Virtual Oasis - thoughts and experiences about online based music production and collaborative writing techniques

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Abstract

Online collaboration and co-writing is then the main subject of this paper and what follows is largely based on self-experiences of writing and making recordings online. This is an ethnographic study of sorts, although I must stress form the outset that it has not been written as a deliberate piece of research, as say a structured process of participant observation such as valuable work conducted in the field of music production and ethnomusicology (Porcello, T 2005 and Torino, T, 2008). My thoughts have come largely from a series of experiences of online recording which worked out and others which did not. In looking at this from a self-reflexive viewpoint I started to consider the significance of rhetorical exchange as a key element in online communication (Jackson & Wallin, 2009). My main argument, I would not like to call it a thesis, as this paper should not be taken as a blueprint for creative musical collaboration online, rhetoric is a relevant issue worth considering in creative collaborations. Before elaborating on this through a case study of works made jointly with Dub Caravan, known as ‘Virtual Oasis’, it is pertinent by way of introduction to outline a dilemma that troubles many people regarding the Internet age in which we live. In some ways this quandary confirms the value of rhetorical exchange in our contemporary lives
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal on the Art of Record Production
Issue number5
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • music
  • Production
  • Online media

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