About How I Really Feel
How I Really Feel is an app born from the belief that the internet is a playground, within which one of our greatest adventures is finding ways to filter signal from the noise.
There is already a huge plethora of social networking and promotional sites for art, music and expression. Some of them are brilliantly useful. I’ve found artists I’ve worked with for years via Deviant Art, hooked up shows with Facebook and I’m totally obsessed with thesixtyone.com.
That bit has been figured out. Hype Machine and last.fm and all that crowd focus (beautifully) on up-to-the-minute fashion and user taste respectively, Pandora goes by a totally cool and novel set of parameters.
Our slightly different variation on an old tune will hopefully offer another novel method of interaction and discovery.
How does it work?
- Artists upload songs, noting genre and completeness (i.e. radio ready, demo, etc).
- Tracks are assigned random numbers and appear in listeners’ playlists, relative to their taste.
- After listening for a bit, people can let the artist know how they feel about the track. They can do this anonymously, or not.
- If the artist allows it, the listener can then download the mp3, and/or see the band name + link.
- As people listen and critique, artists can see how people felt about their tracks, with a few soft metrics like how long they listen for.
I would like to believe that post-rumble, this same format can be expanded upon to any uploadable artform. The point here is not so much the music as it is the method of interaction.
Thank you, very kindly, for taking the time to check this out. :)
- Will
Let us know how you feel:
- Say hello on irc at irc.freenode.net #rumblesheep
- tweet @willdayble
