Well, I’ve decided to keep a journal of the musical ideas I’m working on. During August, I had 7 working sessions where I did recordings that I’m considering keeping. This apparently totalled over 20 songs. And the ideas that I had during those recording sessions have completely escaped me. So I’m planning to record my thoughts in a journal with notes on the details of the recording sessions.
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More Music
Taking a break from making music tonight. Yeah, it’s 3:20 am, but I’ll get back at it until 5 am. I find my most productive time is after 11pm. And since there a few dogs barking, the vocals I rarely record are without extraneous noise. One mic I have, the RØDE NT-1, can pick up sounds as quiet as 5dB.
Instagram Ban
Well, I’m probably going to get a full ban on Instagram, due to a reply I made on IG. Once again, I was warned that a comment I made was like ones that have been reported.
The strange thing is the comment was made in reply to a comment by Rudi Meibergen that said by my comments about the Spotify’s reaming of artists were childish. Even those comnents were about Spotify’s unsavory attempt to steal streams from artists with less than 1,000 streams on a song. Nothing in my comments was inaccurate, but Rudi the troll could help but commit character assasination with his ad hominem attack.
And Rudi, the non-musician, claimed to be a musician on the platform, which he’s not. He’s a producer with less than a 100 credits on Muso.AI, and from what I can tell, no output at all on Spotify. So, he has been is a bootlicker hoping to procure some advantage by his kowtowing to the oligarchs.
As stated on another IG post, Daniel Ek, the chief fraudster of Spotify, scored $365 million in a stock sale. An artist would have to accumulate 115 billion streams in a year to get that kind of money. A neat deal considering that Drake has only accumulated 15 billion streams over his entire career.
As an aside, I really don’t care if IG bans me completely. As I keep getting threatening messages from Zuckerberg the Kike, my reach has declined 90% and as you can see from this graphic from Linktree shows that I get almost no traffic from IG.
More Music?
I’m feeling the urge to make music tonight. Maybe using the Moog Sub 37 again. I was playing with it 2 nights ago and made one recording. Tonight might be another time to delve deeper to do some sound design.
I also need to apply myself to reexamine the other work I’ve created over the past few months to release or to abandon.
DistroKid Screws Creators
Some truths about the total insult to musicians that is the Roblox-DistroKid deal. First of all, this “deal” screws creators. We’re supposed to give Roblox a no payout at all license to use our music? Screw that. Its much like the “deal” they made with Snapchat. In return, we get at most more eyes on our music from an audience that views our music as a consumable. In other words, freeloaders.
Well Between a Stomache Bug and Music Making…
I’ve been too busy to make any blog entries. For about 7-10 days, I got out a number of synthesizers and spent hours fiddling around with them. I got especially good results from a few of them, and made some recordings.
Then disaster struck. I seem to have come down with either a stomache bug or food poisoning. I still haven’t fully recovered and still feel a little woozy. So as soon as I feel up to it, it’ll be time to review the recordings I made to see if they’re releasable material.
Music
What is your favorite genre of music?
I guesss one of my favorite genres is the blues, as I’ve got over 7,000 tracks in my library. However my days of playing the guitar have long passed. I suppose I’ve got arthritis; my hands and wrist ache almost constantly. I find keyboard work to be less painful. I eat these on a fairly frequent basis.
Handpan
I ordered a Handpan from Temu and I’m a little surprised at the size. It’s a big sucker. I’m guessing its about 30-36 inches across. I also have a small tongue drum, another far-eastern drum, which I’ve used to record some ambient-type sounds and released them. Looking forward to releasing some music made with this handpan.
Getting Some Traction on a Couple of Sites
Been seeing an upturn of streams on a couple of sites, namely Apple Music and SoundCloud. Both have upturns of 20% or more. And I’m waiting to see (from DistroKid, my distributor) whether the information gleaned from Songstats in relation to numbers from Beatport actually turn into money in my pocket. I think the positive numbers from Beatport was from activity in April or May. If it was April, I should start seeing data from DistroKid this month or August.
Vstalarm
I recently found a source of samples and stuff at a site called Vstalarm. However their funky site doesn’t allow me to download the samples I purchased. It’s been two weeks in a back and forth with Edgar of the site trying to get access to my samples. Sign me, getting annoyed.
