Thoughts on a “exquisite corpse” collaborative project?

That sounds really interesting. I'm interested, not sure how this is done with music but I'm interested. Nothing wrong with a bit of cutup. The worst that could happen is that we summon the late William S. Burroughs. 

Love the idea! I would love to try to be a part in this.

So how would this work? One person starts with a track, then sends it to another person who adds to it, either overdubbing or extending it before sending that to the next person?

How many artists can be in one group?

If we like what comes out of it, we could turn it into an album under the AEtherwaves Label. I'd be happy to organise that.

I think the main goals for me would be having fun and collaboration, and we’re going to have to pick our guidelines well to be both surprised and create something musical. (Thinking about how sound works as opposed to images, words, etc.)

I see a couple of different options for process:

1. Either a more collaborative approach where music gets passed from person to person, each adding material before passaging it onto a new person. (More the 24 hour play method or what admin suggested). We could do this in a way that each person starts a song, adds to another song, and then adds a final layer to another song.

2. Experimental approach where each person only gets a little information as to what they are adding on to before making and adding their part. (The exquisite corpse or “cut up “ approach.) 

As far as rules to the game some ideas:

 1. We could exchange sections or layers, i.e. a ‘verse’ vs a ‘track’ or both?

2. It tends to go better when someone has enough information that there’s a similar spirt in all the parts. For the collaborative approach this is built in but for the experimental approach some ideas might be to get 20 seconds of audio from the previous piece (as @p3tr suggested), note and scale information, or a random phrase to respond to. 

To expand on that a little, and I'm sorry in advance if this comes off wrong, I suppose what I'm trying to say is that sometimes preconceptions can be a really limiting factor.

As an example, I really didn't like what was done to my waves 3 submit (no offence to whoever mastered it - I can see why they took the decisions they did), as it attempted to pull what was essentially a bass drone/'feeling' into something more balanced, killing the intention in the process. I mean, it was a terrible track anyway, but the end result takes out the whole pint of the track, as it 'should sound balsnced'. My point would be it should sound how I wanted it to sound, but preconception took that in a different direction. And again, apologies for offence to whoever did the master - I understand why, you generously gave it your time and it's simply the result of having no dialogue over the finished article.

I'd personally be more interested in this approach with little to no limitations - I quite like the idea of seeing what comes out of nothing but the links made - ie a complete work made up of however many parts.

Perhaps there in lies an approach - you sign up to collaborate via subgenres: 145bpm Techno, 88bpm dub, 165bpm breakcore... just put me in the 'no genre/experimental' group and don't dare master it!