zucherman:

nathanjohnson:

Collaborative Scoring with HitRECord.org

Okay, wanna see how this works? I posted a rough sketch of the score for the in-progress short film “Morgan & Destiny’s Eleventeeth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo” before I left for Mearsy’s wedding this weekend. Today I popped into a coffee shop and found a page full of submissions! Strings, drums, percussion, piano, trumpets, guitars, oh my!

In one weekend, all of these isolated instruments were uploaded on HitRECord.org to go along with the score I wrote. Tomorrow, I’ll be back in my little studio and will start adding these new parts to the score, editing, and then mixing them for the premier screening at SXSW on Saturday.

It’s quite incredible to work this way!

#validating

When I first saw Maestro Nathan Johnson’s creative process, it was gamechanging. I immediately knew two things:

1. It is wise to structure Creative Processes so that they don’t rely on their best possible outcome, but rather iterate. eg, so the short-term actions are not contingent on the long-term success, but they do feed and add to it.
2. When this man’s creative process becomes an open thing for the world and the internet to participate in, great things will happen.

It’s uber-exciting to finally see it happening, and I’m honored to have been a part of making it happen :)