https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/tags/techniques/collaboration/Latest entries for the tag CollaborationenFri, 03 Nov 2023 14:36:44 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/together-apart-remote-jamming-with-speedy-j/In an era of hyper-connectivity, most musicians have wondered whether it’s possible to play music in real time with friends around the world. The enforced lockdowns of the COVID pandemic only made this idea more appealing, as in-person jamming became impossible and music makers were confined to their homes and…Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:36:44 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/together-apart-remote-jamming-with-speedy-j/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sextile-rocking-the-synths/Formed in 2015 by Brooklyn duo Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto, LA-based Sextile began life as an “occult-inspired” post-punk band, with the line-up quickly expanded through the addition of bassist Kenny Elkin and guitarist Eddie Wuebben. Initially compared to psychobilly surf rockers The Cramps, their album A Thousand Hands was…Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:26:30 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sextile-rocking-the-synths/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/muna-staying-alive/Comprising Naomi McPherson, Katie Gavin and Josette Maskin, electronic indie band MUNA first came to public attention in 2016 when their infectious single “I Know A Place” landed in the Billboard Adult Pop Top 40. Clearly not your everyday mainstream pop act, the trio’s brand of melancholy, hook-based synth-pop was…Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:12:25 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/muna-staying-alive/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hitech-reinventing-ghettotech/Bound by their techno roots and call-and-response rap phraseology, Detroit-bred HiTech is a collaboration between producers and vocalists King Milo, Milf Melly and DJ 47Chops. Despite their individualized takes on Motor City culture, they held a shared desire to create a new blueprint for the gritty ghettotech sub-genre and spent…Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:57:00 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/hitech-reinventing-ghettotech/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-session-see-wayne-snow-in-songwriting-mode/Wayne Snow’s studio sessions are physical, expressive, and often a lot of fun. When he’s in songwriting mode, he deploys acting techniques to explore and recall his experiences, and teams up with a producer to resurface them into creative energy for his music. In March 2023, he and producer Golo…Thu, 17 Aug 2023 09:09:40 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-session-see-wayne-snow-in-songwriting-mode/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/processed-realities-exploring-the-psychedelic-future-music-of-special-guest-dj-perila-and-ben-bondy/Looking back through the history of music, it’s often communities that incubate the most exciting developments in sound. Individual pioneers do exist and should not be disregarded, but most tangible musical movements are formed by people exchanging ideas and creatively spurring each other on. In the online era, these movements…Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:57:21 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/processed-realities-exploring-the-psychedelic-future-music-of-special-guest-dj-perila-and-ben-bondy/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/melati-esp-collaboration-worldwide/How do you improvise in real time with collaborators who are halfway across the globe? This tricky proposition confronted the trio Asa Tone – Melati Malay, Erin Rioux aka Tristan Arp, and Izak Jerasimo aka Kaazi – as they set up to play an all-remote 2020 edition of the New…Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:43:53 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/melati-esp-collaboration-worldwide/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sg-lewis-bridge-to-the-underground/Sam Lewis doesn’t usually enjoy making music on his own. “It’s like going to the pub by yourself,” he explains. “It can be fun, I guess. But I find working with other people so much more exciting.” It’s not a surprising sentiment to hear from someone whose long list of…Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:21:30 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/sg-lewis-bridge-to-the-underground/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/know-yourself-gafacci-on-respectful-collaboration/Solo music production can lead us to create problems we can’t solve on our own. Out of nowhere, the track demands something - a beat, a melody or a vocal - that we know we could never produce. If you’re lucky enough to know someone who can, the solution might…Mon, 08 May 2023 15:25:12 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/know-yourself-gafacci-on-respectful-collaboration/LoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/word-music-composing-using-text-scores-with-maya-shenfeld/Whether you’re an electronic producer, a pop musician or a classical composer, you likely have at some point found yourself feeling hemmed in by the impression that there are some intangible rules that music-makers must follow. We might feel that we should try and fit into a certain role; that…Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:03:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/word-music-composing-using-text-scores-with-maya-shenfeld/ArtistsLoopVideoshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/prioritizing-the-personal-sam-slater-on-reasons-to-collaborate/When we think of reasons to collaborate with someone, we might think of the skills or sounds a player could bring to our music, or the perspective a producer might offer that could improve it. In other words, we think about the end result, and imagine it being optimized by…Fri, 09 Dec 2022 10:53:09 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/prioritizing-the-personal-sam-slater-on-reasons-to-collaborate/ArtistsLoophttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/friends-not-samples-the-soft-pink-truth-on-collaboration-and-pleasure/“If I had to boil it down to a slogan it'd be like, ‘Friends, not samples,’” jokes Drew Daniel of his recent music. Daniel is best known as one half of the duo Matmos, who are famous for doing extraordinary things with unlikely sound sources: a washing machine; the sounds…Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:46:08 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/friends-not-samples-the-soft-pink-truth-on-collaboration-and-pleasure/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/andrey-sirotkin-in-ukraine-music-is-my-shelter/Most music makers today can attest to the disruption that world events can have on their work. In recent times, while society at large had barely started on its long road to post-pandemic recovery, a new kind of crisis emerged as Russia launched its military invasion of Ukraine. For the…Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:01:23 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/andrey-sirotkin-in-ukraine-music-is-my-shelter/Artistshttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-create-explore-collective-creation/Loop Create is back on October 29, and this year’s edition is all about making music together. Get involved in a day packed with free, online activities for music makers of all experience levels, where we’ll take a look at the ways people can pool their talents and ideas in…Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:21:05 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/loop-create-explore-collective-creation/NewsLoophttps://www.ableton.com/en/blog/get-together-the-changing-forms-of-musical-collaboration/Into the closet “What about you, Trace? Can you sing?” The scene is a teenage bedroom in England in 1979. A band called The Stern Bops is rehearsing, or they would be if their singer had bothered to show up. For lack of any better options, someone asks Tracey, the…Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:32:01 +0000https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/get-together-the-changing-forms-of-musical-collaboration/Loop