So modest Mark! I love it when the sounds developing in the cups of my headphones sound really nice and melodies, harmonies start to emerge. Plus Substack is a decent place to share such journeys with likeminded people.
I appreciate you sharing your thinking, Mark. Do you just chalk it up to bandwidth? Did your YouTube workload deplete energy for music projects? I share a lot of your sentiments. It's certainly all a balancing act. I'm admittedly an edge-case Bandcamp user, but it wasn't really a platform that was organically working for me... perhaps in part because my release schedule is very frequent, not unlike a YouTube creator, actually.
Hi Chad. Yes I think you're right. I'm fairly new to YouTube and it's still hard work to get in front of the camera, and film and edit videos, good fun but difficult. So I haven't have my usual time or energy left for music, just enough to record a lot of starting points! Still working on that balance. There are so many things that I like doing, YT, Substack and all sorts of music making that it's hard to give them all enough time. I've also never had much traction on Bandcamp but to be honest if I sell one album there then it's more successful than streaming for me. Perhaps you could look at the subscription model on Bandcamp for your work, more and more people are using that now? 👍
I am a Swedish visual artist and filmmaker based in Stockholm at the moment but with a previous lifetime in NYC. Been around music forever, either playing, making sound design for my own installations or in collabs but have slowly moved into my own sound work and just wanted to reach out and say hello and let you know that your last post resonated with me with sitting on so many beginnings of work but having a hard time moving forward and finishing up. Like for many of us it’s the balance between money work, teaching (in my case), my visual art practice as well being a father to a 10-year-old. And now a wish to make sound a larger part of my practice. Anyway, I love your work and process and sharing and you are currently quite the inspiration for me. So, thank you! 🙏
Hi Peter! Thank you so much for your comment I really appreciate it. It’s really great to hear about you and I'm so happy you’re finding it useful, it spurs me on! 🙌
So modest Mark! I love it when the sounds developing in the cups of my headphones sound really nice and melodies, harmonies start to emerge. Plus Substack is a decent place to share such journeys with likeminded people.
Thanks for listening Nick! 🙏
I appreciate you sharing your thinking, Mark. Do you just chalk it up to bandwidth? Did your YouTube workload deplete energy for music projects? I share a lot of your sentiments. It's certainly all a balancing act. I'm admittedly an edge-case Bandcamp user, but it wasn't really a platform that was organically working for me... perhaps in part because my release schedule is very frequent, not unlike a YouTube creator, actually.
Hi Chad. Yes I think you're right. I'm fairly new to YouTube and it's still hard work to get in front of the camera, and film and edit videos, good fun but difficult. So I haven't have my usual time or energy left for music, just enough to record a lot of starting points! Still working on that balance. There are so many things that I like doing, YT, Substack and all sorts of music making that it's hard to give them all enough time. I've also never had much traction on Bandcamp but to be honest if I sell one album there then it's more successful than streaming for me. Perhaps you could look at the subscription model on Bandcamp for your work, more and more people are using that now? 👍
Hello Mark!
I am a Swedish visual artist and filmmaker based in Stockholm at the moment but with a previous lifetime in NYC. Been around music forever, either playing, making sound design for my own installations or in collabs but have slowly moved into my own sound work and just wanted to reach out and say hello and let you know that your last post resonated with me with sitting on so many beginnings of work but having a hard time moving forward and finishing up. Like for many of us it’s the balance between money work, teaching (in my case), my visual art practice as well being a father to a 10-year-old. And now a wish to make sound a larger part of my practice. Anyway, I love your work and process and sharing and you are currently quite the inspiration for me. So, thank you! 🙏
Hi Peter! Thank you so much for your comment I really appreciate it. It’s really great to hear about you and I'm so happy you’re finding it useful, it spurs me on! 🙌
The same here. Too many unfinished tracks/albums. I really need to focus and get the next project completed.