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 ArtistServer  Monday, May 25, 2009 11:05:14 PM
Run Your Own Remix or Music Project at ArtistServer.com
ArtistServer provides a music project management system to assist you in creating and managing four types of music projects, including:
Visit the Music Projects section on ArtistServer: http://www.artistserver.com/projects/
In order to participate, people simply need to join ArtistServer. We offer 'Freeware' accounts which allow up to 5 songs to be hosted on the site. In addition, we offer an upgrade account which allows up to 300 songs to be hosted. ArtistServer does not charge a fee for your music project, we only limit you to creating music projects for music you own the rights to. We do not allow illegal remixed material and encourage artists to avoid sampling music protected by copyrights. More info here: http://www.artistserver.com/projects/ Tips on how to run a remix project here: http://www.gideonmarken.com/index.cfm/blog/2143/How_to_run_a_Remix_Project 
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ArtistServer Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 7:16:09 PM
How to run a Remix Project
A Remix Project is a Great Way to Promote Yourself and Your MusicIf you are interested in running remix projects, the following should help you get started and get the most out of your remix project. AritstServer.com now offers a means to run your own remix projects. This feature provides you a set of tools to manage participants, a site the promote the project, and easy to use admin tools to manage the details of your project, like start and stop dates, terms, and sign-up management. What is a Remix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix - A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing the equalization, dynamics, pitch, tempo, playing time, or almost any other aspect of the various musical components. Some remixes involve substantial changes to the arrangement of a recorded work, but many are subtle, such as creating a "vocal up" version of an album cut that emphasizes the lead singer's voice. A song may be remixed to give a song that was not popular a second chance at radio and club play, or to alter a song to suit a specific music genre or radio format. Remixes should not be confused with edits, which usually involve shortening a final stereo master for marketing purposes.Remix Projects Even if you aren't creating electronic music, running a remix project or simply allowing others to remix your music is a great way to promote your music and yourself as a band/artist. You may feel that your music isn't 'remixable,' but chances are, it is, remixing works across all genres. There are many ways a remix project can function, but the most common is as follows. You write a song and record it, then you take the separate tracks from the recording and save them as WAV files, or convert them to high bit rate mp3 files. Be sure to not include effects, you'll want to make these files 'dry.' You now have a 'sample pack' which you can zip up w/ a 'ReadMe' file inside that contains copyright info and any rules about the project. Next, you upload the zipped up samples to a Web site, then get ready to do some promotion. After a period of time, you can select a winner, or just let the project play out for years. After the remix project is over, you should keep it online with all the songs. This way the project can continue to serve as a promotional tool for not only you, but also the artists who participate. Preparing a Song for a Remix Project While it is possible for people to take a completed/mixed song, lift their own samples from it, and create a remix, this isn't really remixing, it's sampling. In order to 're-mix,' an artist/producer needs access to the raw elements that were used to create the song (or anything else being remixed). The following is some information to help you prepare those raw elements so the remix artists have quality material to work with. The basics of samples:
Remix Sample Pack Preparation Tips:
Once you have your sample packs ready, you'll need a place to store them online. Below is a list of file hosting services, with the top two being the best choices. The reason they are the best is because your files do not expire, they have URLs, they are easy to use, and the download process is painless. While ArtistServer provides music and remix project hosting, we do not host your sample files. We do provide an easy way to add download links to your files and providing them to participants.
Before you start, you should have a plan or reason for your remix project. Is this a new release you are promoting? Maybe the launch of a new collective? Possibly you are looking to get B-sides created for a 12in release? Or, maybe you just want to dive in to the whole remix, mashup and sample scene. Whatever the reason, your project may not go anywhere unless you actively promote it and have a plan. Web promotion ideas and methods is a whole different discussion, so we'll leave that out for now. Before you do the promotion, setup your Remix project page or site. Artists with upgraded accounts at ArtistServer.com can create these in the My Account area of the site, under Music Projects. This would be a good time to work out the 'terms and conditions' for our project. Be sure to define how the remix artist can use their remix, for example: can they post it online or on P2P networks, can they put it on their own CD, what will the copyright or Creative Commons license be for the remixes. Are there any rules as to how the remixes should be titled (some artists want their name in the song title). Don't try to dictate too much control though, you'll find that having these people promoting their own remixes creates another wave of promotion for you, possibly bigger than the one you created. At ArtistServer, we provide a general set of terms and conditions for you to start with, feel free to modify them how you like. Once you have your promotion plan, the sample packs, and maybe even some banner ads created for your project, you'll be ready to announce the project on forums, blogs, your site, places that allow news releases posted about independent music, and fliers in your local clubs and appropriate stores. You'll want to include a link to your remix project Web page, so be sure to create your project before printing fliers. Contest Option: Some people run their projects as contests, where they'll pick the top 3, or the 'best one,' and present the artist with some prize. This is a great way to stimulate interest in your project if artists haven't heard of you. When there's no direct outcome for a project, you may find it difficult to attract remix artists. If this is your case, then a contest might be the only thing that will get your project off the ground, you could even offer a gift certificate from a site like amazon.com. ArtistServer provides a means to select any number of winners for your remix project. Keep Promoting: As the remixes come in, post comments, give feedback, and get the conversation going. Once you have a few on the site, you can do a second round of promotions at all the sites you first announced the project at. Let people know that there are some cool remixes to be heard, that the project is still in progress, and that it's not too late to give it a try. When doing your promotional runs, be sure to monitor the threads on the forums you post at and reply to everyone so they see that you aren't a spammer. Many people get this part wrong, they forget to communicate with people and simple spam the Web with information about their project. Concluding the Remix Project: At this final stage, you can either leave the project open, or you can close the project, so no others can sign up. From here, you could do a few cool things, like release a remix album, promoting the remixes on an online station, sending out a Cdr of the project to your radio stations that support independent music, creating a CD using an online service like Mixonic.com or CafePress.com, or do another round of promoting, presenting the 'best of' to people. Getting remixed is fun, it shines a new light on your music, it creates connections between people and genres, and it's an excellent way to promote your music and yourself as an artist/band. Enjoy, and keep in mind, these aren't rules, these are suggestions and ideas you can use to help ensure you have a successful remix project. Feel free to ask questions and post your own tips.
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Mobile - Web - Media Thursday, Apr 06, 2006 1:07:53 PM
Remix Video, Remix Your Life, Remix the World I see the progression into video and video remixing as an explosion in self expression for humanity. It's a self realization of what's going on, allowing life to see more of itself - which is what learning and sharing information is all about. It gives us perspective as to what 'normal' is or what 'extreem' is, and since this expands across all borders, it reveals our cultural boundries. This is what the progression of humanity has been about all along - and now/soon, the degree and magnitude of this will greatly increase. We have more people online, with better connections, and more sites and services providing unfiltered publishing of personal content every month. Add to that the ability for those people to 'remix' the world before them as they choose... and you have yourself a revolution in entertainment. Certainly I'm being a bit ideal about this, but when you consider how media shapes the world, especially here in the US, you have to wonder what happens when "WE" are the media. Now think about everyone being able to remix all of that... and you have the Web and an exciting new facet of entertainment. There's no reason why everyone shouldn't have their own 'station' that streams/collages/remixes text/photos/video/data from their own collection with the same media types out on the Web. The end result would be a non-linear audio-visual collage built from your interests and experiences blended possibly with your friends media, or media from a certain site - or a certain keyword search, or media you pay to access so your station is cool. Why would you want this? Because it would be streaming to your own TV/screen - or it would be flowing into a networked 'poster' on the wall - maybe you have a few of these posters and each one is set to generate and pull content about each of your favorite bands or actors or places. Interactive and generative media environments appear to be the destiny for entertainment because our relationship with technology is shifting from passive to empowering:
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Internet TV services What about Copyright? Yes, that's going to be a tricky issue. How do we make the transition with the old school media companies. How do we help them discover how to monetize their media in new and interesting ways? We need to address the issue of copyright as these services and concepts grow. You can already see issues forming around YouTube.com. While a few old school media companies are starting to embrace YouTube, others don't want to be a part of it, possibly because they don't know if they're loosing control. Copyright issues tend to lead to court cases - so I have created a new slogan for media sites who might have copyright violations on their sites: Use me, don't sue me! Pure and simple... If you are a MegaCorp media company, call up the site/service and ask how you can participate, ask how 'we' can monetize it, ask if you can see the detailed stats for the items in question, link to it, talk about it, etc. If the only thing you can do is have a lawyer smash the opportunity, there's a chance your company won't be much of a player in the next stage of media and entertainment. RemixWorld.com One of the reasons why I'm writing about this, is that it's a space I'm very interested in. Over the last 6 months, I've been working out an idea based around remixing media in intersting ways. I already owned RemixWorld.com - but picked up RemixSystem.com, RemixServer.com and RemixChannel.com as potential names to use for this idea. I can see now that the space is already bubbling, that I'll either need to get this concept moving, or possibly approach one of the current players with my plans. Two of the sites I listed above are here in San Diego; veoh.com and vmix.com, and neither are playing the remix angle yet.
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Mobile - Web - Media Monday, Sep 26, 2005 12:41:35 PM
What if the world was remixed? What if you could participate? What if the world was remixed?What if the world remixed itself? What if the world remixed your life? What if the world remixed your life whith others? What if you could participate? RemixWorld.com - taking remixing to a new level - recontextualize the past, with the present and mix it with imagination - life is art NOTE: I am looking for business partners to join me in launching RemixWorld as a new form of entertainment. I have diagrams illustrating how this system will work, how if fits on top of MediaServer System (which is what ArtistServer.com runs on), and I'm currently in the process of documenting the system for pitching to obtain startup capital. I can't provide too much information online as to what this is or what it will do, but I can give a few indications. RemixWorld will serve as a portal for RemixChannels which are generated from the RemixSystem. The RemixSystem is a multi format remixing platform which will generate RemixChannels in a very interesting way. This is going to be hot. I get so jazzed when I talk about how it works and what it will do. I see this as a foundation for a new way to browse and consume content on the Web. I feel that that once a service and system like this is in place, that it could grow into a creative platform for many uses. Add to this a powerful API for users to extend and build upon, and we may actually have a doorway into 'interactive TV.'
