Appendix E-J » collaboration http://www.appendixej.com the official blog of the coffee house that loves you to bits Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:06:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Twitteresting: Recording Bazaar http://www.appendixej.com/2011/05/06/twitteresting-recording-bazaar/ http://www.appendixej.com/2011/05/06/twitteresting-recording-bazaar/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 19:14:59 +0000 The Communiqué http://www.appendixej.com/?p=1428 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Did you know Everyday Joe’s has been on the Twitter for 2 years now? It’s a good place to get infos. Same with the Facebook. We pay an awful lot of attention to Twitter, and find interesting things on it, and report them to you, here.

Now, a progression of tweets – beginning yesterday afternoon and wrapping up in the wee hours of this morning – from our friend Tim Thornton:

Tim is a man who is always thinking. He has the mind of a person who starts things.

A value at the core of Everyday Joe’s is relationship and collaboration. Doing things together is how this place runs. It is how coffee gets made. It is how sound gets put through speakers at shows. People throwing their talents into a pool and seeing what grows.

The Recording Bazaar is like this, tho you pay folks money. But it is a pool of musical talent that is deep and wonderful. They will help you write songs…or come up with that string part you know would put your song on an iTunes commercial…or produce that album that will make you friends with Tom Hanks.

Or in their words:

“Why, hello there. I’m Tim. My wife and I play instruments that not everyone plays, and we play them in a unique way. People frequently ask us to play on their records when they’re looking for an indie sound and an interesting approach.

We will always love working together in recording studios with producers, engineers, and other artists, but we’ve figured out that we can do more work and bring more value to our clients if we work remotely. A good home studio and a fast internet connection go a long way.

One day we said to each other, “hey, we could do this for anyone. Let’s make a website.” Then we said “OK.”

After doing quite a few projects and creating several happy and repeat clients through our fist website, StringOverdubs.com, we started thinking about our workload. We started thinking about our many musician and engineer friends who would be a great fit for our clients.

While a lot of musicians are doing remote recording (or virtual recording, if you want to be more sci-fi), we felt a need for a strong connection point online.

We’ve carefully selected a group of people who not only capable musicians/engineers, but also remarkable people who are fun to work with in creative things.”

Or in sci-fi talk:

“It’s the year 2011. Robots are quietly honing their cultural war on planet earth.

The people haven’t yet realized the danger, even though as an online minority they have to type near-indecipherable letters into websites to verify their humanity every time they post a classifieds ad or reset their email password. The Mechanization is nearly complete.

Only one hope remains: the most human of all endeavors, the arts. But The Mechanization has been busy coding software to capture and approximate the sounds of violins, acoustic guitars, and yes, even voices.

One rag-tag, fugitive crew of human artists has cordoned of a robot-free zone in a corner of the world wide web: the rebels known as Recording Bazaar.

As a protest against the robot conquest of art, Recording Bazaar artists use the internet against The Mechanization to run an open market of collaboration with other humans in the creation of actual art. Joined by their zany robot-rebel friends (the ever-rebellious Electric Guitar and the brilliant but conflicted Logic Pro) they struggle against a digitized and passionless future.

Will you support the rebellion and hire a Recording Bazaar collaborator to keep your art human?”

 

We suggest supporting the rebellion. We doubt thou will regret it.

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Last week, Enter The Worship Circle: Fourth Circle was released. It is one giant collaboration between Ben, & Robin Pasely, Jacob & Lily, Aaron Strumpel, The Blackthorn Project, and the audio engineering prowess of Dave Wilton (aboyandhiskite). A giant collaboration between those folks is most likely some sort of monumental feat. And by monumental, I do mean it could deserve a giant statue of itself.

Mr. Strumpel – being the dear that he is – has shared a track from the album with the appendix. Please enjoy “Give Me Your Hand.” It features a glockenspiel, people. Glockenspiel!

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