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October 16, 2007

Sonicbids EPK

OK, so at long last I have signed up for a Sonicbids account so I can enter "12 Good Bars and True" into the International Songwriting Competition. At Big Sound I met Ford Englander, who is Sonicids' Director of Operations....
Posted by Hughie at 1:04 PM | Comments (0)

August 29, 2007

Brushes with Stardom

OK, after two days in Nashville, I have Interviewd Janis Ian and David Hooper, and visited the Bluebird cafe and Country Music Hall of Fame. Didn't get to play at the Bluebird this time around. Interviews went well. Data were...
Posted by Hughie at 2:22 PM | Comments (0)

August 13, 2007

Sold some on Amie Street!

Just got the sales report showing that I have sold $7.50 worth of files on Amie Street. These were all Bun' Ber E tunes, basically amounting to both albums and a single track - plus some others that haven't shown...
Posted by Hughie at 4:32 PM | Comments (0)

August 8, 2007

Feedback on album

Spoke to Steve about this on Tuesday and thought I'd better blog it. He had three criticisms of the album, which he'd been listening to in his car for a couple of days. I write too much from the page...
Posted by Hughie at 12:47 PM | Comments (0)

Notes on Distribution

OK, I have uploaded The GBs album and both Bun' Ber E Albums to www.amiestreet.com and to www.lastfm.com. They have been there a week or two now, and took quite some effort over several days to upload because of bandwidth...
Posted by Hughie at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)

July 18, 2007

Sending out the promos

OK, I've prepared copies to be sent to Nova 106.9 (addressed to Kate Casey, who my former student, Kate Young, tells me is Music Director in Brisbane (and a Google search confirmed this), Ison Live Radio (who have previously supported...
Posted by Hughie at 8:32 AM | Comments (0)

June 14, 2007

Oh well ...

John Butler's manager just knocked back my request for an interview. Never mind. I think I have enough people to interview to get a good handle on how this might work. Also contacted Ani Defranco's people about an interview. Apparently...
Posted by Hughie at 5:40 PM | Comments (0)

June 8, 2007

Heading overseas ...

Now that the album is mostly done (I'm taking a few days away from it and will get back to it next week) I've started planning my data collection. This was mainly going to consist or interviews with various artists...
Posted by Hughie at 12:09 PM | Comments (0)

May 17, 2007

THAT NYT article

It's great to have friends. I got this New York Times article from four unrelated sources - including my supervisor, Phil, and it's so important to what I'm doing. It's a great case analysis of what artists can do to...
Posted by Hughie at 9:03 AM | Comments (0)

January 16, 2007

Invitation via Q-Music

At last, the invitation has gone out via Q-Music's e-mail newsletter and website. This has produced four additional responses already. Of course, it's too little, too late, but each additional reponse will add to the depth of the data and...
Posted by Hughie at 11:06 AM | Comments (0)

December 19, 2006

Double frustration!!

Got two bits of bad news in a day. On Thursday my application for funding was knocked back and on the same day the Future of Music Coalition newsletter came out without mentioning me at all. I e-mailed Chhaya to...
Posted by Hughie at 3:51 PM | Comments (0)

December 12, 2006

More books to read

Yesterday, two books that I ordered from Amazon arrived. They are: The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Revolution by Dave Kusek and Gerd Leonhard, whic I've started first and is big on the "Music Like Water" thesis. Interesting...
Posted by Hughie at 9:29 AM | Comments (0)

December 11, 2006

No so bad.

OK, so, after closer inspection, the data wasn't lost. It was all the result of a bad format conversion in download. This means I don't have to ask everyone who's completed the survey so far to do so again -...
Posted by Hughie at 3:00 PM | Comments (0)

December 8, 2006

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!!!!

After noticing a glitch in an e-mailed response, I asked about my data to date. Graham sent me the 47 responses so far and thought the glitch was absent. He was right - the glitch I suspected WAS absent, but...
Posted by Hughie at 4:44 PM | Comments (0)

Well, no, that didn't work ...

Seems yesterday's efforts have largely been lost in the great mass of MySpace self-promotion that passes through groups. For example, this morning my bulletin to the Musician's Exchange group is number 29 on their list. It comes after one called...
Posted by Hughie at 10:40 AM | Comments (0)

December 7, 2006

Amazing success?

