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PSP planning class was a bit ARGH. We have to do a bit project in our fourht year, and this year we have to plan it and do the proposal. And I want to do a website where music will be available in various formats - mp3 files and pdfs of sheet music for free, but also people can buy CDs or printed sheet music (on nice paper etc.) for Real Munny (ie paypal) and the composers/performers/myself will get a cut.
Nobody seems to understand that I don't want to have anything on the site that can't be listened to or looked at online for free. Really, I don't. Music should be free. And I think for many starting-out composers, the difficulty is in getting their stuff performed. I'm thinking of Creative Commons licensing as a good framework; stuff is available for re-use or whatever but only if cited and perhaps not for commercial purposes. I also want people to be able to make up their own CD for purchase with different tracks from different artists and so on; yes, this will be a slight PITA, but those CDs will cost a little more and I think the idea of being able to make mix-CDs online is kindof neat.
So far the grown-ups all say, "Oh, you mean do like iTunes and have some tracks available free but make them pay to download the whole album?" NO that is not what I mean, I mean everything on the site is available free in at least one format. And of course, they don't think it will work.
They're telling that to someone who made her living for over a year busking in Tube stations. Nobody is obligated to give me money when I busk, and I prefer it that way. Okay, I get annoyed when people decide to take photos without asking, or decide they want to talk for ages without giving me any money, but on the whole it works - I play, people give me money. The number of people who are willing to show their support is enough that it works. And I've had external gigs and stuff from busking, as well, and the same would apply to the website - composers might get additional commissions, bands might get gigs, and so on as a result of their exposure. Exposure is the thing.
We don't currently have a framework and platform, that I know of, for this sort of thing online. I'd like to make one.
Anyway I got put with another horn player who wants to commission lots of new horn music, have a CD made and put on a launch concert. The idea is that we could have that stuff on the website right away, and advertise the website at the concert, and stuff. Due date is spring 2008, due date for proposal is May 2007 but I'd really like to get moving on this soon because composition takes time, rehearsal takes time, recording takes time... the website will require some programming. I may end up trying to use Lilypond after all, because publishing things with Sibelius may offend my dignity a bit too much, but I'll see. If I do that I'll do the bulk of the work next summer I think.
I think it could work, but I know from the outset I'm going to have trouble with the 'music should be free' part of things. If you have an idea of how I should approach this, let me know. In future I'll probalby stick this on the [academic] filter but today I want opinions from the lot of yas. (And if you want on the academic filter please say!)
Then improvisation class, which was not everything I'd hoped but should be decent at least.
Then horn class, which was good but I'm wearing earplugs next time, ten of us in a room that size and I'm not doing so well now eep and my ears are sore. Also it was very, VERY orchestral-based.
PSP planning class was a bit ARGH. We have to do a bit project in our fourht year, and this year we have to plan it and do the proposal. And I want to do a website where music will be available in various formats - mp3 files and pdfs of sheet music for free, but also people can buy CDs or printed sheet music (on nice paper etc.) for Real Munny (ie paypal) and the composers/performers/myself will get a cut.
Nobody seems to understand that I don't want to have anything on the site that can't be listened to or looked at online for free. Really, I don't. Music should be free. And I think for many starting-out composers, the difficulty is in getting their stuff performed. I'm thinking of Creative Commons licensing as a good framework; stuff is available for re-use or whatever but only if cited and perhaps not for commercial purposes. I also want people to be able to make up their own CD for purchase with different tracks from different artists and so on; yes, this will be a slight PITA, but those CDs will cost a little more and I think the idea of being able to make mix-CDs online is kindof neat.
So far the grown-ups all say, "Oh, you mean do like iTunes and have some tracks available free but make them pay to download the whole album?" NO that is not what I mean, I mean everything on the site is available free in at least one format. And of course, they don't think it will work.
They're telling that to someone who made her living for over a year busking in Tube stations. Nobody is obligated to give me money when I busk, and I prefer it that way. Okay, I get annoyed when people decide to take photos without asking, or decide they want to talk for ages without giving me any money, but on the whole it works - I play, people give me money. The number of people who are willing to show their support is enough that it works. And I've had external gigs and stuff from busking, as well, and the same would apply to the website - composers might get additional commissions, bands might get gigs, and so on as a result of their exposure. Exposure is the thing.
We don't currently have a framework and platform, that I know of, for this sort of thing online. I'd like to make one.
Anyway I got put with another horn player who wants to commission lots of new horn music, have a CD made and put on a launch concert. The idea is that we could have that stuff on the website right away, and advertise the website at the concert, and stuff. Due date is spring 2008, due date for proposal is May 2007 but I'd really like to get moving on this soon because composition takes time, rehearsal takes time, recording takes time... the website will require some programming. I may end up trying to use Lilypond after all, because publishing things with Sibelius may offend my dignity a bit too much, but I'll see. If I do that I'll do the bulk of the work next summer I think.
I think it could work, but I know from the outset I'm going to have trouble with the 'music should be free' part of things. If you have an idea of how I should approach this, let me know. In future I'll probalby stick this on the [academic] filter but today I want opinions from the lot of yas. (And if you want on the academic filter please say!)
Then improvisation class, which was not everything I'd hoped but should be decent at least.
Then horn class, which was good but I'm wearing earplugs next time, ten of us in a room that size and I'm not doing so well now eep and my ears are sore. Also it was very, VERY orchestral-based.