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Darcy, what about music composers and scrum?

 
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Darcy, can Scrum be used to make music composing processes in the studio any more efficient? Or is it exclusive to coding?
 
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So, I think what you are talking about really is the audio version of the book and if there would be a musical component to it.

So far, there is no timeline for an audio version, although I was planning on doing an Udemy course based on the book and the extra set of question I have.

I guess I could always take the audio from that course and sell it as an audiobook when I'm done, but again, no plans yet.

If I do something like that, I would definitely ask my friends to help with the audio score, and you would definitely qualify as a possible composer!
 
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Darcy DeClute wrote:. . . I think what you are talking about really . . .

I thought he meant something different. Can composers use Scrum techniques to digitise/record their music?
 
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The stewards of Scrum have worked really hard to move Scrum out of the domain of software development.

The concepts behind Scrum really work for any team building a product, even building a symphony or a beautiful composition.

At it's root, Scrum just says:

  • Plan but don't plan too much
  • Work hard and adapt your plan every day
  • Review regularly with clients
  • At least once a month have the team think about how to do things better


  • And it's all done incrementally and iteratively.

    If a team buliding a symphony thinks that might work for them, they are totally encouraged to give Scrum a try!
     
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    Not to denigrate Scrum, but I cannot honestly think of any major musical compositions that were team-produced, At best you might have something like Gilbert & Sullivan, the Gerschwin brothers or various Broadway team-ups, but those are all "pair programming" if you will. Composing is often a single-person job and many of the collaborations are one person doing lyrics and another doing the musical part. Even a group like the Beatles would probably not scrum very well.

    Best I can envision is something like a bespoke film scoring effort where, say Tim Burton, Danny Elfman and a bunch of the creative team get together to design a musical production, but that's not real "composer scrum", it's for something bigger.

    I'd go so far as to say that you might as well just give music composition over to ChatGPT as to a committee.

    On the other hand, Renaissance art studios often were headed by a headline artist such as Michaelangelo or Da Vinci who would, in fact, be working heavily on commission (as opposed to Mozart who was on salary or Bach who wrote 6 Brandenburg Concertoes in the vain hope of simply getting a job). Such studios would generally consist of the Master, students, and other flunkies who might be doing the prep and rough-in work before the final piece was polished, signed and delivered to a client. That might very well be worth a shot at scrum.
     
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    Tim Holloway wrote:. . . Gilbert & Sullivan

    They didn't compose in pairs; Gilbert wrote the words and Sullivan the music.

    . . . "pair programming"  . . . .

    There is a lot of that about; many modern compositions are “pair composed”.
     
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    Campbell Ritchie wrote:Gilbert & Sullivan

    They didn't compose in pairs; Gilbert wrote the words and Sullivan the music.

    Tim Holloway wrote:… many of the collaborations are one person doing lyrics and another doing the musical part.

     
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    Yes, they were, and still are. And I missed where youi said that But there are some pieces where either words or music are pair programmedcomposed.
     
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