The Megasong Project

The Megasong Project is a demoscene music project initiated by Fabian Del Priore aka Rapture to bring together talented demoscene musicians and trackers from all over the world, combining their forces in one big music piece, which they bring together in collaboration; each participant is working on a part of the song (each one working on a few patterns or so), before it's the turn of the next participant and the tune is handed to him. The end result is a massive coop tune, but sounding as homogeneous and consistent as possible. The Megasong can be in all kinds of styles with different musicians, different song length, different software to work with and so on, so the whole project is flexible to the max! For example the first Megasong is in Spacesynth style, sounding like Laserdance/Koto. In general, the Megasong could be defined stating the following basic features: Style: Whatever the given group of musicians can agree on, everything is possible: Chipmusic, Demomusic, Gamemusic, Soundtracker ST-01 / Earlymod, Techno, Trance, German folk musik, experimental, whatever... Mainthing is working together on a FUN project! :) Length: Minimum 10 minutes, maximum 30 minutes Number of participants: Minimum 5 participants, maximum: No limitations, although organisizing a Megasong with too many artists could be a bit complicated. Platform/Software: Depends. Could be anything from any tracker to any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation / music studio environment) like Steinberg Cubase or Renoise. The music group must have roughly the same experience on the same platform. For DAW's like Renoise or Cubase, only freeware VST Plugins will be used (no commercial plugins) so they can be exchanged between the group, thus every composer of the group can take part on the project without any hassle! Every game and demo scene musican who feels talented and motivated enough is invited for exciting future Megasong projects! Send your musical ideas and music clips to Rapture! Have fun listening and drop me a comment! You can reach us on the Nectarine Demoscene Radio at www.scenestream.net