Finally got the whole EP loaded to Mirlo.space the link is https://mirlo.space/jaypeach53/releases to my whole catalog there. The new release is called “Noise Revisited”. Preview the songs or buy outright, whichever you like.
Month: July 2025
A Note
I’ve started another blog at https://all-about-music.ghost.io to cover slightly different topics than I cover here. I’ll also be posting more frequently there. Like this WordPress blog there’s no subscription fee to read most posts, though I’m hoping if you find the content useful that you’ll opt for one of the paying tiers.
The one big difference is that when you subscribe, either here or on all about music, you get emailed to you a copy of all posts, so you may not want more cruft in your mailbox.
Garbage Picking, Part 4
I finally got around to hooking up the RCA plugs which are the only output jacks on the Clavinova CVP-50. Next step was to connect it up to the Zoom H8 portable digital recorder to see if the RCA plugs were connected to the right connectors on the Clavinova. At this point, the recorder was showing signal from the Clavinova when I started the Clavinova to play some music.
So I turned on the recorder to record something and it worked! I think the recorder to connected up AUX jacks on the Clavinova, though I don’t know whether I’ve got the right and left jacks connected up correctly, because there is a difference in the signals from the Clavinova. Gotta find a mirror to look at the connectors on the Clavinova because what I’m using as a reference is the French section of the user’s manual and the section with a description of the connectors is quite small and not detailed enough.
Shamless Plug
For new viewers, here’s a site you might want to visit: https://linktr.ee/jaypeach53. It’s got links to my music and other sites that might be of interest.
InstaGram Woes
Well, I got back on InstaGram in a very limited way. I’m using IG to post promotions of my music as the Apple Music promotions seem to get 30-40 clicks a month. Not much, but apparently IG has stopped shadowbanning me, at least for some content, as 30% of views I get are from non-followers. Still facing the reality that IG deals in sex discrimination, as 80% of my viewers are male.
Another bothersome reality is that IG stories are not getting any views. As of today, I’ve posted 44 pieces of content to IG (mostly stories) and only 14 of them got any views.
Heres’s some stats:
More on Mirlo
I keep reading that the way to make money off the music biz nowadays is to put your music on platforms like Mirlo and BandCamp to get fans to purchase your music instead of streaming your music from some DSP for hundreds and hundreds less money. Admittedly, this makes sense other than the market for platforms like Mirlo and BandCamp is minimal compared to the DSPs. After all, I’ve been on BandCamp for almost 5 years and have plays totaling less than one days plays on 5-6 DSPs.
Garbage Picking, Part 3
I have gotten to the point that most nights, after it has cooled off, I wipe down the Clavinova, and set it up to do a set of rhythms and then riff to those rhythms. It’s been so much fun to do that I’ve neglected to do the music making that’ll result in an album I’m trying to put together for the https:// Mirlo.space web site, mainly to see if I can make some money off of Mirlo.
And another thing about the Clavinova that I may not have mentioned before is that it not only has, I think, 31 rhythms in its repertoire, but each of those rhythms has a variation that you can switch back and forth between. What a find! I don’t think the Casio CGP-700 that I paid hundreds for is as much fun to experiment with. Admittedly, I bought the Casio 10 years ago, when I first started playing keyboards after a decades-long hiatus, and the experience I’ve acquired is greatly enhancing the enjoyment I get from playing an instrument.
TikTok QR code
For as long as TikTok lasts:
Statistics
Here’s the statistics for the top 20 countries to have visited this site. Modest growth, but I’ll take what I can get, just like the music I do.
