This morning I came across the video below demonstrating a new iPhone application, the Trombone Leaf from Smule. I love videos that use only one or two people doing different parts of a song and then mash it all together. At any rate, I love the video but what I am wondering after meeting the faculty from our Guitar Hero/Music 112 project is if we could convince some students to make some of these with the help of Digital Commons? Might be really fun and cool to pull off.
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I agree with David Wiley's notion that this is the age of creating, in addition to consuming. Music making is certainly one of the greatest goal of music education.
I had a little tape recorder back in 1999 and I was playing around the sampling idea. Somebody gave me a microwave (I was too poor to afford one) and I wrote a little fun tune in return, using the sampled sound (of the secretly recorded one note from the giver, and the microwave itself):
http://www.personal.psu.edu/txl20/files/microwave.mp3
Tools today are much more mature than 1999 and I do think that musical projects Cole suggests will take the function and engagement of Digital Commons to the next level.