5 posts tagged “myspace”
Several days ago I set up a MySpace page for the music created by yours truly in collaboration with Lee Chamberlin. However, the songs that we have uploaded are taking their sweet time in appearing on the page, so I am going to let you all in on a little secret while we wait.
There is a wonderful website called PodsafeAudio, where artists share their music under a Creative Commons license. That means that it's free and legal to download, share and even use in radioshows and podcasts, as long as you credit the artist.
And whaddayaknow, Chamberlin/Rasmussen has a page right there on PodsafeAudio, where you can listen to, rate and download three songs by us.
If you're just curious about our latest song, you can listen to it right here, by clicking on the "cover". It's latin and bluesy rock combined with some spoken word action. Enjoy!
A while back, I presented you all with the very first song by yours truly and my musical partner, Lee Chamberlin. The first song was called Heave, and was sort of a silly pirate song with some darkness to it.
We have moved on since then!
I am proud to present you with a new song of ours, Strangers, which is much more traditionally cool. It's a song about classic themes, such as loneliness and feeling lost. Like all of our stuff, this one was composed, written and recorded in just one evening.
But there is more! We have just set up an official artist-page over on MySpace, and we want you to be our friend! If you have a page there, jump right over and add us to your list. Later on, when our music becomes available, you will also be able to download our songs from there, to have and to hold in your own music collection.
Here's a hint: Very very soon, there will be a third song available too, called "Smells Like War". It's a spoken-word-meets-latin-blues kind of a thing. You'll like it. It might even already be there now! So, keep an eye on our MySpace page.
Help us spread the word - and the music!
Okay, so it's been a while and I've been posting a lot here on VOX (at the expense of my other blogs). I figured, I would give it a shot and see how I felt about it. The questions I am trying to answer are:
So, what do I post here? Mainly rants and rambles, I've noticed. Semi-short posts about whatever's on my mind, mixed with a little self-promotion and questions of the day. Compared to my blog on rasmusrasmussen.com, this is definitely lighter content. Over there, I try to post longer pieces with more wit and depth to them. More essayish than ranting. So, in that respect, VOX is a great supplement. Of course, some of the rants and rambles are things, I might've posted on my Danish blog, but that's a completely different audience, and there is that to take into account as well.
What do I get out of posting to VOX? Well, there's the immediate group of readers, that I don't really have to fight to get, namely all the iStock-people. We all know each other already, and seem to have joined VOX as a clan of our own. Having readers is always nice, of course, although VOX is not offering any kind of stats for us to measure how many visitors we actually have. In fact there are several things like that, that VOX is missing. Being used to WordPress and the many many possibilities that has to offer, I find VOX quite limiting in many respects. I realize that they are still only testing and will probably add a lot later, but for now, I feel bound by the site's limitations.
Will I still use it then? For now, yes. I hope that the group of readers here, may eventually become readers on my real blog, and in spite of the limitations, I find that VOX is excellent for stuff like promoting my music and keeping up on other people's lives, which is definitely part of the attraction.
In conclusion, I think VOX is perfect for any iStocker, who'd like to expand on the community features that iStockphoto already provides. And like MySpace, it's good for showing off your stuff, if you're a creative person. I might even suggest that the MySpace people I know, drop that place for this, which I think has a much better structure and more options. But would I recommend a change to this for my blogging friends, and have them give up their own domains on the process? I doubt it.
Do you have to be on MySpace to be an artist? If so, then I'm an artist now. Well, I've been on MySpace for a while, but only as a normal "user". That was, of course, not a very satisfying experience, so I had to go all out and sign up as an artist, so I can feel all important and shit. Oh, and so I can share some of my music with the world!
And the world would be you (unless I am reading my own blogpost, which I might do in a fit of acute narcissism). You can listen and download and comment and be my friend and all sorts of goodness. And if you're a "user" on MySpace, you can add one of my songs to your profile page. Am I not just the most generous artist ever? Well, maybe not then, but I do try.
Pay my artistic self a visit over on MySpace!
Okay, so I've joined the bandwagon that is VOX. I already have several "homes" online, of course, and I have no idea what I'll do with this one. If anything. But here I am nonetheless, checking it out. It looks alright so far, like a MySpace v. 2.0 with some things done a lot better. But where's the RSS integration, I wonder? If I could integrate feeds from my blogs, this could be turned into a personal portal, which would be extremely cool.
