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NotePoets Creative Music Community

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NotePoets is an online music community centered around the NP Composer, a web-based midi sequencer and sample synth that lets teams of NP members author music tracks collaboratively. Teams compete for the top spot in weekly and monthly themed music writing challenges by submitting their Composer tracks to a community vote. The community vote determines where the track goes in the challenge chart, as well as the NP "All Time Greatest Tracks" main chart. A special disqualifying vote weeds out entries community members find too similar to existing music (like well-known commercial tracks). NotePoets is largely ad-supported, but also reserves the right to auction the IP rights to winning challenge entries to interested third parties like record labels. If the IP rights to a track get sold, the creating team members receive a share in the royalties as well as credits for writing the track.

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when I was listening to music that sounds like other music...


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PsychSplash
PsychSplash Posted: October 3, 2006, 1:33 am

Each team should get their own myspace page and sell their content through that. Add some artistic features like album cover design and you could effectively crowdsource the entire creative aspects of the album.

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rational_ideas Posted: October 3, 2006, 6:25 am

"Each team should get their own myspace page and sell their content through that."

That sort of extra functionality could easily be added. But the central draw of the site would be:

- Get online
- Find/meet your creative partners in the NotePoets community forums (which include general music discussion sections as well)
- Read the running challenge themes (e.g. "Dancin' on my cubicle desk" or "Time is slow when you stroll through in the Arctic")
- Get in your teamspace HQ and start discussing and hacking away at a collaborative music composition
- Submit your creation to the Challenge Vote, where it runs against entries from all the other teams and bubbles up or down in the Challenge Chart

This site would, if it draws enough participation, probably generate 15 to 20 original team compositions per challenge. It would be a great learning space for people who want to learn how to compose music, with an instant audience that listens, rates and crits. It would also be an attractive advertisting space for music gear companies who want to sell their audio software, software synths, sample libraries, keyboards, guitars, music learning books and so on.

 

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