This story begins with Matty Twigg (CallsignScarecrow) who, just for fun began coordinating music collabs between streamers. Over time it became clear that the collabs had multiple benefits including helping members of the Twitch music community to come together, make new friends, learn more about music creation, gain exposure to new audiences, all while making some great music.

A few people helped Matty over the years, including a mod named Brittlestar. Working together Matty and Brittle grew the collabs in scale and frequency, adopting a unique name “Collabamajig” which was born out of saying collab thingamajig. It’s a fun thing to say, and equally fun to watch new people struggle to say it.

All collabamajigs have a similar format. Music streamers sign up to participate and names are then drawn at random to determine the groups. Those groups then work together to create a new song or cover song based on the theme of the collab. Part of the challenge is learning about your partner and adapting to find a way to incorporate the instruments, skills and styles of both partners.

The theme changes for each collab, and towards the end of the year we run a special Christmas themed collab which is unique in having the additional goal of raising money for a charity through the release of an album on Bandcamp and  fundraising on Tiltify.

Collabamajigs are now run by a small team of people helping out behind the scenes, a large number of music streamers actively participating, and a wonderful community supporting music on Twitch that help spread the word and celebrate the results.