Quantum Hexagram 1402 #4 by Pluribus RFCL

Participants:
Max Abelev - keyboard
Lydia Harari - keyboard
Etanna Sack - keyboard
Juan Carlos Mendizabal aka Kyron - electronics, mixing, deconstructing

Pluribus is a collaborative multi-user electronic music-making software we’ve developed which breaks the boundary between the novice and professional. Through this multi-user process, people of different musical abilities can create completely unique and original music together, sounds that can only be born from multiple minds working together.

Normally, a musician is making at least three decisions whenever they play. They decide what notes to hit, the tempo and rhythm of those notes, and how loud to play them. With Pluribus, we are trying to spread all these decisions among multiple people. One person can focus on controlling the volume, another can focus on the rhythm, another on the specific notes. Right now Pluribus can separate the music into three distinct decisions, but the implications are wide open. Soon the decisions will be split even further into scales, meters, tuning, timbre, envelope- there are limitless possibilities.

Right now we are in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for new equipment, including a new computer a several new processors. With new equipment we will be able to push this work further with new experiments. We’d love your support for this truly unique and experimental approach to music-making. The campaign will go on till March 20th, 2014.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/859796775/pluribus-a-collective-electronic-music-process?ref=live