Radio Silence
Jun 9, 2008 Uncategorized
It’s been ages since I’ve posted an update. Why? Well, the bulk of that answer is that life has been keeping me busy elsehwere. However, also for the next couple of months I’m going to be tied up with… well… I’m not sure what to call them. What is it when you’re “commissioned” to do something but you’re not actually getting paid? Volunteer projects?
Anyway, it’s pretty exciting. I’ll be doing the opening and closing credits and interstitials for a television show and then some theme music for a play. I received a copy of the show about a month ago and have mostly thus far just fiddled with getting the video loaded in Logic and figuring out a good tempo to sync with the transitions and such. I just got a copy of the script for the play over the weekend. Work will have to begin in earnest on both projects shortly!
Here are a few questions for the audience in the meantime, though. For those of you who are faily familiar with the releases, do you think I should merge Fountains and Orchard Days into a single album (which I would probably just call Orchard Days)? Do you think that album / EP / single groupings even matter in this day and age?
Also, what do you think would be the most productive thing to do for the work if I were to toss some money at the “getting the word out” end of things? There is a company who offers a service that will get your tracks posted for sale on iTunes, Amazon, PureTracks, etc. — all the major online music shops. That would certainly get me wider distribution, but I’d still have to think about promotion to get people to notice that distribution. (I’d also have to figure out how that sort of approach intermeshes with the Creative Commons licensing I’m using these days.) On the other hand, I could buy advertising for the site somewhere. Facebook? They let you target ads fairly finely, but they’re also a little expensive. Where else? Maybe pay to have the material highlighted on Jamendo? Reviews of Fountains on Jamendo are pretty much nonexistent, possibly because A Quiet Sunday is such a slow starter, so people didn’t stick with it to hear out the rest of the album. Somewhere else? Or should I just take a block of time (the rarest commodity these days) and try to drum up interest on Jamendo and other places just by chatting the material up, and/or submitting reviews of other people’s material and hoping they’ll reciprocate?
Or should I perhaps just get started on new material and not worry about all of this at all? Thoughts?