ArtRiver

The Artistic Revision Tracker & Retriever Protocol.

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A WIP GUI for ArtRiver, there's quite a ways to go before it's fully functional and usable in an audio production/processing workflow, but progress is being made.

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There's quite a wide range of new possibilities regarding sampling, remixes, collaboration, attribution, royalties, and fan engagement that is unlocked once the creative process behind a given piece of audio becomes a proper artifact in and of itself.

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An idealized visualization of how an artist might engage with the TimeShore (project metadata/history) of an ArtRiver (the actual audio project), as a navigable, playable project history, and interact with their or someone else's creative process as an artifact in and of itself.

[ArtRiver @artriverprtcl]

Audio version control might sound strange, but in a sense, producers and mixing engineers already use it, they just do so in an error-prone, inefficient manner, relying on notepads of settings, incremented and augmented file/folder names, and renamed mix downs.

[ArtRiver @artriverprtcl]

A digital audio workstation is simply an integrated development environment for audio.

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A digital audio workstation is an integrated development environment for music.

Could it be possible to translate concepts from the latter into the former, to enhance the capabilities and experience of using the former?

[ArtRiver @artriverprtcl]

Every artriver will have an associated timeshore, which will allow the creative process to be viewed as a playable & navigable digital construct.

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What if the creative process had a lifetime that could extend beyond the art it produced?

What if it could be made into a piece of art itself?