New Collaborative Composition App

Some friends and I have just gotten our new composition app on-line:

http://www.teamcomposer.com (previously known as MusicDNA Composer)

TeamComposer is mainly a sequencer, but it 'knows' basic harmony and helps you to generate chord progressions and harmonies. It's not a replacement for current score editing or sequencing apps like Finale/Logic etc, it's more of a social composition site, and also a teaching tool -- it's fairly beginner oriented and has music lessons and wizards and such.

What's unique about it is that it's collaborative and integrated with the web -- multiple composers can work on the same piece in real-time, with each collab session having its own chat room, and you can 'tweet' pieces of music to the front page or publish them to your facebook news feed.

I'm hoping the collaboration angle makes it useful to communities like YC, and in the educational arena as well. There's been a big push towards collaboration in education the past few years, and everyone now expects apps to work easily with other apps and the web these days. I'm hoping TC can bring this to the realm of music composition.

So enjoy! If you run into any major bugs etc, you can use the contact us form, or I might be in the chat room (eightfold).

- Justin.

I actually checked out musicDNA a bit ago. Weren't you trying to make it collaboration oriented then?

Yes, sort of...you could open other people's songs, but you had to save your own copy. So it was more like sending .mus files back and forth -- TeamComposer is more like Google Docs, but for composition. You can see/chat with others working on the same piece, and see what section of the song they're working on.

You can still edit others' works, but now they're called 'variations' on the site, and are attached to the original song.

This sounds interesting, and useful when it comes to helping my musically newbie friend :santa: