The music evolution is here.
I’m always telling people that the best thing about Splice is not that it provides a technology for remixing music, but rather that it provides a new kind of venue for building tighter global communities through music. When you think about it, that’s pretty cool. The internet makes us almost telepathic - a thought that I’m having can be typed and trasmitted to your computer, and therefore into your brain, in a matter of seconds. This kind of technology is taken for granted by most people who have it, despite it being in it’s infancy, relatively speaking. (The internet revolution has only just begun, regardless of what my grandmothers would have told you.) It’s an amazing new tool for bringing people closer together. Music, on the other hand, is one of the oldest tools available for this same purpose. There hasn’t been a culture in the history of humanity that hasn’t had music. I think that’s significant.
To me, Splice is a shining caduceus of these two things, and I love nothing more than giving people examples of the neat things that happen when you give people some tools and a little creative breathing room. My example today starts with another long-lost Splicer, ThatCrooner. He’s a performer and singer from Barcelona, Spain. I’ve always enjoyed his unique vocal work and have been missing his contributions to the site. Lo and behold, though, he’s back, too! It’s like a Splice reunion this week (we must be doing something right!):
So, in my joy at having another vocalist come back to play, I recorded some vocal work that I’ve had stashed in my brain for a while. Typically, I am super self conscious about sharing my music online… since I don’t know a lot about recording, I’m never satisfied with how it sounds. But I had this (glaringly obvious) realization that Splice is actually MADE for sharing unfinished work. I mean, we’re here to make projects TOGETHER and not just post shiny and completed mp3s, right? Right! So then I went ahead and posted this lullaby:
As predicted and hoped, someone picked it up and did a few things to it. Rig went ahead and downloaded the vocals, pitch-corrected them in some places* and then re-uploaded them into HIS version of the song:
Which is extra lovely. So there you have it - From Spain to the USA to Canada… this little train of inspiration just keeps going. Who in the world will hear this song and remix it next, or write something else after being inspired by it? I guess you’ll have to stick around to find out, right?
* I have to say I did laugh at Gurdonark’s comment to me that “you ought to tell rig that the dissonance and unexpected key variation is often a charming benefit to a sophisticated track! 
.” And well, isn’t THAT a nice way to put it?