Here it is August 16 and I had a snippet of a tune playing in my head, I suppose it’s time to do something about it. Try to work out some of the particulars. I have a sequencer part worked out and now I have to figure out what to do with the rest.
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A Couple of Art Pieces
Here’s a couple of art pieces I’ve done over the past few months.
And this:
Yeah, it’s abstract art with no real discernable influences. I suppose you might think the first picture has Piet Mondrian influences, but it’s much like stuff I was doing when I was 10-12 years old, like this
Yeah, that picture is more than 60 years old.
Promotion
I decided to give a promotion company some business when I had a better month than usual with a decent distribution from Distrokid. I chose Apolone for a one month campaign for one of my songs
I decided to give the one month campaign a try although I never used Apolone before. This is the result of an almost completed campaign.
With this as additional support, of just the featured song:
So, 2,840 listeners in 28 days for a really bizarre sub-genre. Is that good? It’s better than I expected. At least I didn’t have to go through the bother of trying to hunt down playlists and then pitch my song to them. And now I have and idea of which playlists to pitch to in the future.
Another Ghost .io Post
This one’s on Muso.AI, a credits database harvesting app/web site Here’s the link https://all-about-music.ghost.io/muso-ai-a-scam/.
For indie musicians, it doesn’t seem to be a good fit, as IDK what they bring to the table. I mean, if you’ve ever been played by someone trying to cut you out of a musical composition, IDK what Muso.AI is help with a situation like that.
Garbage Picking, Part 5
Well, I seemed to have fried the outputs from the Clavinova. Nothing but a low hum eminates from the 2 sets of outputs I’ve tried. Bummer.
Mirlo.space
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.
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.
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.
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