I've just received a response from a guy in Tasmania who says he uses the Music Is Life group in MySpace. Hopefully that's where he heard about my survey and hopefully his response is typical of members of the group...
Posted by Hughie at 4:26 PM | Comments (0)

Promoting even more

Two days ago I got 9 responses to the survey in 24 hours and thought things were looking up. Last night I got ... none. So, yesterday and today have been devoted to promoting the survey. The wonderful Tracey Saxby...
Posted by Hughie at 1:11 PM | Comments (0)

December 1, 2006

At last!

The response rate to my survey seems to be picking up a bit but it's still hopelessly low. This morning I got the Muse's News e-mail and the questionnaire is mentioned there - thanks, Jodie! The press release is also...
Posted by Hughie at 8:54 AM | Comments (0)

November 29, 2006

Third-party Technical failures

Today I realised that expecting my ISP to fix the damn spam problem is futile. Consequently, I have begun re-contacting people about the media release and invitation using my QUT student e-mail address. Arguably, this was a better practice in...
Posted by Hughie at 10:10 AM | Comments (0)

November 27, 2006

Promoting the survey

OK, responses to the survey are definitely not as numerous as I wanted. I now get an e-mail each time one's submitted, so I know there have only been about 6 to date. I can also get the summary figures...
Posted by Hughie at 11:12 AM | Comments (0)

November 24, 2006

More invitations ...

Invitation was circulated thought the ::fibreculture:: e-mail list this morning by Geert Lovink. I assume, therefore, that it's also circulated through several other New Media related e-mail lists that Geert is on. I'm sure they'll be findable in due course...
Posted by Hughie at 8:29 AM | Comments (0)

November 23, 2006

Invitation posted to Brisbanemusos.com

The invitatoin has been added to the bulletin board at Brisbanemusos.com. It's unformatted and hard to read, but it's there. I also tried to post it through the press release service at webcds, but that site is giving a 403...
Posted by Hughie at 12:21 PM | Comments (0)

November 22, 2006

Moving along

Several things to report, since I haven't blogged for a coupla days. Plenty of time, since there's guys lopping trees and grinding branches up the road ... The last two days have been spent re-working Heart's With You. The backing...
Posted by Hughie at 8:56 AM | Comments (0)

November 17, 2006

Re-assessing

Yesterday and today are devoted to figuring out the best approach to the next little while. I gave the Lullabye demo to Lucille for her to consider yesterday, and decided to re-do the Heart's With You chorus vocals - that...
Posted by Hughie at 9:56 AM | Comments (0)

Places the questionnaire has been promoted

Apparently, my request to Just Plain Folks got lost - presumably in a spam filter - so I sent it again this morning. Similarly, the one posted to CDBaby has notbeen approved, so Derek asked me to repost it. Still...
Posted by Hughie at 8:51 AM | Comments (0)

November 15, 2006

Big leaps forward

Th questionnaire went live today! It's at http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=4 and will remain there until the end of the year. So far I have posted it to CDBaby's notices and sent it to a heap of associates who expressed interest. Also notified...
Posted by Hughie at 4:23 PM | Comments (0)

November 9, 2006

Not quite where I wanted ...

Re-wrote the line yesterday with the help of Sammy Cahn's dictionary and the Macquarie Thesaurus. After about 5 or 6 suggestions that I bothered to write down and even more that I dismissed without recording, I settled on this "Find...
Posted by Hughie at 10:28 AM | Comments (0)

November 8, 2006

The cold light of day ...

Well, I listened back to the recording of Lullabye last night and it was played as beautifully as I thought - though perhaps not edited as well as I would have liked. Have to revisit that today, and re-write one...
Posted by Hughie at 8:46 AM | Comments (0)

August 10, 2006

Pleasing site stats

Just noticed in the site stats report that "Long for the Day 2006", the song I podcast in July, has been downloaded 23 times this month, but the podcast XML file has only been hit 11 times. Also, "State v...
Posted by Hughie at 4:37 PM | Comments (0)

August 2, 2006

Interesting developments

Site stats for July show something great: podcasting works! At the suggestion of my host, I set up a little podcast of the theme song "I long for the day", and posted it to Podcast.net. The xml document has since...
Posted by Hughie at 11:45 AM | Comments (0)