If you want to get involved, find out more information, or have any suggestions, visit the Facebook group or contact MusiciansAtBrown@gmail.com.

Students at Brown pride themselves on the diversity and quality of artistic performances on campus and we enjoy a rich array of official and unofficial performance groups. Regardless there exists a pool of musicians, entertainers, and artists who want to explore their art with other students but have not yet discovered other musicians with similar interests and collaborative opportunities have been left untapped.

Musicians@Brown is a networking tool responding to the need for facilitating communication and collaboration between artists on campus. Musicians@Brown will provide a network where musicians, entertainers, and producers can easily find each other and locate live performances and events around College Hill. Students can provide information about the instrument(s) that they play, potential musical interests (for example jamming or starting a band), the genres they enjoy, contact information, and other items that are consolidated in a search enabled database. When a band needs to find a drummer, a student is looking for people to jam with, or if someone wants to organize a live music event they now have Musicians@Brown as a starting point.

A host of new opportunities are now available for students who previously had limited means for finding musicians in the Brown community. Musicians@Brown takes advantage of existing social networking websites and the upcoming transition of the Brown digital network to Google and will lead to increased sharing and interaction between Brown students. Users can access contact information provided on the database, discuss ideas on the group forum, upload their music to share with a wider audience, receive immediate feedback, and join on new musical environments that may not have been previously possible. The accessibility of the database will enable greater exposure for participating musicians and ultimately result in more live musical sessions on campus. A unified musical community spanning the range of musical genres and styles will make creative collaboration and incorporation more integral to the Brown community at large.

The success and functionality of Musicians@Brown depends on your input and the more people that participate the greater the benefit the site can provide. If you are interested in the project, you can join the Musicians@Brown Facebook group and fill out the musician database form.

The project is a gateway for new musical collaboration and artistic exploration but is part of a broader goal to integrate a community of all types of artists in and beyond Brown’s campus. The site model is exportable and can be used as a template for use at other universities and in order to align the objectives of the site with the needs of its users feedback is encouraged.

Let’s work together to promote artistic unity and connectedness at Brown and use Musicians@Brown as the start of a movement for unprecedented creative collaboration on campus and beyond. For an early look at the Musicians@Brown project, read Clay Aldern's article "Why Can't We All Just Play Together?" featured in Post Magazine.