Comments on: CrowdFire Launches: The Creation Myth

By: joycesharpe

joycesharpe — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:34:00 +0000

Recording a show is quite a challenging thing to do, I know that for sure cause I used to work as a video operator for a couple of years. Lighting and sound conditions leave much to be desired on the concerts, so you have to challenge your equipment and then spend hours on editing the pics and videos. You might need to convert mov to avi http://convertflvtomp4.org/ of use some specific soft to correct the sound etc etc. Nice to know there are steps undertaken to ease the process!

By: joycesharpe

joycesharpe — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:27:00 +0000

jhk

By: Mops

Mops — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:55:01 +0000

I visited festivals in my country as often as I can. I think there is always a typical mood everywhere. I really like it and will never miss the feelings to join these meetings with my friends. There is a lot of work to do, I can imagine. Keep on blooging and Cheers.

By: oyun

oyun — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:46:00 +0000

For example, I have a photo on my phone right now from a concert Tuesday night.

By: Zachary Carson

Zachary Carson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:03:51 +0000

I really enjoyed this one – I have been working in the festival industry for some time – and mostly focusing on how we can use the platforms of festival and large collaborative social gatherings to not only have a great party, but to really change peoples consciousness on important issues of our time. From a production stand-point, I see festivals as an opportunity to provide an experience for people – people are really looking to be experienced upon – and if we can take this opportunity to creatively educate people about how they can live more sustainably on this planet – than we are evolving the festival and music scene from an unconscious party vibration to one of collaborative experiences and mind-altering edu-tainment. I would really like to talk to you about how to use this technology on our tour – and potentially create this same sharing sensation of festival and music experience, but rather focus the same idea and intention for people to share about what they learned or how their perceptions of our planet, community and lifestyles have changes through certain events. Please contact me asap as we leave for tour in 3 week and launch at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions — Here is a link to our promo video – hope to hear back from you soon – http://matthewgamlen.com/projects/slr/SLR_07.mov

By: ken

ken — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:03:35 +0000

you are officially a hipster.

By: nmw

nmw — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:28:17 +0000

Apparently, the Rolling Stones are very much into crowdsourcing, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLuBTB8mF8

By: JG

JG — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:49:37 +0000

we hope to provide all of us music fans a platform for doing with the experience of music what we're already doing with the experience of the web: a place where all of us can share and produce our experiences: a many to many celebration of live music, in real time, as well as as an ongoing, living archive of what has happened, and what might happen next.

Though it's not quite live music, I am reminded of an interactive exhibit I saw a few years ago at Centre Pompidou in Paris, in association with IRCAM. Someone had recorded / synchronized a 16-track bossa nova piece.. horns, percussion, etc. and then wired each piece to pressure sensitive pads on the floor, in a 4x4 grid. Each pad was about a square foot in size. As you stepped on each pad, it turned that 1 of the 16 tracks on or off.

So you would get on this thing, and literally dance your way around. And as you danced and moved and hit various pads, it would change the music, by turning on and off the various tracks. The interactivity, the mixing, the real-time nature of it really made the experience of the song your own. Even though each track was prerecorded, every time the song played it was different, because your own movement was itself an interpretation, a mix, a mashup of the original song.

To me, dance and music go hand in hand. I can't listen to music and not want to move, in some form or other.

Anyway, this all looks interesting. I'll check it out!

By: Heidi Strom Moon

Heidi Strom Moon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:14:36 +0000

Is there no way to submit photos or videos via SMS? The likelihood of my contributing concert imagery/audio is greatly diminished if I can't do it right then and there, from the event itself.

For example, I have a photo on my phone right now from a concert Tuesday night. I was going to upload it until I realized I'd have to email it to myself, download it, then reupload it to CrowdFire. Ain't gonna happen.

Looking forward to seeing what emerges from Outside Lands.

By: nmw

nmw — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:59:47 +0000

John, my first reaction to this was: oh, cool: now Microsoft will be able to create landscape-style videos of such concert events. Then I thought: hmm, maybe there should be some indication of the “data quality” (e.g. camera resolution, etc.). I thought a little further and lo and behold, I came to the conclusion that this should not be about the focus on the stage (because there are already enough cameras doing that anyway (after all, that’s what gets projected onto the big screens, that’s what gets turned into the professional video.

On the contrary, I expect what this may become is a “media backchannel” similar to what twitter has become on the conference scene. As such, this may become an important avenue for those “Supergroups” to have a view into the lives of their innumerable fans (kind of like tearing down Pink Floyd’s wall …

I live for jazz — jazz is one of the most intimate music experiences there is. I will never forget listening to Wynton Marsalis at the Village Vanguard (something that is now “available” as a box-set recording), I remember the eye contact, being in one small room, seeing every hand clapping, every face smiling, every single one (“alone, or in pairs…”). This is the world of jazz.

I can’t tell you how many times I have experienced such intimacy — and it’s like a drug, really. It’s something “rock supergroups” have lost (it kind of “went” with the “long, strange trip” down the path to fabricated music.

It’s fitting that Tom Petty is appearing — I hope he plays “A Face in the Crowd”… and let’s hope that is only the beginning a wonderful multiplicity of screens showing a multiplicity of views into a multiplicity of experiences of one world… (and of, of course: “one world is enough for all of us”

nmw