Why do you make music? Write books? Make films? You might know, you might not. Either way, you do it for a specific reason. Maybe it’s to explore. Maybe it’s to affect other people. Maybe it’s to inject a little fun and excitement into your life. That reason gives your creative work context. So does...
Building Context for Your Creative Work
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If you’re a recording artist or author, what do you see as the purpose of your website? To educate? To inform? To advertise? Think again. While your site might do those things well, they alone are not enough. Your site must be a multi-dimensional representation of who you are as an artist. If it...
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album, art, artist, artist communities, artistic health care, arts education, arts funding, comics, community theater, creative, creative process, creative projects, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture wars, dance, design, fashion, festival, film, folk art, food, funding, funding path, games, indie artist, indie artists, indie band, indie filmmaker, kickstarter, literature, local arts agencies, media arts, museums, music, national endowment for the arts, NEA, neum, opera, paths, photography, publishing, record, technology, theater, traditional art, united states, visual arts, yancey stricklerHave an album you’re ready to record and release? A film you want to produce and screen at festivals? How are you going to pay for it? Talking Points Memo (TPM) reported this week that Kickstarter, the popular crowdsourcing platform, will likely distribute more funds to creators this year than the National Endowment for the...
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application software, artist, computing, digital audio, fail to pay, freeware, launch, media technology, music, music download services, music industry, music streaming, napster, online music stores, pandora, rhapsody, royalties, royalty, royalty rates, spotify, stream, streaming media, streaming service, virtual communities, web 2.0All right, artists — have you bought your first sandwich yet with your Spotify royalties? We first examined streaming royalties in August, and are taking a fresh look at them now. Until the successful U.S. launch of Spotify last summer (before which the popular streaming service was Europe-only), Wampus recordings had generated an average...
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amazon, artist, artistic identity, choice, digital audio, digital media, facebook, freeware, identity, indie artist, indie artists, media technology, mistrust, mixtape, multimedia, music, music distribution, music sharing, music streaming, playlists, recording artist, spotify, stream, streaming music, tipsDepending on whom you ask, the music-streaming service Spotify is either the savviest music-sharing platform ever or the canniest artist-fleecing apparatus ever. Either way, it just might be the future of music distribution. As an indie artist in a Spotify world, you have a choice. You can either mistrust Spotify or you can make it...