“We wanted to get the community involved and what we did was we went to these schools and got them to use a bunch of sounds that we could use in the foundational track.”Īfter listening to some of the music produced from these sessions with grade six students, McGuire explains how the catching beat was built. “It is a bit of a collaboration between the kids at Mudgeeraba State School and the writing of Kev Carmody coming together under this project, Open Song,” said McGuire, who is a former student of Grant at Inkahoots and one third of the local rap group Tailor Made. Anyone with a smartphone and headphones can rock up any time day or night and participate in Open Song,” Grant said. “Open Song is a technology-based installation and it is on for the duration of the festival 24 7. Open Song is simply the latest installation to come from this local stalwart, as commissioned for the Gold Coast Arts Bleach Festival. What started out as a community based screen printing business by Jason Grant 26 years ago, Inkahoots has bloomed into a staple illustrator of the Australian creative arts sector. The public sound art project was developed from musician Jordan McGuire, producer Corey Enggist, programmers Bhu Vidya and Mat Johnson, and co designer Ben Mangan all bunkered in at Inkahoots, the well established West End design studio sandwiched into Princhester Street between West End Mosque and Moo Brew craft beer bar on Vulture Street. We are a design studio, so our natural environment is a studio, this is a breakaway from that. It is a way to get people engaged in a deeper creative engagement with the space around them. “Open Song started as an idea to create a geo-located user-generated soundscape,” designer Jason Grant of Inkahoots described. Jason Grant and Jordan McGuire are proud to introduce Open Song, the new application brought out by longstanding West End design studio, Inkahoots. On the downside, the UI is not very intuitive OpenSong is primarily oriented towards advanced users.Imagine walking through your environment and capturing the wonderful sounds of human life and nature into song. We have not come across any issues during our evaluation, since the app did not freeze, crash or alert us of any errors. OpenSong requires a moderate-to-high quantity of CPU and system memory, is very responsive to key strokes and mouse events, and includes a thorough help file. Plenty of general options can be modified, and they refer to the UI language, fonts, initial window (songs or sets), the documents folder, log level, proxy and image quality, among others.
default slide style and logo, transitions, borders, snapshots), as well as install OpenSong modules (XMM format). In addition, you can view a song activity log, use a search function, configure presentation settings (e.g.
More experienced users are free to tinker with song properties when it comes to the key, time signature, tempo, key line and custom files to be used by third-party applications. You can toggle between song mode (to edit songs) and set mode (to edit sets). It is possible to write titles, subtitles, names and notes, insert as many slides as you want, use transitions, organize folders, as well as to import songs and apply themes. So, you can create a new project from scratch or select a sample provided by the tool. The interface of OpenSong is plain and simple. It addresses users with some minimal background in such apps. OpenSong is a program designed to help you seamlessly manage song-related information, such as lyrics, chords and lead sheets.