Electronic Collaboration

Further to what I wrote yesterday about technology and how it has revolutionised music making, I have a concrete example here of what can be done easily now and would have seemed, if not impossible, too complicated and costly to be worth considering a few years ago. A while back I heard a demo on Facebook which had been written and recorded by Linton Osborne. Linton is a talented performer and songwriter who I have met once or twice. I really liked the song he had written and thought I could do an arrangement that would complement it so we discussed this on Facebook. To cut a long story short, Linton e mailed me two Wav files, his vocal track and acoustic guitar track. Fortunately he had recorded them to a click track and gave me the exact bpm of it. Using these I created a bass and drum foundation and added three guitar tracks and a tiny bit of vocal pad here and there. My vision of the song was that it would suit a retro, twangy guitar, soundtrack to a movie kind of feel. Whether that is exactly what we achieved is up to you to judge but both Linton and I were really chuffed with the way it turned out - all this without us meeting up. In fact it would have been as easy if one of us had been in New York and one in Dunfermline. Anyway, here is a link to it. See what you think.

http://youtu.be/GEtLjxLdv5o