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Indaba Music
Type Privately Held
Launched February 2007
Founders Matt Siegel, Dan Zaccagnino, Mantis Evar, Jesse Chan-Norris, Chris Danzig
Headquarters New York City
Area served World
Industries Music and Technology
Employees 21
Website www.indabamusic.com

Indaba Music is a web-based company that lets musicians collaborate and make music online. Indaba has a mixing console that lets musicians edit their music in private and public sessions. The site also hosts remix competition with popular musicians. Its members span all genres and live around the world.

Company info

Overview

The company's website contains a social network and suite of collaboration technologies for musicians. The site makes it possible for musicians in different places to find each other and make music online.[1] Indaba also launches remix contests with prominent artists including Mariah Carey, Yo-Yo Ma, and Third Eye Blind, and others.[2][3][4][5] During the summer of 2009, Indaba launched their Session Console 2.0, which allows musicians to collaboratively record, edit, and mix tracks online. The relaunch coincided with a new library of Creative Commons-licensed audio loops and sounds that Indaba solicited from its community.[6]

Membership on Indaba Music is free, however Pro and Platinum levels are available and include increased storage and enhanced functionality. [7]

History

Indaba was founded in 2005.[8] Indaba's website, www.indabamusic.com, was launched in February 2007.[9] Indaba is a Zulu word for community and collaboration and was chosen because the platform is designed as a way to meet new people and share ideas to create music.[10] The founders came up with the idea for Indaba after starting a non-profit label in college as a means to provide new opportunities for student artists and give them greater exposure. That experience led them to two ideas that were 1) the way the connectivity of the internet has given artists increased access to fans (and vice versa) and to each other, and 2) the spread of cheap digital production technology (in the form of inexpensive but high quality software and hardware).[11]

Networking and Collaboration

Profiles and Search

Indaba users have profiles that describe their background, tastes, and interests (meet people, collaborate online, get hired, gig/jam offline, etc.). Featured sessions and a search function allow users to find each other. Messaging and comment boards are available for communication.

Sessions

Any musician can start a session and invite members of the Indaba community to join. A session provides musicians with a space and platform to collaborate with others. Members of a session can upload and download tracks, as well as do basic editing and mixing with the Indaba online console. Communication is possible through messages, a discussion board dialogue, a live chat feature and a conference call hosted by Indaba. Sessions can be public (open to anyone in the community) or private (only open to those invited).[12]

The session owner can search for other users to join the session by using metadata such as influences, crafts, instruments and the types of collaborations they are interested in participating in (paid only, etc). Similarly, members can search for sessions to join by entering information about the types of sessions they are interested in participating in.[13]

In-Song Commenting

When a user selects a track on Indaba, a music player pops up on the bottom of the screen. The music player displays a waveform and members have the ability to comment along the waveform in order to refer to specific moments in time. Members use this feature both to give feedback to other musicians as well as to make comments on their own tracks such as still working on these harmonies or to mark key and time changes.[12]

Recommendations

Using a technology from EchoNest (an audio company out of MIT Media Labs), Indaba recommends its musicians to one another based on their listed skill levels, influences, instruments, location, and previously recorded content.[14]

Creative Commons License

When Indaba members upload tracks to an Indaba session, they can choose to reserve all rights, OR they can select a Creative Commons license for the track. The Creative Commons license they choose determines how other musicians on the site are allowed to creatively use their music.[15] This may, for example, mean that artists are allowed to creatively use another work as long as it is not used commercially or that a musician may use another work but only in its original form.

