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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14 2006 1:00 PM

GarageBand plus MySpace equals SpliceMusic.com

Submitted by applextrent

Edited by applextrent

Tags: splicemusic, MySpace, Garageband

SpliceMusic.com is a website that combines the social elements of MySpace spliced with Apple GarageBand software like capabilities. The site grants users the ability to produce, mix, and listen to music all within a web browser with no additional software required.

When asked about what the hell SpliceMusic actually is, CEO Wendell Davis III stated:

If Apple's GarageBand, MySpace and Creative Commons all bought each other drinks, then came back to MySpace's place and made sweet love on the plush couch, Splice would be the love child.

It's a mashup community -- it basically embraces all of the "infinite album" concepts that a lot of artists are really on about right now -- you can make music right there on the site, you can remix it right there on the site -- EVERYTHING is remixable, everything is fluid and able to mash into everything else. We designed it that way.

As Wendell alluded, Splice uses Creative Commons licensing for all the content site members create. This means that users actually still own their content.

While the site is still in its infancy, it is still worthy of being checked out.

Comments

PointBlank

New York, NY

November 2004

SEP 14, 2006 01:12 PM

Akrasia

Ireland

August 2004

SEP 14, 2006 01:53 PM

that site looks very cool.

I love Garage Band!

Cassiel

Aurora, CO

September 2004

SEP 14, 2006 02:54 PM

yikes.

mahasiddha

I'm lost

September 2006

SEP 14, 2006 04:15 PM

i have been into open-source collaborative art for years and years, so it's great to see an effort like this take off. i think as projects such as this gain more traction, the shackles binding intellectual property in a paranoid deathgrip will ease and subside, at least a bit. yay!

if you feel like this is a losing battle and that only wee ones are doing this sort of thing, take an encouraging glance at the Brian Eno / David Byrne CC / mashup re-release of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts:

http://bush-of-ghosts.com/remix/bush_of_ghosts.htm

Mahasiddha

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

SEP 14, 2006 04:30 PM

Cassiel said:
yikes.

What, stunned by another case of "technology" giving "amateurs" the ability to produce work that "should be left to professionals" because of the amount of "crap" that is likely to be produced?

This, by the way, is pretty awesome, if it works as well as the hype suggests.