks with Creative Commons licenses. This allows users to share, remix and play with the tracks, without fear of copyright infringement.
http://creativecommons.org/wired/
NPR's story about Wired's CD.
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4129100
Today's generation of young adults have the tools to play with content in ways that previous generations never had. All creators of content now have the opportunity to encourage this play, by providing ways to manipulate it for personal use.
It doesn't take much imagination to foresee a world where you can create your own personal album of your remixes from a single artist's tracks, or to select and deselect certain scenes from a movie, to create your own "director's cut".
All created content will have value, because there will always be someone who wants to and can use it. It might meet resistance from directors and record roducers objecting to the loss of creative control, but studios and record companies will be keen to unlock the value from all their unused content, while still protecting their intellectual property.
Expect to see these tools as built-in software integrated within the next generation of high capacity, copy-protected CDs and DVDs. Possibly the discs designed for use in Blu-Ray, the DVD technology to be incorporated in Sony's Playstation 3.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/08/04/news_6104095.html
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Social Mixing Stikax
I have been a huge fan of the Ministry of Sound and a closet bedroom mixer for years and was intrigued when I saw a review for this product in Stuff magazine. It is a USB device that plugs into your computer. The user is then able to assign loops beats and video clips to buttons on the stikax using the software that is supplied with it. Each button has own properties so I can set them up the way I like. This allows me to make music and videos completely away from the keyboard which is a complete new concept in making music at the PC. The really cool part is that everything that I am doing with the stikax is recorded by the software and placed into a mixing palette for me to edit later. Then I can save it as my own mix. Also two or three users can plug into the same machine so that collaboration is possible, another first! There are so many cool features in the product like being able to cut your CD’s and Mp3 in order to create your own loops and beats and setting a session tempo so that all the loops on the stikax are matching in tempo. The tutorials in the help section are informative and detailed. I would highly recommend it to users just starting out at making music with your PC. Great fun, innovative and highly addictive.
Posted by carl barrett on 02/08/2005 08:06 AM
I have been a huge fan of the Ministry of Sound and a closet bedroom mixer for years and was intrigued when I saw a review for this product in Stuff magazine. It is a USB device that plugs into your computer. The user is then able to assign loops beats and video clips to buttons on the stikax using the software that is supplied with it. Each button has own properties so I can set them up the way I like. This allows me to make music and videos completely away from the keyboard which is a complete new concept in making music at the PC. The really cool part is that everything that I am doing with the stikax is recorded by the software and placed into a mixing palette for me to edit later. Then I can save it as my own mix. Also two or three users can plug into the same machine so that collaboration is possible, another first! There are so many cool features in the product like being able to cut your CD’s and Mp3 in order to create your own loops and beats and setting a session tempo so that all the loops on the stikax are matching in tempo. The tutorials in the help section are informative and detailed. I would highly recommend it to users just starting out at making music with your PC. Great fun, innovative and highly addictive.
Posted by carl barrett on 02/08/2005 08:06 AM
It appears you don't have Flash installed.
Ministry of sound have/are launching something called StikAx (I think that's right) which allows multiple users to mix from their pc using a joystick-like device. May be a bit gimiky but a nice idea nonetheless.