With the music business model dying, it’s only natural that music would start to evolve into something else.
Something more interactive.
Which brings us to Tutti Music Player. Tutti is a new iPhone and iPad-supported app that lets aspiring musicians practice along with masters.
Confused?
Here’s a video example of how the app works.
Basically, when the app is launched, you see a split screen showing various musicians playing each part of a song. From there, app owners have control — they can do a gang of things, ranging from isolating sounds to looping certain portions.
The music on the app is jazz heavy — famed jazz wizard Wynton Marsalis is one of the masters you can play with — but the program is still evolving.
This week, Boston-based band The Love Experiment had a collection of songs called The Love Suite Vol 1 added to the app.
Even cooler is the fact that the first song from the collection, “Bliss,” is available for free, which is pretty dope.
We convince you yet?
If not then check out this interview with Darren Hoffman, who founded the app with Kristen McEntyre:
In the perfect world, you would be able to share the music on social media outlets, like Facebook and Twitter?
Yeah, it’s all in the works. The first step will be recording, and the second part will be sharing. So those will be new updates, one after the other.
It’s surprising to see that the app is free.
Well, the app is free. But the songs inside of it are purchased. And what we call them are Tuttis. It’s not a music video, it’s not a straight audio song, it’s a new category. So it’s a Tutti. Think of the Tutti music player sort of like iTunes. Artists will be creating content and delivering it to the system as a new type of product.
Will novice musicians get any kind of enjoyment from this app?
That’s what this is really about. We get so much feedback for those that don’t play music that they just want to sit down on the couch and play with this. Once the assembly view is released, you’ll be able to download the song and tap on any instrument. It is a really interesting thing to be able to go over to the drums set and hear the drums playing by themselves. Or go to the vocals and hear all the textures and be able to hear what it sounds like separated from the band.
I never really thought about it, but the natural progression of music is for people to get more involved
Absolutely, man. That’s exactly right. There’s a whole phenomenon of people recording their own versions of music on YouTube and putting it out there with varying degrees of quality. So what this does is it kind of creates the platform for true collaboration. You hit it on the head — it’s not just for performers, but fans to become part of the experience.
How do you see this app evolving?
I’ll run down a couple of them: you’ll be able to slow down the music, which is something that’s really interesting. And we’ve recorded stuff in high frame rates, so you’ll be able to slow it down but it stays very smooth in the motion. There’s other things like interactive sheet music. Like, right now we have sheet music display so you’ll be able to have a highlighting system so people can have a better understanding on how sheet music works. And there’s interconnectivity: where I record myself, send it to you, you lay down your guitar part, we would get someone else to lay down the vocals and then we can basically be collaborating.
A lot of popular music doesn’t involve traditional instruments. Can a rap song work with this app?
Any rap song can be performed by a live musician. So, for an example: Daft Punk. For the first few records, they didn’t have live musicians. But that last record is live. So, maybe it’s a bold goal, but I like to see Tutti player have a role in reintroducing live musicians into all styles of music.
SOURCE: Tutti
