A Guide To Tapegerm Collaboration

ACTIVATING YOUR ACCOUNT
Your Tapegerm profile is not active until you upload a profile photo and tell us a little about your creative self. After you do that, click the CONTACT button at the top of any website page and tell us you're ready.

CONTRIBUTING SOURCE FILES
Once you are activated, you can contribute source files. You may associate them with projects requesting source contributions, or you may simply upload them. All of your source contributions are accessible via your profile page as well as your Open Source page. If you associate a source with a project, it will be available on that project's page as well. You may associate source files with one or multiple projects, or none at all. You may upload a source file and associate it with a project at a later time if you wish. This is one of the unique things about Tapegerm collaboration -- how your sounds evolve over time and take on new shapes throughout the site, over the course of many years.

You access the source contribution area when you switch to your source artist identity. In the Tapegerm control panel, click on "artists" in the menu panel on the right. Click "select artist". Choose your "sources" artist identity and click the "Select Artist" button. Follow the instructions there as a guide. When you are done uploading source files, switch back to your main artist identity. Remember to only upload source files while the Tapegerm system identifies you as a source. Switch back to your main identity for every other Tapegerm activity (uploading compositions, photos, making comments, creating projects, etc.). Like most things, it is pretty simple once you go through the steps a couple times.

26 Oct 2012 03:00 AM

Contributing Source Files & Creating Tapegerm Projects

by The Tapegerm Collective

In order to upload individual source files to Tapegerm you'll need to have a special Source Contributor profile added to your main account. Just ask via the contact link at the top of every tapegerm.com page.

You may upload sources at any time. You may choose to assign them to projects or not. All the sources you upload via your Source Contributor profile are available on your own Open Source Page, along with compositions which utilize any of your sources.. Here's David Fuglewicz's page

Assigning source files to a Tapegerm project is open to many methods.

You may assign sources to projects individually by including "project-37" somewhere in the credits or description (where 37 is the project number indicated on a project's page). You can do this at any time, even retroactively. You may also assign a source to multiple projects if you wish.

You may assign sources you have anywhere on the web to a Tapegerm project by creating a "blog" post. Here's what a blog post might look like. This is a screenshot of Dave's contribution to the Free Loop Pack 16:

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As you can see, the source has been uploaded to archive.org. Here's what this looks like as it appears on the project page:

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You could enter a longer description if warranted. Everything you enter in the "Entry Text" field will show. Feel free to play around with it. It's made to accommodate options we probably haven't anticipated.

You may also start your own Tapegerm project. The options there are just as open. Click on the Projects link in your Main profile control panel. Here is what the entry for the new Free Loop Project looks like:

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This project had no source files to begin with since the project was about taking sources from other contributors. Another project might have sources uploaded into the project vault (zip, wav, mp3, etc. are allowed) while allowing or disallowing additional contributions. Or you could choose to feature sources you've uploaded elsewhere by linking to them in your Entry Text field. It's up to you.

Tapegerm Projects are made to accommodate a variety of methods, probably possibilities we haven't anticipated.

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