t r y ^ d is one of the world's first 'virtual bands'.

a virtual band is a group that is formed of musicians who collaborate online, using this net for song composition, as well as distribution.

the three founding tryad members, vavrek, rjmarshall, and john holowach had never met each other before working together through the open music forum of opsound.org.

tryad has since bloomed into a global collaboration of artists.

all tryad tracks are released free for download under a creative commons license which grants legal permission for sharing, sampling, and remixing.

this means that you yourself are invited to become involved, taking these sounds into whatever direction you like.

you are forever free to share tryad music with your friends, download it, upload it, sample it, remix it, use as a video soundtrack, or even sell it, using tryad for any commerical purpose.

just credit the artists involved and do not restrict anyone else's use of this music.

with combined advancements in networking technologies and creative commons licensing, musicians everywhere are now capable of a direct link with each other and with audiences.

we do not need to ask permission from publishers to record and distribute extremely high quality music.

create and share!

welcome to this now age renaissance!