bolt media, a ‘networking site for people developing creative projects’, announced the winner of the first online collaborative song writing contest (at least they claim it’s the first time).

Bolt’s music experts and members of the band “Three Days Grace” chose five musicians, including a Christian rocker and youth pastor and a classical musician trained at the Berklee School of Music, to form Orangeblood.

The band created the song, called “Gunshy,” over the Internet using feedback, constructive criticism and remixed tracks from a new community of musicians.

that’s very cool! i wonder what sort of collaborative tools they offered the 5 musicians and what format the feedback/criticism was fed into the process. it doesn’t seem to be promoted heavily on the bolt website. i did find this blog post but there’s not many details. anyone try this website before?

btw, i knew bolt sounded familiar. their ‘about us’ page says they’ve been around 10 years in the youth sector & sure enough … they used to be a community website. looks like they’ve survived & morphed into social networking.