If change is what you want, start with yourself. Play a genre you don't normally play, look for talent where you don't normally look, and when you find that talent, send them here.
There is merit in collecting email addresses, a music site that spams me insists that collecting emails is the best way to build rapport with fans, as well as learning where to have gigs, etc. Do what's comfortable, we all know your stuff is good.
i think that you should release your music on some original format of your own devising, that allows only listeners of the purest intentions to witness, via a mechanism that requires them to prove their worthiness by solving a series of progressively more complex riddles based on clues hidden in your previous works and aspects of your astrological chart.
Video games: the only medium that makes you prove you are worthy to experience the next section of content....
I always think if you aren't hyped about releasing your music, why should anyone else be?
This, so hard - I also think it's weird when artists won't wear their own t-shirts - you're happy to sell them to other people, but not to wear them yourself? lol wtf m8
I stopped wearing t shirts about 8 years ago, though I've started again the ones I wear are blank...
If you need another person's help to decide that something is good, do you really like anything in the first place? When people show extreme enthusiasm I get the impression that they lie to themselves as well as others, which makes promotion a difficult balancing act.
I enjoy the process of creating music above all else. It doesn't matter if it has beeps, robot voices, or squeaking guitars, you like it or you don't and that's it. In a month I'll make another track anyway.
i feel super ashamed to even attempt any element of press or goodwill to a listener
i just want you all to fuck off
I don't feel that strongly but I dislike self-promotion. I have to make myself post in six different places, figuring out the net results of each, realizing I only get good results in one or two internet venues, and that few places will like the broad range of my music.
how would you guys measure a "thriving" scene? is it the number of active artists, or fans, or show attendance?
I'd honestly say that it's a combination of the three! but I'm interested to hear how it works in other communities
It is combination of three with the latter being most important. That goes for any kind of music btw.
While I recognize the importance of the artist (and so should the audience) as many times as I have created music alone at home I have never considered it an event...
