Announcing the NMC Jam Pack!

As many of you know, as past of the NMC's 15th anniversary celebration going on all year, participants at the NMC 2008 Summer Conference had a special opportunity to visit the John Lennon Bus - a world class audio/video studio on wheels-- and spend 15 minutes laying down a lick, a groove, a vocal, or other gem that was then processed by bus staff as Apple Sound Loops. The loop files are designed to be used in audio editing software to mix and match in tracks to generate new songs.

The loops are now ready at http://www.nmc.org/jampack, and we're are issuing a call for musical compositions using them as part of NMC@15-- it's time to put your jam on!

These files can be imported into GarageBand, LogicPro, Acid, and other sound editing software and alone or with other loops to create new musical works. To help you, we have created a brief guide to using the loops with instructions for GarageBand and Acid XPress.

Please experiment with the loops, generate new music, and share them back with us. Simply upload your final songs as MP3 files to where ever you can put them online reachable via a URL. Then share them with us by commenting below and/or tagging them in delicious as nmcjampack where they are easily played via the built in player control there: http://delicious.com/tag/nmcjampack

Many thanks to Tom Knab (of NMC Rock Hall Jam fame) for this idea, and to all the folks who contributed loops on the bus. Now we ask you to show us how creative you can be with remixing the sound loops shared by your NMC colleagues.