Ahoy! I was Away From Here for a couple days, so time to delve more into what we are expecting of each other for Phase II, the mixing of the submitted sounds.
First up, and super important, I want to re-state that I'm trying to be more of a coordinator than a dictator here, so my ideas are by no means definitive. That said, here's what I was basically envisioning for the second half: that everyone combs through the submitted sounds and re-fashions them into a single track, which then becomes part of a semi-coherent bandcamp album. Now, we're talking ambient music here, so tracks don't have to be four-minute singles... but they should be more compact than, say,
Thursday Afternoon.
As a practical matter, vanilla bandcamp accounts have a max upload size of 291MB per file, so maybe that's a good limitation to set? (that's about... maybe roughly 17 minutes that at the 24/48 we should all be working in.)
I also say, as advice that I myself need: the mixing is a good time to exercise restraint, and hone in on best ideas/sounds, instead of just letting everything drift on forever.
If you do have a couple tracks/disparate ideas, I'd suggest fitting them into a medley of sorts, pivoting from one cloudy scene to the next.
shikawkee has offered to do some mastering on all the submitted tracks to give them some sonic coherence, so that should enhance the idea of listening to an album that hangs together.
And then, if you've got an idea for a second track, or a extended version of your main idea, maybe hang onto it... maybe for your own soundcloud (or etc.) usage, or, if things work out (and there's demand), maybe we could do a companion volume of alt. cuts + long mixes... bandcamp does allow infinitely-long albums, so we could really go to town with, like fifteen hour long tracks for a real endurance version!
Anyway, that's basically what I was thinking, but feel free to counter/bounce ideas around.
