Should I Give My Music Away?
So, I’ve read a couple of interesting posts discussing the idea of musicians giving their music away for free. Of course, in today’s world, the idea of giving one’s music away for free has been gaining popularity. I mean, honestly, if someone doesn’t want to pay for your music, they don’t have to. And is that always a bad thing? One study in particular has shown that people who are downloading music illegally are ten times more likely to buy music than those people who do not download illegally.
Nine Inch Nails
And of course we have all seen artists such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails giving music away for free. I just downloaded the new How To Destroy Angels EP from Trent and company last week. Here it is easy to point to the fact that these groups are wildly famous already. They are going to continue making millions off of their merchandise and live shows and previous albums in stores. But what about the indie artists like us? What about those of us slaving away in our home studios or giving our money to pro studios – investing our time and our money to put out songs and albums, should we be giving our music away? Don’t we have to eat?
What are the benefits of giving our music away for free versus actually getting paid for our hard work? These are questions that I’ve been asking myself, and in fact Ryan and I have talked about how to deal with this issue when we get The Compound album done.
Joe Gilder wrote a nice post at his AWESOME blog The Home Studio Corner discussing the question of whether or not to give your music away for free and he made a great comment:
“The record, the album, has shifted from being the product to being the marketing tool. The product itself is now YOU, the artist.”
And I tend to agree with this.
Andre Calihanna, writing for Discmakers’ Echoes blog wrote about this issue and discussed a couple of books and a blog from both sides of the argument. In discussing Bobby Owsinski’s Music 3.0, Making Music in the Internet Age, Andre drew attention to several strong ideas presented by the author. Music is its own marketing tool. This relates back to what Joe said. And think about it, as an indie artist, do you have millions to spend on advertising? Where is your television or radio commercial? Your billboard? Maybe there is something to be said for the trade between giving your music away for free and gaining the best possible advertising tool for free – the music.
How To Destroy Angels
Radiohead's 'In Rainbows'
On the other hand, when discussing Randall D. Wixen’s book The Plain and Simple Guide to Music Publishing, Andre mentioned one of the most horrible things a struggling musician can hear when discussing getting paid: “It’ll be good exposure.” That is THE WORST. I’ve also heard the argument that once an artist starts playing “good exposure” gigs, they’ll always be playing “good exposure” gigs. And exposure for what, getting more gigs that don’t pay? I spent five years playing in and around Austin. And in Austin you’re all going to get paid with “good exposure.” Once one band agrees to it at one club, why is any club going to pay any band for any gig? They’re not. “Oh, you won’t play for fuck all? Then someone else will.” So yes, I agree that it is gift wrapped horseshit when a club owner tells you to think about the great exposure when you ask him or her how much they are going to pay you for helping to entice paying customers into their club.
So yeah, I say get paid for your gigs – fight for the door and your cut of the bar, but what about giving away your stuff online? Well, you may have noticed my songs for free over to the right. That’s not a teaser thing over there. I’m not giving away a couple of songs and then selling the full albums (which I promise there will be at some point in the future). I plan on giving ALL my music away for free. And Ryan and I agreed to that with The Compound material as well.
Why?
Well, here the good exposure thing sort of makes sense. EGOIST is a solo project that will never (in the near future, at least) hit a stage anywhere. The Compound is two guys in two different countries, so we’re definitely not gigging anytime soon. How do we get our music out there? Why would anyone come to the site of some unknown artist and take a risk on some unknown music? They wouldn’t. They are not going to come to our site and pay us money when they have no idea who we are or how good we are. On the other hand, I’ve downloaded several albums by bands that have given them away for free and I tend to follow their blogs and their Twitter and spread the word. I want our music to be heard and I know from trying to sell records with The Subtle Creeps, people just don’t like coughing up dough for some unknown band.
I have other motivations as well. I hate the whole idea of capitalism and the population of brainwashed consumer zombies it’s been breeding for generations. So I like anything that throws a wrench into that twisted machine. And if “file sharing” and the home recording movement have done anything, it’s been to redistribute the wealth and accessibility for the musician and music fan alike. It’s an old cliché at this point to say that the music industry is changing, but it’s true. I’ve listened to albums from artists that not only would I not have heard of if not for the current state of the music industry, but that probably wouldn’t even be able to exist. And with “music pirates” being on the cutting edge of new unknown artists and also being ten times more likely to buy music, that’s good news for us unknowns, especially if we are getting our music into the hands of those people who want to discover new music, but who may be willing to do so without paying for it. I’ve discovered lots of new unknown bands who release their music for free directly on to torrent sites.
And that brings me back to the idea of music no longer being the product, but being the best marketing tool in the hands of the indie musician. Like Joe was saying, the music is no longer the product, WE are. Of course, this is going to sound very capitalist coming from a guy who just said he wants to tear that system down, but if we can build a successful brand, then utilize the marketing potential of our music to bring people back to that brand, then we still have the potential to make money. And in the end, don’t we want to quit our day jobs and just make music? We are working hard and creating something for people to enjoy and we do deserve something in return.
Land Lovers
I mentioned before that live performance is not on the immediate horizon for me (I will get back on to a stage at some point, though. No bigger rush than putting on a great live performance). My goal is to build an online following – hence this blog. I want to give my music away for free and to build a following that will, hopefully, keep people coming back. Of course, I’m also interested in selling music for television and film, but that’s different. They would be buying my product for use in their product. But for people out there who just want to enjoy the music that I am creating both to express myself and to be enjoyed by others, it will always be free.
