Many, many years agone, back when there was such a thing as a Classifieds page, This Solid ground Life's Starlee Cows wondered if she could contribute together musicians advertising their services to form what she called a one-day stria. (Spoiler: They invest together a kind of awful rendition of "Skyrocket Man.") The Classifieds section may be a token of the erstwhile, but lonely mellisonant Black Maria are not. That, at least, is the theory behind Soundslates, a web site that launched in beta on New Year's Day. Soundslates is some amalgamation of a social network and jobs board, and IT hopes to bring musical soulmates together crossways the boundaries of space.

No four-track recorders, cassettes, operating theater postage needful.

The project is the brainchild of Pierre Seylan, 22, an applied science student from Paris with a passion for music. "I'm kind of an inexpert," helium tells Fast Company. Since he ne'er did music full-clock time, Seylan found he wasn't American Samoa networked as a professional musician might be. He needed collaborators, but was "considerate of blocked," he said. Then, in February of last twelvemonth, he got the musical theme for a social network that would let people make over music together, no matter where they were located. "I thought, let's make a place for musicians that want to go encourage in their music." Musicians, even when they bring on in the same city, have already virtualized much of their work out, sending files back and forth. Why couldn't that principle be extended to its logical conclusion?

Soundslates is really much a beta see, but citizenry are already using it and enjoying it, says the locate's communications mortal, Stephanie Lamy. "Inside hours of launch, a Swedish bassist and drum buff hooked up with an Italian pop singer, and they idolized collaborating together." The site received a slender publicity boost when the YouTube starlet Lisa Lavie featured IT in a Christmas video.

The site will follow a freemium model, distinguishing between "collabs" (evenhanded for the love of it, no money exchanged) and "jobs." Seylan plans to monetize in trio ways: 1) by charging a pentad-dollar-a-month fee for those who economic consumption the locate for "jobs", 2) away pickings a small fee for the service of certain transactions over the site, and 3) past eventually launching ad partnerships on medicine-precise matters. "We didn't want to charge musicians too much," says Seylan, noting that to a fault fewer of them already make money from their music as it is. Every bit a user, IT's easy to use the situation for free until you get a job offer, meaning information technology's a beautiful risk-free proposal (it's besides discharged, in all aspects, through January). The site launched along January 1 with honorable 20 users; three years later, it had 200. A publicity push is astir to begin.

Seylan says that the site International Relations and Security Network't about getting famous: Better stick to current channels for that. Rather, IT's about growing every bit a musician, and connecting with others World Health Organization share your cantabile vision. "You will not get famous past going connected Soundslates, but Soundslates gives you what you need in order to be famous," he says–that is, the opportunity to collaborate with others and hone your talent.

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