1) would you rather get the motifs in graphic notation (basically piano roll notation printed out) or would you rather get them as audio files on a CD or mp3 format or would you want both?
I guess I would prefer graphic (you mean like regular music notation?). If not then the mp3s would probably be best.
2) I am planning on setting up a blog specifically for the project on the musiced.net server - I am also going to have my students create podcasts occasionally
This sounds great.
Related to this point are you willing to:
a) communicate with my students in any of the following ways — via the project blog, via podcasting, via emails,
Yes, I think that’s an awesome idea. Like they’re getting instant feedback from me as the collaborating artist.
b) have the corespondence be public online?
Yes, of course. Why not share what we’re doing. It’s really cool.
c) Have the recordings of whatever you are playing be public online on the project blog? If you are willing this will make sending us the files really easy cause all you will have to do is log into our project blog and upload the files as mp3 files - when my students eventually get to the point where they are ready to work with the files we’ll need the .wav files to work with which you can ftp to the server ( I’ll give you a password etc)
Yes sure. That would probably be easiest for us.
d) Have your recorded files included on the podcasts? - this could be very very cool with having the kids actually commenting on your playing and the sound of the collaborative music on the podcast
That would be sweet.
3) Since this whole thing is collaborative how do you want to handle copyright of whatever the product is - I’m thinking since it is educational and all my students are minors we give it a creative commons license that both you, the students and me agree on?
Creative commons would be great. Sounds good to me.