Archive for April, 2010

Getting fans from the grassroots

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

As a solo hobby artist who does more studio work than live work, I constantly struggle to get new listeners to hear my music. The obvious hope is that by exposing as many people as possible to my songs, a few of them might purchase something, and a few of THOSE people might recommend me to someone else. Building that promotional web is hugely important in exponentially increasing the reach of your music.

Artist Josh Rosenthal explains his own take on this, and other grassroots marketing techniques in action, in a podcast he recently did with CD Baby.

Listen to the podcast here.

A new home for myself

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Up until a few days ago, my sole website has been Chance’s End. Though most of the content there has been about my violin breakbeat-electronica music project, I have lots of information about audio engineering (both behind the console and behind the keyboard) and “making-of” content that I have held off on posting until I found a proper home.

In the next few days,  I plan on refining the site layout a bit to match a style I had for an older version of my website. Then, I’ll begin culling through my saved material and posting bits about my production process every week or so.