Good Practices

This portal funded by the Mid-Jutland region in Denmark is under development. It is supposed to be released in the start of 2013. The aim of the project is to develop a social network website for music students from age 9 to 18. Very similar to FaceBook and other social networks in regards to its layout and functionalities, it is singularized by additional features relevant to musicians and music students such as collaborative music making.

It 'a pilot project to ensure access to innovative ICT-based materials (eg, multimedia educational materials, websites and e-learning) to a large number of people. The project aims to contribute at improving the quality and foster innovation in vocational training.

It provides teachers, educators, students, professional operators tools to communicate (users community, forum, groupware), learn (teaching and learning pathways, formative materials and papers), collaborate and exchange (a web enviroment for the project management, WebCollab, and a repository where upload and download projects).

SoundJunction is free-to-use web-based tool for `exploring, discovering and creating music'. It has been produced by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) in association with Attic-media Ltd and designed for use primarily by young people.

It is a separate section of the portal Myna audio editor, designed for creating music in collaborative environments. Using this framework you can access the web and other Aviary tools for mobile (tools for photo retouching, vector graphics, to create musical loops and melodies). A blog is provided.

It is an environment for creating and sharing music. It is based on the collaboration of multiple users within a project. The project may include audio and video tracks, subtitles for the video tracks, cover images, and lyrics. There is a section dedicated to the research of artists for the collaboration to musical projects. The work - both audio and video - can be sold directly on the community’s website.

It is a social network for musical collaboration, where you can record your own audio tracks and sing with other singers. It makes available to the members a sharing space for musical projects, a showcase for the distribution of their products, and a discussion forum. The portal provides a plug-in for the audio recording, implemented for mobile devices. Various rankings are proposed, broken down by types of users: experts, producers, novices.

It is a shared workspace for musicians and songwriters. In addition to the service of audio file uploading/downloading, the portal provides a variety of community communication services: blogs, discussion groups, forums, chat. The site has a video section that allows to upload both musical video and tutorial.

It is focused on the mush-ups (i.e. musical works made by mixing and re-using other songs). The main menu of the site is divided into only three sections: a window to navigate among the best mush-ups already created, a service to submit the users’ work and a forums for the discussion among users. A service to rate the songs allows them to grow up the classify and get to be displayed in the display window.

The system is based on a free software that implements the functionality of a collaborative digital audio workstation (DAW). The software is multiplatform and it allows to the musicians to collaborate remotely during a song recording. A chat system allows real-time communication among artists. It is possible to create joint projects and to invite others users to participate. The site also offers tools to manage the community.