Re: [microsound] confusion

[craquemattic <craque@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've already added quite a few and listened to a couple, and accepted  
quite a few adds from my microsound brethren.

It's interesting that some members of this list are highly aggravated  
by myspace, and the majority are not.

Personally I don't have time to really participate in forums and  
blogs and the like, so i guess i'm mostly a lurker... but just  
because they're there doesn't mean you have to use them. Use it for  
what is useful.

I joined myspace before it became such a hot item, primarily because  
i have no other distribution source for my music than online sources,  
and I immediately saw it as a perfect replacement for my mp3.com  
functionality: reach any audience i possibly can with my weird ass  
musicmaking, essentially for free. Get the sounds out there.

So i never really participated in any 'social' aspects of mp3.com  
(you had the potential to do a LOT of cross-promotion and marketing  
on that site, if you really put some elbow grease into it), and don't  
really do so on myspace either, except for silly exchanges with  
friends and announcements for my weekly DJ gig. It's a fun way to  
discover new things, though.

The way I look at it, the more people i can possibly reach with my  
music, the better, so why not just let it ride and have some music up  
on myspace for anybody to find? i certainly don't *count* on it as a  
distribution or marketing resource, but i know for a fact that random  
people from all over the world got turned onto my stuff just because  
they happened across it on myspace. I don't get nearly the same kind  
of immediate and personal response from people visiting craque.net,  
but i also don't position it as 'advertising' my music.

For anyone who is really interested, the current print issue of Wired  
has a lot of interesting insight on myspace in particular, and its  
relation to News Corp.

matt

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