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Here's an idea: Get a drummer to play a track. Stream that to other musicians, each of which adds their bit and streams it out to others, and finally to listeners who can hear a real-time concert played by distributed musicians. The upstream musician sadly has no feedback from the other musicians, but the variations on each track could be really fun.

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turn it into a pyramid. A famous musician plays the first track. Then it goes multi-player. Dozens or hundreds of copies are made. On each copy, a user adds her own bit, and then it's passed on to another (at random? team-based? grouped by style or ability level?), and another. You end up with dozens of pieces of music on the same basic framework. Vote on which version is the best; the winners get to record it properly alongside the rockstar who made the first track.

Bonus: you now have many variations on the same musical theme, each of which can be decomposed into tracks for each instrument. Give them to a DJ, see what she can make out of it.

I had a similar idea: Musicians upload bits of music (could be a riff, drum track, solo, vocal, whatever) and collaborate on combining them, altering parts as necessary, etc. You can then mix the bits together into a final track, get feedback on your parts, and so on.

To make money you could sell the final track on iTunes or press CDs (t-shirts?) and the site will track which musician gets what, or else just charge $10/month for access.

Yes, I was definitely thinking many outputs from one single original drum track. The voting and winners are a great idea! Half the appreciation could be what different muso's do with the idea.

Every heard of Kutiman?

Wiki [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman]

Official [http://thru-you.com/#/videos/1/]

Yeah, I love that video. Absolute work of art.

This actually sounds really cool. It could be like git but for live sounds, e.g. someone "checks out" a song, forks it, adds their bit and republishes it.

FretWars.com by @zedshaw partly does what you say. Great resource, but mostly for guitarists.

or, doing it live: chatroulette for jam sessions.

It would be live, just streamed one-way. The issue with something like chatroulette (2-way) is that you'd always be a bit out of sync, so it has to go from A->B->C->listeners, with B, C and listeners being 1 or more.

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