SawubonaTV @CeBIT - Tag 4

Comment

Comment by Carsten Trotzkowski on April 21, 2009 at 12:24pm

@Dieter and @Sawubona Project Team:

...pardon me, but I'm quite keen on your response. Do we now have a musical aim

- in the form of a defined CD outline draft
- in the form of a described target audience

or will musicians still invest their time and ressources "into the blue"?

:-| Carsten |-:

Comment by Conny on April 18, 2009 at 9:07pm

Hi together,
is there something real in what Carsten is writing. I, as a hobby musician try to give my best and i think it would be really good to mix the cd with names and still "no names" . Happy to hear from Manuela and Dieter and all others.
conny

Comment by Carsten Trotzkowski on April 17, 2009 at 8:30pm

Moin, folks,

I believe Andreas has filtered the most critical information from all interviews.

To my eye we should even dig deeper for one level:

1) & 3) Indeed, the humanitarian motivation and the communication concept are really good on display and properly defined. Still, in my opinion, you have many guidelines of how-to.start and where-to-start. What's crucial and missing, is the where-to-go. In the musical sense.
I mean you want to produce a product that sells best to gain donations as much as possible. If it's only a few month left to build some music, it should be time now to start to focus. On whatever is most likely to be successful. Which leads to:

2) Do you really still want to go on to experiment right through all kind of styles, lineups and arrangements? Or do you know enough by now about what's feasible and likely to fit together?
What is the target audience we are aiming at? The "oldie" lovers that are addicted to famous names, or the today's-avarage-taste-listerner that will be offered modern and some "not-easy-listening-music-with-a-message"? In the end, you might not be able to mix up everything from classics- musical to punk, from hobby-musician to rock-legends, from produced-by-mp3-mixups to proper studio pre-productions.

=> I strongly believe you should give all participants a real chance to substantially contribute, because you will let them know what the music-target is, rather than continue to let them "bring along what you like".
=> Therefore, the musical judgement team should be asked now what the direction will be
=> It might be advisable to adopt marketing strategies for the end product (e.g. teh CD) quite soon (you know you have some expertise at hand) end derive the musical requirements, and thus define what musicians should contribute exactly to really join forces.
=> I believe we are out-of-time for any "open-source-like" approach for music collaboration.
=> Of you'll have to be honest now to most of us and say "thank you so far, we'll now let the pro's take over control".

Build it all on solid grounds.

:-) Carsten (-:

Comment by Andreas Schwall on April 17, 2009 at 11:26am

Cool video. But what's crucial (start player at "4:30"):

1.) Solid concept. Properly founded. Properly laid out. Clearly understood and financed.
2.) Pulling together all the music, compiling it to a CD, mixing it, mastering it.
3.) Focus in terms of, who it wants to help or benefit and what it wants to accomplish!


We all should keep these major points in mind.
Ken, thank you for clarification!
:
==> annotation to #2 "..........release it, distribute it, collect the money and bring it to the place of destination"

Yes, we can!!