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ArtistServer Wednesday, Jul 27, 2005 11:08:33 AM
20 Ways to Maximize Your Exposure on ArtistServer - Pt. 3.5 of 4 We're picking up the "20 Ways to Maximize Your Eposure" article at number 16 - but I wrote too much today, so I have to break this into 2 separate posts. If you have any questions / comments or ideas - just post a comment or send me an email. --------------------- 16)Use the "Song Linker" to generate links to your songs – When you are in the My Account area of ArtistServer – click on 'Songs and Ringtones' from the main menu and you'll see an option called “Song Linker.” If you click on this, a popup window will open providing you with a cool tool for generating links to any of your songs. Not only that, the Song Linker generates links in HTML, links w/ buttons, and links in BBCode (used on most forums). My favorite is the links with buttons in BBCode – this way I can simply copy and paste the link into a post on a forums to announce a new song. The post then displays the song title and the standard play and download buttons from ArtistServer.com. 17)Run a remix project or contest – Even if you aren't creating electronic music, there's some good reasons why you should consider running a remix project or simply allowing others to remix your music. Some of you may feel that your music isn't 'remixable,' but you are wrong, remixing works across all genres. What is a remix project? There are many ways a remix project can function, but the most common is as follows. You write a song and record it – then you take the separate tracks from the recording and save them as WAV files – or convert them to high bit rate mp3 files. Be sure to not include effects – make these files 'dry.' You now have a 'sample pack' - which you can zip up w/ a “ReadMe” file inside that contains copyright info and any rules about the project. Next – you upload the zipped up samples to ArtistServer – or any Website – then get ready to do some promotion. Please note that there's a lot more you could do when preparing samples and your sample pack. For example, providing the BPM, making sure the samples are rendered at the pitch they're used, making sure the DC offset is taken care of, etc. The idea is to go give these people great source material so they can create great tunes. Before you start, you'll need a plan, a reason why you are running a remix project. Is this a new release you are promoting? Maybe the launch of a new collective? Possibly you are looking to get B-sides created for a 12in release? Or, maybe you just want to dive in to the whole remix, mashup and sample scene. Whatever the reason, your project will not go anywhere unless you actively promote it and have a plan. But... how do you run a remix project? Once you have your promotion plan, the sample packs, and maybe even some banners created for your project, you'll be ready to announce the project on forums, blogs, your site, places that allow news releases posted about independent music, even on fliers in your local club. You'll want to establish a Web page for the project and use this as a home base for your sample packs, the remixes that come in, any reviews about the project or songs and links to your site and all the sites of the artists who participate. In order to help people link back – make a button – the standard size is 88x31 pixels. I know, it's a very small button – but this is how it works, and if you make it big, people won't use it. Go with the standard to ensure the most mileage, make it readable, and if you want to go all out, make one in black, white, and two or three other colors. This way, people can find a button that works best for their site. Some people run their projects as contests – where they'll pick the top 3, or the 'best' one and present the artist with some prize. This is a great way to stimulate interest in your project if artists haven't heard of you. When there's no direct outcome for a project, you may find it difficult to attract remix artists. If this is your case, then a contest might be the only thing that will get your project off the ground. As the remixes come in, add them to your site along with some comments. Once you have a few on the site, you can do a second round of promotions at all the sites you first announced the project at. Let people know that there are some cool remixes to be heard, that the project is still in progress, and that it's not too late to give it a try. When doing your promotional runs, be sure to monitor the threads on the forums you post at and reply to everyone so they see that you aren't a spammer. Many people get this part wrong, they forget to communicate with people and simple spam the Web with information about their project. If you do this, not only will your project fail, but you might even tarnish your reputation. Concluding the project – At this final stage, you'll close the project and notify all participants that they can now access all the songs online at the project page. From here, you could do a few things like: release a remix album, promoting the remixes on an online station, sending out a Cdr of the project to your radio stations that support independent music, creating a CD using an online service like Mixonic.com or CafePress.com or just give them away for free. Getting remixed is fun – it shines a new light on your music – it creates connections between artists, fans and genres – and it's an excellent way to promote your music and yourself as an artist/band. Some last thoughts – Be sure to define how the remix artist can use the remix – for example: can they post it online or on P2P networks, can they put it on their own CD, what will the copyright be for the remixes and if there are any rules as to how the remixes should be titled. Don't try to dictate too much control – you'll find that having these people promoting their own remixes creates another wave of promotion for you – possibly better than the one you created. ------------- Please see the next blog posting for items 18-20.
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