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 20 Feb 2003 @ 18:24
I received a story today about the transformation of the music industry. Being an independent musician/producer, I have struggled with the personality apsects that want fame and fortune, knowing full well that the stress probably would have caused a self destruct and that my creative license might have been revoked by the marketeers.
Starting from the ground up, my grassroots sort of approach has enabled me a huge sense of freedom as well as opportunities to explore a myraid of styles that have been incorporated into dance, theater, video, album, workshop settings. And...thank God/dess I have other revenue streams that feed my belly.
The music industry has been like this large, looming, plodding authority figure that has total control of whether my music is heard or financially successful. I say this in past tense, because there is just a plethora of online advantages now for artists and because of this the music industry is transforming. This is a great article written Peter Spellman from the Berkely School of Music.
I chose to create my own website, as well as have free downloads on an mp3.com site and CDbaby. Though I don't get a lot of traffic I love the serendipitous nature of the emails I receive. I've always appreciated passive marketing approaches rather than in your face, sellsell buybuy. Music is such a personal experience for the composer and listener and the internet has closed the gap so a relationship can exist between the two.
Well, that's all for now. I'll continue this stream of thought at a later date.
Peace Through Music,
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| Tuesday, February 18, 2003 | |
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 18 Feb 2003 @ 18:27
Bring Your Own Cup...
Just a thought. I read this the other day.
A message from our beautiful Gaia, please bring and use your own non-disposable cup (preferably ceramic or metal) if you stop to get a hot drink sometime during your day.
Each 24 hours American citizens generate 25 million empty, i.e. throw away, ie. trash, i.e. land fill hot drink cups.
BYOC More >
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 18 Feb 2003 @ 13:51
Letecia bought some family tree software and made it available to me. I realized no one in my family had interviewed my parents or chronicled in detail our family history. (of course depending how many branches I pursue it could take me back to the first few bi-peds somewhere in Africa or Asia depending on what theory you adhere too)
So I've begun to record the stories of my mother (Ukrainian descent) and father (Polish descent)and researching on the web whatever I could find. there a lot. Ellis Island immigration reports, books translated to english specifically about my father's hometown,etc. etc. I've pretty much completed the info. aspect and now have begun scanning the photos and maps to add them to the files. It's a great software program called Family Origins.
There is a sense of family pride that I'm feeling for the first time and a deeper understanding of myself; why I do and think the things I do and think. Also, it's fascinating to connect the dots of all those people I met when I was a child who we are no longer in touch with, yet are cousins, or aunts etc. People who I failed at the time to ask questions of or listen to THEIR stories.
As the family tree expands from our personal his/hertory to collective his/hertory, I begin to see much more clearly and viscerally that ther is only one family and that the seeming separation is an illusion and that competitiveness is a lousy and unsustainable way to utilize energy and that resources are here for everyone in the larger global family to have access to. More >
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| Monday, February 17, 2003 | |
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 17 Feb 2003 @ 17:10
Well, here I am, after some poking and proding from Letecia Layson and Flemming Funch. I'm one of those people that says they don't have much to say, yet then goes on and shares tons of resources, stories, experiences etc.
I have cultivated a skill of witnessing, listening, sitting in the silence until there is an impulse that stirs and moves me into action. Something that I have come to call Simple Brilliance and... the simplest systems sometimes have a unique and complex coalescence (I love that word).
So here, I'll be posting my personal poetry /lyrics and music ,talk about sustainable/permaculture lifestyles,gourd crafting and the healing arts.
I'll also probably be subjecting you to various musings, resources and social commentary that steadily streams across my desk.
So here it goes...the red pill...IT is Real IT is Rael More >
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