NPR Morning Edition: The Submarines, Jamglue, and Online Music Collaboration!!
This morning, NPR’s Morning Edition did a segment on online music collaboration! They included a snippet from Peace and Hate by the Submarines, who were part of Jamglue’s very first Remix Contest back in December!
(Listen to the mp3 and read more)
We were very excited that Morning Edition was able to tell America about Jamglue, and we are huge fans of the show.
However, we would like to clarify a few points:
Peace and Hate was recorded by The Submarines, who are professional musicians represented by the Nettwerk Music Group. Before they got involved with Jamglue, The Submarines were already an up-and-coming band who had released their album “Declare a New State!”, and were playing shows together. Peace and Hate was not created from tracks uploaded by Blake and John separately, but in fact, Nettwerk released the tracks to Jamglue under Creative Commons licenses so that fans could see how the song was assembled and create their own renditions.
This is particularly cool, because The Submarines have a background of two people who came together as musical collaborators, and now they are continuing their collaborative conversation with our entire user base by opening up their song, showing us how they made it, and inviting users to continue the creative process.
Congratulations to the Submarines for making waves, and being part of a new movement to allow fans to do more than just listen! And of course, thanks again to Eliot Van Buskirk from Wired News for setting us up with Morning Edition.
