For Orchestra!

I always keep an eye on trends and news stories and see how it can relate to music and new ideas. This week Google officially released Google Wave, which essentially is a real- time messaging service. It’s Google’s answer to “If email, IM, etc. were invented today, what would it look like?”

So I started thinking – what if there were something like this for Music? What if musicians from all across the world could edit, send, and remix music in real time as the music was playing or being written?

Just to clarify – Google Wave allows people to actually SEE what people are writing as they write it. With this mindset in music, imagine how amazing, collaborative, and audience participation-y live shows, movies, and all entertainment would be.

But then outside of the idea of Google Wave as real-time, I started thinking about how musicians can use the actual Wave program for music in itself. With this technology, a band spread across the globe can write lyrics and ideas together in real time. This is a huge turn in band collaboration, because art is spontaneous and collaboration – and these are exactly what Wave is building on.

I imagine there are few things that launched online that ‘reinvented’ the internet, and one of them is Twitter. This site has launched the online era of real time reporting, collaboration, and more. We’re finally entering Web 2.0 – but what about Music 2.0 ? I hope to see more things like this adapt into our work habits and collaborate on art – because that’s what art is about. It’s about sharing ideas and reinventing ourselves.

Feel free to check out my music, or at least spreading it on Twitter, Facebook, or email.

You can suggest songs via Twitter using Hashtag #ForOrchestra

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