Greetings, fellow musicians.
As you might know, I'm a hobbyist composer. I am however not a lyricist, neither a singer. At times, those aspects of music doesn't matter, at others they do.
Therefore, I figured there might be some webpage allowing interaction between textwriters and composers, and any other kind of musicians, but my searches yielded no relevant results.
I then came to think that perhaps you could make such a site yourself. I've thought the idea through a few times and have come up with a general concept. I've also discussed it with some friends who thought the idea was pretty good, but seing as they themselves aren't that much of musicians, I figured I'd take the idea for display here as well.
So, the general idea is quite simple: to set up a (free) webservice which allows for various subgenres of musicians to interact with each other and request collaboration on work among each other (for example, user A composes a song and records the instrumental parts of it. He then proposes user B, who agrees to write lyrics for the song (take note that user B may in fact be more of a poet than a musician, who enjoys writing lyrics but don't write music himself. I've seen quite a few of these people). User C is then approached to record him-/herself singing user B's lyrics; this recording is then mixed together with the original composition (probably by user A). Possibly, a cello solo might be writ into the song. As it happens, user D is able to do a live recording of him playing the cello, and there we could have some really nice piece of music now.)
Apart from this, the site would also work as a display place for its users creation, allowing uploading of tracks for ranking and commenting by other users or guest visitors. High-speed download links to the tracks can also be supplied. For the guest visitors, these can contact individual musicians to propose projects to them (for example, an amateur game or film could need some music. The creator of this finds a certain musicians work fitting for his production and requests one or more original tracks. (I suppose it's only fair to allow the users to deny requesting of tracks if they so wish)).
Well, that's about it. I suppose a forum for general music-related discussion would be almost a requirement as well.
So, now I would like to get your points on this idea.
To me it seems like the concept could potentially hit the nail, but then I've thought about it for quite some time and might be blind to certain issues.
The core question is however;
does such a service already exist?
As said, I have been unable to find anything through my searches, but I can't be completely sure.
Any input is greatly appreciated, so please post your thoughts.
Finally, for possible realisation purposes, I should state that I'm decent at php and believe it lies within my skills to set up such a system. I'm however not a webdesigner, nor an artist (or very good at comming up with great ideas or solutions, for that matter
), so if anybody would be interrested in joining in, should this actually be undertaken, feel free to speak up