Remix contests and sessions for artists like Rivers Cuomo (Weezer), The Crystal Method, and Carmen and Camille are creating new material that is often licensed under Creative Commons.[16]

Assorted Press

Artist Collaborations
Indaba Music has been noted in the press for collaborations with popular artists including John Legend, Rivers Cuomo, Mariah Carey,[17] Third Eye Blind,[18] and Yo-Yo Ma. During these collaborations, users can access the stems from songs of these artists without paying for licensing. Time Magazine's website featured a video with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in which he discusses many of his duets including his duet contest hosted by Indaba Music.[19] Rivers Cuomo of Weezer was quoted in an article in July of 2009, stating: “It’s [Indaba Music] like a simplified version of any of these complex professional recording programs that no one like me knows how to use,” said Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, who agreed to endorse the program although he says he normally refuses such requests. “It’s going to open the door for a giant population of musicians out there.”[20]

Assorted Press and Music/Tech Coverage

Interviews

See also

References

  1. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Nettwerk Music Group and Universal Music Canada Tap Indaba Music for New Crowdsourced Album Model - International Business Times"]. Ibtimes.com. 
  2. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Mariah Carey Remix Contest"]. Indaba Music. 
  3. ↑ Downs, David. [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Yo-Yo Ma Brings Remix Culture to Music's Ivory Tower"]. Wired.com. 
  4. ↑ Reuter, Annie. [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Third Eye Blind Comeback - Stephan Jenkins Interview"]. Marie Claire. 
  5. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Featured Programs"]. Indaba Music. 
  6. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Music Continues To Grow"]. Creative Commons. 2009-09-14. 
  7. ↑ Rao, Leena (2009-07-09). [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Music Improves Collaboration Through Revamped Digital Music Workstation"]. Techcrunch.com. 
  8. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Incompatible Browser"]. Facebook. 
  9. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Music Announces Digital Audio Workstation Built on Sun Microsystems' JavaFX Platform. | Technology > Software Services & Applications from"]. AllBusiness.com. 2009-06-03. 
  10. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba | Definition of Indaba at Dictionary.com:"]. Dictionary.reference.com. 
  11. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Music"]. Creative Commons. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Chartier, David (2009-01-14). [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Music: social networking meets online jam sessions"]. Arstechnica.com. 
  13. ↑ comment. [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Supposed to Know - Session"]. Indaba Music. 
  14. ↑ Kincaid, Jason (2009-01-13). [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba: A Music Collaboration Hub That Can Build Your Band For You"]. Techcrunch.com. 
  15. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Music"]. Creative Commons. 
  16. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Music Continues To Grow"]. Creative Commons. 2009-09-14. 
  17. ↑ Kerri Mason (2008-07-12). [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Mariah Carey single at center of online contest"]. Reuters. 
  18. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Third Eye Blind Throws Remix Contest for Unreleased Album | Listening Post"]. Wired.com. 2008-09-15. 
  19. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Latest Videos"]. TIME.com. 
  20. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Supercharges Cloud-Based Recording Studio | Epicenter"]. Wired.com. 2009-07-09. 
  21. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Indaba Online Remix Contest Lets Crowd Work with Celebs | Epicenter"]. Wired.com. 2009-10-02. 
  22. ↑ Eliot Van Buskirk. [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Finally, the On-Demand, Online Garage Band Gets Real"]. Wired.com. 
  23. ↑ Sarno, David (2007-08-19). [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Need a drummer? No problem"]. latimes.com. 
  24. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Free Tools for Bands"]. Images.businessweek.com. 
  25. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Mike Musgrove - In the Band but Out of State. Or the Country."]. washingtonpost.com. 
  26. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Mariah Carey Wants to Hear You Drop a Beat… to the Tune of $5,000 » MTV Buzzworthy Blog"]. Buzzworthy.mtv.com. 
  27. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Digital Startups Test Model, Help Musicians Collaborate"]. Billboard.biz. 2007-05-12. 
  28. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Dan Zaccagnino | February 2nd"]. ColbertNation.com. 2009-02-02. 
  29. ↑ Chris Short, eJamming technologist (2008-11-30). [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "From Broadband To Bands Jamming Abroad"]. NPR. 
  30. ↑ [Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". "Unmaking the Band - ABC News"]. Abcnews.go.com. 2007-10-19. 

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