npub1jtm4dxvu3ccgk60wvvt0uw9j9vz7nuc80f7agrv0vgkkushxk5zq0rrxtn (npub1jtm…rxtn) npub1kx88r5fwraryqzcvtnqnv6emncs44azr58w0wsr39qeq38tmrw5sj00sus (npub1kx8…0sus) npub1pvfcwtwjsa7azwm4gkh00zx42mns9n0yqek4zf02trzm4nnm2keqvq093g (npub1pvf…093g) I should point out that I’m seeing a separate market to the ‘make a living from music’ market of music makers
It’s the natural thing to do when starting out that one would think that one day one will become famous and rich and all that stuff, but that’s just a lottery (or if you’ve got enough finance to bully your way in, then give pluggers whatever they ask for, that’s also a valid strategy if the music is actually good)
So there’s the artist without necessarily a day job and all the time in the world to practice, get good, perform live etc, but in most cases they won’t be good enough, won’t get gigs, won’t be motivated every day or even every month because it all seems to be against you
Then there’s the day job person who might have been through the previous but now has a mortgage and too many guitars, mostly covered in dust – a lot of my synth colleagues are in this category and they start things in DAWs but never ever finish them, they sometimes livestream a ‘jam session’ on synths but that’s just unstructured experimentation and you’re unlikely to walk away whistling the hook half an hour afterwards
The area I increasingly see is valid is the one where you just throw out any notion of making any money out of it – not even tips or sales, just completely divorce the music making act from the money getting act
If you know it’s not going to sell, if you know it’s not going to compete, I think there’s a chance there of conjuring something truly new and innovative and of tomorrow
Any time an artist has even at the back of their mind the idea that they’ll have to compete and have to be ‘as good as’ one of the lottery winner artists, any time an artist wants to get tips or money from their tiny sales, they’re inevitably going to bend their work toward making it ‘like’ music that’s already out there
And that’s one of the unseen disasters of streaming – it’s such a big audience that anyone anywhere in the world wants the same stuff as they’re used to, so all bands all artists everywhere in the world all become homogenous
Ian Tindale /
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2023-07-09 13:15:40
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