[ Closed ] How much do chip musicians make? (Page 6 of 9)

at a guess about 90% of the chip community are other chip musicians. if you want to sell more I'd suggest:

* don't publicise your work only in the chip community..
* don't publicise your work only on blogs made by your friends.
* don't label your work chiptune/chipmusic outside of the community, as it comes with a lot of baggage.  call it electronic music or if you focus on one genre call it that genre.  if THEY call it chipmusic then fine, but chances are they'll tag it in a genre with a broader base.
* remember, nobody gives a damn what you wrote it on if they like it. (and don't go on about what hardware you use, using X to make Y stopped being a novelty years ago and stops the music being the focus)

whatever you're making there will be people out there who like it, but if you only try selling to your peers you'll never extend your audience.  seeing a playlist which is 99% other styles and a couple of your tracks is THE BEST FEELING.  honestly.

edit: and this is in no way dismissing the chipmusic community, before people start flaming.

Last edited by 4mat (Jun 24, 2012 1:55 pm)

That's how you get stuck with music only other musicians like to hear...

That's what titles like "chipmusic is dead" are for. Seriously, though, lack of desire to reach outside the norm is what causes stagnation. Consider this of you dislike the stuff in the "best of 2012" thread.

These are in direct competition.  I still play for people all the time who find the Chiptune creation process to be 'novel' (or novelty). I still find joy in telling other people about my music process and WHY I do it.  I guess I don't have a problem with it because I'm not afraid of my music standing on its own, explaining the process only enhances it, if the person cares to know.

This couldn't be more wrong.

This. All of this.

The only people that care about that are here, if the music wants a wider acceptance on it's own merits it should distance itself from the process of how the music is made. Pretty much every chip article sounds like an excerpt from Sound on Sound and we're past the point where it's the journalist's fault.

Listen, I have zero issue with discussing music on a purely musical level, but I feel like the process, when correctly portrayed, enhances how someone might feel about it. It's sort of like comparing demos to Hollywood CGI.  Do you think during the comparison they're not going to mention "oh by the way this is only 64k".

Well then I guess I know A LOT of nerds. Everyone I know who experiences chipmusic for the first time, likes it more when they find out which hardware it was actually made on and that it's not faux-bit. If it's fake-bit they get disappointed. To them it's more exciting to know that someone programmed a machine that they used to play Pokemon on. It's not a bad thing. And I think people wonder what music is made on a lot more then you think. Especially Electronica like this.