CrowdCrafting
This tongue-in-cheek fantasy is brought to you based upon the imaginary world of Rome's Revolution.
The Alternative rock group Overmind released their new single, Up The Stream today. What makes this so unusual is that the song is bundled with an App called CrowdCraft for all iOS devices, Android, the Mac and PCs. There is also a browser-based version.
The CrowdCraft App allows the listener to modify the song to suit their own taste. The song is broken up into editable passages, instruments, melody and even individual notes. Each note can be adjusted in terms of ramp, duration, intensity and quality. The user can change whole instruments. For example, in Up The Stream, there is a final passage which is a synthetic organ chord. The user could change it to a piano, harpsichord or something even wilder.
Says Overmind, “There will be three versions of each new song. Our version will be the base. The listener can fashion their own but what is most fascinating to us is they can submit their adaptations and our computers will create a true synthesized version which would be the accumulated changes merged into a single, crowd-based song.”
This new form of social media can produce mesmerizing results. Overmind played a demo version of their prior release Travelin’ in Time which was given to 100 artists and rock groups to test the methodology. The original Travelin’ in Time is a very pleasant, upbeat ditty heavy on the synthesizers. The crowd-crafted version is deeper, richer with a hint of melancholy. Frankly the mass-produced version is more haunting and I must admit I have played it over again several times.
Says Overmind, “This is just taking the Social Media revolution to the next level. All humans have a common, species-based memory and set of tastes. The CrowdCraft App simply lets them merge essentially their consciousness and taste into a mass-mind kind of communication.”
Overmind used the popular crowd-source web site Kickstarter to fund the development of the application. They told me that this merging-of-the-minds can be used in a variety of sectors including architecture, recipes, fashion, literature and so on.
“It is our hope that our App can unite all of mankind into a single consciousness and therefore minimize the distractions that individual decision-making can introduce. We want everyone to be content and enjoy the peace that comes with consensus.”
We wish Overmind luck with their new venture. Their goal certainly seems worthy.
The Alternative rock group Overmind released their new single, Up The Stream today. What makes this so unusual is that the song is bundled with an App called CrowdCraft for all iOS devices, Android, the Mac and PCs. There is also a browser-based version.
The CrowdCraft App allows the listener to modify the song to suit their own taste. The song is broken up into editable passages, instruments, melody and even individual notes. Each note can be adjusted in terms of ramp, duration, intensity and quality. The user can change whole instruments. For example, in Up The Stream, there is a final passage which is a synthetic organ chord. The user could change it to a piano, harpsichord or something even wilder.
Says Overmind, “There will be three versions of each new song. Our version will be the base. The listener can fashion their own but what is most fascinating to us is they can submit their adaptations and our computers will create a true synthesized version which would be the accumulated changes merged into a single, crowd-based song.”
This new form of social media can produce mesmerizing results. Overmind played a demo version of their prior release Travelin’ in Time which was given to 100 artists and rock groups to test the methodology. The original Travelin’ in Time is a very pleasant, upbeat ditty heavy on the synthesizers. The crowd-crafted version is deeper, richer with a hint of melancholy. Frankly the mass-produced version is more haunting and I must admit I have played it over again several times.
Says Overmind, “This is just taking the Social Media revolution to the next level. All humans have a common, species-based memory and set of tastes. The CrowdCraft App simply lets them merge essentially their consciousness and taste into a mass-mind kind of communication.”
Overmind used the popular crowd-source web site Kickstarter to fund the development of the application. They told me that this merging-of-the-minds can be used in a variety of sectors including architecture, recipes, fashion, literature and so on.
“It is our hope that our App can unite all of mankind into a single consciousness and therefore minimize the distractions that individual decision-making can introduce. We want everyone to be content and enjoy the peace that comes with consensus.”
We wish Overmind luck with their new venture. Their goal certainly seems worthy.
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