Self-Promotion via a Series of Tubes
I've started shamelessly shoving my music in everyone's face again. I've posted my podcast on every podcast directoy I could find.
I've also posted almost all of my music at the podsafe music network (basically telling podcasters that they can use my music in their shows). I kind of got carried away.
Much to my shock, three of my (older) tracks appear on a Polish podcast, supposedly a summary of the hottest new tracks posted to the podsafe network. They only play short clips of each song, but there's also commentary. Unfortunately, it is in Polish, so I can't tell what he's saying about me...
I've sent a heads-up to the wonderful dadacast, hopefully they'll play another of my tracks again.
I've started using GarageBand.com again, it's been well over a year now. Of course, it won't be my ticket to the top (in spite of what their marketing wants me to believe) but it is really the only good place I've found on the Internet to get peer reviews of my music.
I came across some very interesting personal messages while there. Some people seemed to be huge fans of me back in '05, and I completely blew them off! Then there's this interesting message:
" Hi
I'm booking up & coming bands for the Emergenza Festival in 112 venues across the U.S. in such clubs as the Avalon in Boston, the Metro and Double Door in Chicago.
I was wondering if Savant Trigger would be interested in taking part."
Oops. Looks like Savant Trigger missed out on his first gig opportunity- not that I would have been able to perform live in the fall of '05 (or even now, really, although I'm getting ever closer). In the end it's some kind of huge battle of the bands-but it would have been a lot of fun :).
Who knows, my tracks have improved even more in the last year, I might get another offer...
EDIT: I've been played on another podcast already...Buster's Charity Show, out of the UK. Unfortunately, they played The Nihilist, which is just a terrible vocal performance on my part (it's ear-splittingly flat). I got a good laugh out of the DJ trying to pronounce "The Nihilist", though. He said that he's "terrible with foreign languages." :)
(BTW, you can pronounce it either as the NILE-IST or the NEEL-IST).
Too bad he skipped my name in the show notes, though.
I've also posted almost all of my music at the podsafe music network (basically telling podcasters that they can use my music in their shows). I kind of got carried away.
Much to my shock, three of my (older) tracks appear on a Polish podcast, supposedly a summary of the hottest new tracks posted to the podsafe network. They only play short clips of each song, but there's also commentary. Unfortunately, it is in Polish, so I can't tell what he's saying about me...
I've sent a heads-up to the wonderful dadacast, hopefully they'll play another of my tracks again.
I've started using GarageBand.com again, it's been well over a year now. Of course, it won't be my ticket to the top (in spite of what their marketing wants me to believe) but it is really the only good place I've found on the Internet to get peer reviews of my music.
I came across some very interesting personal messages while there. Some people seemed to be huge fans of me back in '05, and I completely blew them off! Then there's this interesting message:
" Hi
I'm booking up & coming bands for the Emergenza Festival in 112 venues across the U.S. in such clubs as the Avalon in Boston, the Metro and Double Door in Chicago.
I was wondering if Savant Trigger would be interested in taking part."
Oops. Looks like Savant Trigger missed out on his first gig opportunity- not that I would have been able to perform live in the fall of '05 (or even now, really, although I'm getting ever closer). In the end it's some kind of huge battle of the bands-but it would have been a lot of fun :).
Who knows, my tracks have improved even more in the last year, I might get another offer...
EDIT: I've been played on another podcast already...Buster's Charity Show, out of the UK. Unfortunately, they played The Nihilist, which is just a terrible vocal performance on my part (it's ear-splittingly flat). I got a good laugh out of the DJ trying to pronounce "The Nihilist", though. He said that he's "terrible with foreign languages." :)
(BTW, you can pronounce it either as the NILE-IST or the NEEL-IST).
Too bad he skipped my name in the show notes, though.