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Dear musicians,
I am reaching out as I wish to collaborate on an exclusive bricolage EP as part of my BA(Hons) final major project. I trust that your inspiration and individual talents could considerably contribute to its overall success.
To participate in this project, I request that you submit "no context stems."

The concept of the project is simple: I want you to send me isolated stems of your musical works without providing any context. By this, I mean that you can submit individual tracks, loops, or sections of your compositions, including such as one-shot samples, vocals, or patches (serum/vital/sylenth/native instruments). My end goal is to then use these stems leaving the interpretation and integration entirely to my collaborative process. I’ll use them to create a unique and interesting EP made up of all the random parts; I may use them in full, I may sample parts, or I may create one-shots and/or sampled instruments from them.

This experimental approach aims to combine the various talents of musicians like yourself in a creative collaboration that emerges spontaneous freestyled tracks from the mix of different sounds, styles, and influences. The lack of context encourages a fresh and innovative perspective, allowing for this unexpected influence and musical journey.

Submission Details:
• Deadline: [29/03/2024]
• Preferred Audio format: WAV or AIFF
• Email subject: [Your Name] - No Context Stems Submission
• Filenames: [Key, Tempo, Artist Name, Location.WAV/AIFF]
• Email address: 123131@student.calderdale.ac.uk
• Licence Agreement - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or if you'd like more information about the project. I am excited about the potential for collaboration and look forward to hearing the diverse contributions that will make this project truly extraordinary.
Thank you for considering being a part of this innovative musical project.

Kind Regards
Stephen

There's a FreesoundLabs app for that ...
https://ffont.github.io/freesound-loop-generator/ #random

Timbre wrote:
There's a FreesoundLabs app for that ...
https://ffont.github.io/freesound-loop-generator/ #random

Although a very interesting piece of freeware, it's too random and isn't really what I had in mind with the outline of my project. I shall bookmark it though for future reference as I could see it being a fun thing to use for other projects.

To be perfectly honest having hit the sounds tab if people were to send me things like this under the licence agreement requested, it'd be absolutely perfect.

The problem I have is I'm wishing for random stuff to be sent rather than me picking and choosing personally, because then it becomes less about the creative restrictions with bricolage and more about the choices I make creatively. I want those choices to be taken from me completely and build something of the back of what I have available.

Ian_Cognito wrote:
To be perfectly honest having hit the sounds tab if people were to send me things like this under the licence agreement requested, it'd be absolutely perfect.

https://freesound.org/browse/random/

I'm not a lawyer but I think the 3 the Freesound licenses are all compatible with "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike".

https://freesound.org/help/faq/#licenses