Lightspeed Audio Labs Launches Beta Release of Industry-Changing Music-based Social Networking Site
JamNow Offers a New Medium Where Musicians and Fans Can Participate
in the Music Experience in Real Time Over the Internet
Tinton Falls, NJ (June 5, 2007) – Lightspeed Audio Labs Inc., a developer of real-time, Web-based music collaboration technology, today launched the beta release of JamNow™, an Internet portal which represents the first-of-its-kind destination where collaboration, entertainment and social networking intersect in a real-time music ecosystem. JamNow provides a virtual studio and venue for musicians, jammers and fans alike to participate in the music-making process on a large and secure scale, where unique musical content is shared with others in real time.
One of the unique features of JamNow is the integration of community functionality within the music collaboration process, providing users – artists and musicians of all experience levels – with the ability to invite and communicate with friends, fans and other jammers. Unlike other services, artists now have the ability to talk with other musicians and their fans in live “virtual” sound rooms as if they were physically on stage or at a concert.
Musicians of all types (professional, amateur and everyone in between) can use the portal to rehearse, promote events, perform a live event, maintain calendars, catalog all recordings, and much more. A suite of mixing controls provides the capability to master performances and make them available to be listened to or downloaded.
“When we created JamNow, our goal was to come up with a service that would change the way in which musicians, fans and record labels collaborate, create and distribute audio content,” explained Mark Malek, co-founder of Lightspeed Audio Labs. “What’s unique about JamNow is that it’s not just for professionals. The service is robust enough to be used by the most experienced musician, while at the same time easy enough for a garage-band to put on a live show over the web, interacting with all their friends and fans in real time. JamNow.com truly empowers musicians at any level, playing music of all kinds. Best of all, it's free – for players and listeners.”
“Early on, we knew Lightspeed Audio Labs and its JamNow platform offered a completely unique, game-changing way to create and experience music over the Internet,” said Ramana Jampala, member of the Board of Directors for Lightspeed Audio Labs, and a Partner with SAS Investors, which provided the company with its Series-A funding. “In addition to providing a tool for musicians and enthusiasts to participate in the music-making process, it also represents a new channel for record labels and the music industry as a whole to create new revenue models.”
“Rock Triangle” Beta
The beta launch of JamNow, which runs through the summer of 2007, will initially target what Lightspeed executives are calling a “Rock Triangle” – a geographic area from Boston in the North, Charlotte in the South, and Milwaukee in the Midwest. Musicians anywhere within this triangle – whether in New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Nashville, or anywhere between – will be able to use the service to jam and perform. Additionally, fans outside the Rock Triangle will be able to listen to music available on the JamNow site.
“We chose to launch the beta program around this ‘Rock Triangle’ for the simple reason that these are major cities with a significant music influence,” explained Jim McDermott, Vice President of Business Development at Lightspeed Audio Labs. “JamNow will add additional regions to the beta beginning with the Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas areas during the summer of 2007.”
For more information on the beta launch of JamNow, please visit www.jamnow.com or call (732) 450-1444. |
Based in Tinton Falls, NJ, Lightspeed Audio Labs represents the new wave of Web 2.0 technology that combines community, content, collaboration and commerce, offering unique value to artists, fans and sponsors. Its patented technology platform provides a virtual studio and venue for musicians, jammers and fans alike to participate in the music-making process, where unique musical content is shared with others in real time. With Lightspeed Audio Labs, it's live, in real time, all the time! For more information, visit www.lightspeedaudiolabs.com. |
