The Fruit Projects

Fruit Projects: April 2007

Collaboration has given birth to many creative and original tracks in the various genres of music. Artists jam with one another, contributing their different likes and styles, adding to a track a unique angle. In electronic music, collaboration is ever more interesting as numerous artists can pitch in with just a loop or an audio take, and at the end, an original track is born. Below, in each fruit project, we are working together on building different tracks to compile an experimental album that represents various talents and styles.

In each project, we will work together to create a base, arrange different loops together, synchronize and quantize instrument/audio samples, mix and edit, all in the spirit of experimentation, trial and error. Whether you wish to contribute with a loop of an instrumental sample or you wish to compose, mix or edit, all musicians are invited.

Each fruit is its own unique project, each one oriented towards a certain theme, to ensure that different music moods, tempos and styles are fairly represented.
In each project section, you will also find a comments area where artists and listeners alike can discuss the track This is also the area where you can share the links to your uploaded audio files (In the links section of the side bar of the blog you will find a list of free file hosting services that you can use to upload your files).

To optimize our efficiency and create a sort of order from all this artistic chaos, we will follow a very loose timeline, lasting around one year. This might seem long, but this will give us as much time possible to try out different things. Below is the timeline broken down into different periods:

• April 2008: Choosing Themes - Theme Selection of each project track (mood, tempo, and musical style) according to the project’s sequence on the album.
• May-June 2008: Building Blocks - Submission of different samples or initial tracks (e.g. bass, acoustic or electric guitar, piano, drums, keyboard etc), in accordance with the set themes.
• July 2008: Lobbying - Artists group together and begin exchanges (file exchanging, editing one another’s samples, suggesting and discussing).
• August-November 2008: Arranging Pieces - Each group works as a team to developing the track by arranging the takes and audio samples to prepare the track for the mix. This is also the period when the composers begin to select which tracks they would like to work on.
• December 2008-January 2009: Mixing Pieces - Here, the sound engineers will help bands and musicians take their track to the next level of production. Composers and editors take the lead and begin harmonizing the track by panning and adjusting the volume frequency and dynamical content of the different audio takes and loops singled out during the Arranging Pieces phase).
• February 2009-March 2009: Finalizing the Track - Here, mastering engineers equalize, compress, limit and reduce noise, as well as many other final editing processes, including the final step would of bouncing the tracks. This is wrap-up time when all our efforts are finally realized into a compilation of diverse, unique and original tracks.

1. The Apple Project
   
2. The Banana Project
3. The Blackberry Project
4. The Cherry Project
   
5. The Grape Project
   
6. The Kiwi Project
   
7. The Lemon Project
   
8. The Peach Project
   
9. The Strawberry Project
   
10. The Watermelon Project

See also:

• Concert of Collaboration: Making Music Together By barbara mountjoy