If anyone reading this blog is interested in participating in the Napquisite, email Jonathan at the email he provided. I would like to see John Cramer, Charlie Naked, Clinton, Heidi, Ramon, Ms Rosa, Doug, Ramona, Clay, Matthew, Tom and all the regular commenters at least to take a stab at it. What can you lose? If you are lurking, it would be cool to have you too. Get your fingers out and sign up. It will be easy and Tres Cool.

So in the end, I’m leaning toward a combination of Kilian’s thinking for the first phase and a generalized version of Carlos’ thinking for the second phase.

Format? I don’t think it needs to be defined, but if particular people want to work in particular ways, then we should take that into account as we develop the order. If someone needs a tape passed to them, for example, I shouldn’t go before them – I no longer have a tape deck.

So I suppose that as we figure out who’s interested, we should also figure out whether they have any constraints on what they can accept to work with.

I’ll keep checking this page for new interest… but if no one has any objections, I will coordinate via email. If you’re interested in participating, no matter who you are, please send an email to napquisite MONKEYFIST phossie.com. (Replace MONKEYFIST with an @.) I’ll start up a little mailing list and a site so we can all check on status anytime.

siiiiiigh…

there i go again oo-ing over lyrics about ladies garments. though here not necessarily ladies garments. well i’m imagining it’s ladies garments and specifically my lilac corduroy skirt.

nice, nice johnathan. tanx.

We don’t need to be too strict in terms of software or in terms of what constitutes a section or contribution. My suggestion would be to work linearly through in the classic style, then at the end share all the pieces with everyone… and have at it. I think that way everyone has the opportunity to contribute at every stage of the process.

Thoughts? Would that work for the people interested so far?

Right now we have Jonathan, EM, Justin, Kilian and myself on the list.

I’d like to see them as separate pieces. They are different ideas to me.

I would say for the corpse that each segment be the same length and that they are numbered so that the active participant knows where in the piece he is although he only hears the piece ahead of him (this is essentially how a drawn EC works except the person doesn’t see the piece in front usually, only how to connect to it*). We do have to know the number of participants for this one (it’s important to seeing the whole at least abstractly).

Okay somebody would have to be designated the starter and he passes his piece to the next person and so on but each participant only receives the one ahead. When the final person is done each participant sends his piece (which is numbered) to the designated compiler.

The other idea doesn’t necessarily have to have the participants defined and could be thought of as an ongoing layering piece. Since it was your idea originally you might post a song and then let somebody have at it, layer it and put it back up for the next participant.

*with that in mind, we could limit what each participant hears to the last ten seconds of the connecting piece. I actually like that better.