Indaba Music- Musicians Unite

The internet’s spirit of collaboration has taken another step forward with the advent of Indaba Music. Indaba is a Zulu word for collaboration. The site is basically a social meeting spot and a virtual studio for musicians to team up and make music. The possibilities of this are exciting because it could potentially create melds of different cultures. For instance a drummer from Kenya could do a solo in a, American metal band’s song. You set up a profile and note want instruments you play, the bands that influence you, and what genres you cover. This ideally allows musicians to search for people who would ideally fit into their hypothetical song. Whether you want to use your own mixing program or the one offered on the website. The mixing program is easy to download and easy to use (although it is better if you have a little bit of background in music production). Once you start a session others can offer to join in. Periodically there are collaborations which feature 100+ artists.
For instance in a recent interview Stephen Colbert “retorted” common file use without copyright. He then said, “I hope people don’t make this into a sign,” cuing his audience to make it into a song. Indaba music picked it up and hundreds of artists picked it apart, making dance music with a periodic sampling of Stephen Colbert saying “Don’t remix this”. On a recent show of The Colbert Report Indaba co-founder Daniel Zaccagnino hand delivered some of the renditions to which Colbert further challenged his audience and Indaba users to do more remixes. Currently on Indaba home page they have the challenge and lots of Colbert quotes that’d make a great song. Communication via the internet does not necessarily have to be confined to printed documents or emails messages; it can take the form of musical communication.

http://www.indabamusic.com/