Making A YouTube Band
by Iain on August 13, 2008
If you play solo clips from YouTube on the same page at the same time it sounds oddly like a band (kinda). I’ve got a project on the go to try and make an interesting random YouTube band maker. But I need some help.
See what it sounds like here, and read more: http://www.crackunit.com/theband/
Sorry if the page looks funny in some browsers, I built it with iWeb to see how good it is – I’m sure the code is minging but just wanted to see if it could do the job – I’ve only tested it on Safari and Firefox 3 on Mac (shoddy I know). If the page doesn’t look like the image above I’d love to hear the details in the comments below.
8 comments
This is kind of what we did with http://walkmanproject.com/ which in hindsight falls down because it’s too flipping complicated a site and asks people to record a particular song. Doing it directly with youtube is a much simpler way to make a virtual band.
I always wanted to do a site where people can actually play together live, a virtual band in a virtual rehearsal room. All members of the band being in different parts of the world.
I’ve also been mixing with my films recently. Sounds a bit shit though:
http://floheiss.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/readymade-accidental-installation-piece-by-unknown-farmer/
by Flo.Heiss on 13/08/2008 at 9:30 am. #
You might want to check these links out too:
http://oliverlaric.com/duets.htm
http://oliverlaric.com/underthebridge.htm
http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/guitarsolo.html
by Flo.Heiss on 13/08/2008 at 9:45 am. #
I loved the ‘idea’ of the Walkman project. But as we all know getting people to do things is tough. That’s why I like the idea of these ‘found’ bands. Even though they’ll all be out of time and sound like chaos.
Flo, have you seen eJamming? http://www.ejamming.com/
They call it Skype for musicians – might be a start of your virtual band ;-)
by Iain on 13/08/2008 at 9:45 am. #
Flo – you’re a legend.
It was http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/guitarsolo.html that I saw years ago. Nice one.
Thanks mate.
by Iain on 13/08/2008 at 9:48 am. #
got my email?
by facu on 13/08/2008 at 9:38 pm. #
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ljkappas&feature=iv
Kind of similar.
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