OK. I've made a decision. Anyone who's spent any time in my company, knows this to be quite a rarity. I'm that annoying person who can't make up their mind about ANYTHING.
Anyway, after YEARS of procrastination and hiding and excuses and learning and not knowing where I'm heading etc etc etc, I am finally going to make a finished product!
I have made the decision to make an EP, but release it as a DVD, so it will include:
a number of tracks (to be decided)
A video for each track
Perhaps a few extra little videos
possibly.... a max/msp stand-alone application
OTHER STUFF
The idea of doing it as a DVD is to try and find a way to link the silly and random videos I've been making with the silly and random music I've been making. The finished product I will aim to sell is going to be, let's face it, a bit weird. But I really want to make a go of this project, and experiment with the way I approach making music/videos/art/whatever it is. I've started planning deadlines, allotting times for different processes, brainstorming, and generally trying to break this project down into manageable chunks (basically trying to remember everything that Andy Hunt taught me at York!).
One of the questions that I need to work out, and I would be very interested to hear people's opinions on, is:
"How much content do I give out (put on the internet for free) during this process?"
Do I keep it all hidden until I release it?
Do I make stuff available as I create it?
Do I try and stick extra stuff online aside the project?
Do I give teasers?
Do I document the process?
I would be very interested, and grateful, if anyone had any advice/opinions/thoughts about this aspect of creating stuff in 2010. I personally feel that the way that both industry and culture have changed in the last few years is a tremendous opportunity to reconsider how we approach music/art/performance/whatever. Things have changed. Music is ubiquitous. And it is free.
I see this as a great opportunity to rethink what I can offer as a musician.
I'm tired now, but going to bed with a sense of purpose, with ideas bubbling up, and a determination to harness and manage these ideas, and actually bloody finish something!
Ed
