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I’ve never wanted to hop in a van with a bunch of people and spend months on the road not knowing where I’m going to sleep at night,” explains William Osborne about his rock project Victoria Barnum, which utilizes digital recording and file sharing among the members to change the way a rock band operates. “The technology is available that almost anyone who wants to can make recordings.”

The band started when Osborne contacted other musicians he wanted to work with. They started trading tracks via e-mail to form the basis of the songs and then met at a plantation house in North Louisiana to take a pulse. Singer Jason Glenn affirms the success of their methods. “That weekend alone has proven that we have an understanding of where we want to go.” But despite the means used to create the music, Osborne explains the real impetus for the project: “Frankly, one of the things I want to do before I die is record some good music.”