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By Subhash K Jha

For the live recording on January 21 at Yashraj Studios of the first ever song to be done in participation with online listeners on two popular mircro blogs, Adnan Sami garnered a whopping 475,000 participants.

The number of people who joined in to listen and to participate as Adnan recorded his tribute to his father, has encouraged the composer-singer to now attempt a whole album with live participants online pitching in with their suggestions. The proposed album will have tracks dedicated to Adnan's fans who would be contributing actively to every composition.

Explains Adnan, "When I recorded Main tere paas hoon for my father last Friday I thought I would give my fans and listeners a chance to share a very precious recording moment with me. We expected around 65, 000 participants. We got 475, 000 very active, very vocal and excitable people coming online with their ideas and suggestions."

Many people who listened in made suggestions and corrections in the music.

Exclaims Adnan, "I was taken aback by their inner understanding of a song composition. I was on my laptop.I'd do a line and then a number of people with some very interesting usernames would pipe in. There were people who actually made suggestions that improved the quality of my number. I incorporated these suggestions."

The entire process of recording live at Yashraj with massive online participation will be shown on television. "It was history.No song in any part of the world has been recorded in this way, " says Adnan trying hard to sound modest.

Now Adnan intends to carry the online recording session even further.An entire album devoted to music created by him and the 500, 000-odd Adnan-o-philes from all over the world is now being worked out.

The only drawback to doing music open to his fans is that they tend to get too close for comfort.

Laughs Adnan, "Firstly some of them have embarrassing usenames like 'hard-on' and 'dickhead'. It sounds really weird to call them out online by such names. We've to find a way out of this. Also some of then get very upset when their suggestions are not incorporated.

That apart, the whole process of bringing to life a song with the active participation of thousands of people just puts the whole creative process into a different perspective. Done in this way with online inputs my songs become the creative and intellectual property of the listeners."