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My contribution to this week’s Nonalignment Pact music blog is an article about sending music for review and the amount of music you should send. Excerpt is below; article is here:
Notes From a Demo Review Session: The Principle of Diminishing Returns
When you as an artist receive explicit instructions to send one song for consideration, your very best song, you should generally follow the instructions. If your song is amazing and the listener or listeners want to hear more, you will be asked to send more songs. You may think that you are sending a message about your talent as a profilic and profound songwriter by sending five different and awesome songs from your catalog or even an entire zip of everything you have written. But actually you are sending a message about how you feel about your own music: indecisive and insecure. You don’t feel good about any of the songs to let them shine on their own, so you send more.
Of course, this may not be actually be what you feel. Perhaps you just want to maximize the opportunity for exposure, or you really feel that all of your songs are amazing. However, you may nevertheless inadvertently send this message by failing to follow the instructions.
"With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net. The site pulls search results from other music sites — including Skreemr, MP3Codes, and 4Shared Music, sites which in turn index hundreds of thousands of sites, blogs and artist pages."
"On that measure, Shazam places third — and not by a nose. Midomi and MusicID were both noticeably faster than Shazam on every search I tried, in noisy and peaceful surroundings. It took Shazam 16 seconds to identify Steve Earle’s “Sparkle and Shine,” for instance, which was four seconds slower than MusicID and eight seconds slower than Midomi."
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