As I was saying, though, the goal is to build a following, to get people coming back to the site. If they want to donate money, that option will become available (and a percentage of that will go to charity, and those charities will be named and their links made available for direct donation – if someone has a dollar to give, then give it to the charity now and hit me up later or never or whatever). Also, I plan on selling merchandise like t-shirts and posters and albums with handmade art, etc., etc…. Calihanna mentioned Owsinski’s idea of selling collectors’ versions, box sets and signed editions and such. That’s a neat idea for fans who are into that. But why would they care about me in the first place? Why would there be fans willing to give me money for signed collectors’ editions? Because I’ve built an audience using my music. (Or at least that’s the plan I’m attempting to set in motion.) By giving your music away for free, you ensure, as an unknown artist, that it will reach a much wider audience right off the bat than if you try to sell it right away.
In fact, if I were able to build a large enough audience here, I could start advertising. So that would be another way music was helping me earn money indirectly by building traffic around my brand. And it’d be great to use the site to advertise the type of ethical companies that I support – yet another way to build momentum for a different kind of society. One free from corporate rule.
Taphead's '800 Memories Per Second'
In Calihanna’s post he mentions some ideas discussed in blog posts by Dexter Bryant, Jr., and I’ve mentioned it above as well. Free music is free advertising. And as Bryant puts it, giving your music away for free eliminates the risk and lowers the barriers to entry that a consumer or a new potential fan would face.
Taphead, great artist with a great album: 800 Memories Per Second. Why do I know about Taphead? Because they gave their album away with the choice to get it for free, here. Now look, I’m telling you about them. I wouldn’t have bought the album since I’d never heard of the band, but I didn’t have to, so there was no risk.
The Land Lovers are another great band with a couple of great albums. I only know they’re great and am able to spread the word because I was able to download there albums for free from here. I hadn’t heard their stuff before, but The Sweet Oblivion blog mentioned that they were giving there albums away for free, so I snagged ‘em, risk free.
Just listened to an EP by the band Beta Wolf yesterday that I downloaded for free from their site www.BetaWolfMusic.com. I hadn’t heard of them the day before and now here I am telling you about them.
Beta Wolf
There are definitely more that I could mention. In fact, that’s a good idea. From time to time I’ll come back to the blog with some great free music that I’ve discovered. Help spread the word.
Anyway, I started this out with it in mind to make a quick blog post throwing my two cents into the “Free Music” discussion. Now I’m pushing 2,000 words. Let me know what you all think. This is definitely a subject worth discussing and definitely one that has two sides to the argument, both with their strong points. Go check out Joe’s post at The Home Studio Corner and then Andre’s at Echoes and see what they have to say. Then let me know how you feel about it.
See you in the comments…
Photo Sources:
- Nine Inches Nails
- Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’
- How To Destroy Angels
- Land Lovers
- Taphead’s ’800 Memories Per Second’
- Beta Wolf
New Song – The World Came Crashing Down
Well it’s been months since my last post. Still working into this whole blogging thing. I’ve recently started working on my MBA, so my schedule has been pretty full lately. I’ve also been failing pretty hard at the whole 5am work schedule for music. I took a vacation this week, though, so I plan on making up for lost time. Especially for The Compound. We have a lot of work to do.
So, since it’s been forever, I’ve posted a new song for you all. Download it for FREE from the Box widget on the right. The new EGOIST song is called ‘The World Came Crashing Down’. I’m especially proud of it because I wrote, recorded, and mixed the entire song, from start to finish, completely from scratch, A to Z, in just over 24 hours. Need to work on that kind of production speed all the time. I’d be catching up to Omar Rodriguez-Lopez without breaking a sweat.
I recorded the song in Pro Tools LE on my failing Dell laptop. I used the awesome Steven Slate Drum plug-in that I purchased from audioMIDI.com during one of their great ‘No-Brainer’ deals. (I’m going to be getting the IK T-RackS 3 Classic EQ & Metering plug-ins today actually, so that’s pretty cool). I used Vacuum and Structure FREE for the other instrumentation. All the great Structure FREE patches I used came from one of my very favorite and, in my opinion, essential blogs – especially for those of us recording at home – the Air Users Blog. I’m sure many of you know it, but, if you don’t, go there now. They have HUNDREDS of patches and samples available for download as well as great tutorial videos and all kinds of other information and goodies. All for FREE (quick edit, they’ve changed it so that there’s a one time 5 pound fee. WORTH IT – GO NOW)! In fact, it was Russ’s great videos on Vacuum that inspired me to start playing around with the plug-in more. Especially for using it for drum sounds.
Quick side note, if you haven’t already, head over to The Voracious Vegan. Tasha has just completed her week long Souljourn for World Hunger to raise awareness and bring attention to the 1 in 6 human beings living in hunger on our planet. She’s gathered tons of research and information, posted highly informative videos, and conducted great interviews with experts related to the subject. You can also read it at The Conducive Chronicle. You should also check out Kenda Swartz Pepper’s 21-Day Souljourn which inspired Tasha.
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Now, go download ‘The World Came Crashing Down’ by EGOIST (that’s me) and enjoy. Let me know what you think. I’m really trying to work on my production skills – EQ’ing and mixing, finding the right tones and sounds – so any of you production and home recording people reading, feel free to share your thoughts and opinions, good and bad, thumbs up or thumbs down. I’m just learning, so any comments, constructive criticisms, or advice is completely welcome. These songs are for everyone to enjoy, but also offer case studies to learn, both for me and for any readers out there interested in hearing what to do and what not to do. So thanks in advance for any discussions we get going in the comments.
International Women’s Day
I would like to wish everyone a happy International Women’s Day! My wonderfully brilliant wife Tasha who runs the blog The Voracious Vegan is a passionate feminist. While I have always wanted equality and human rights for everyone and was, of course, aware of the imbalance that exists in the world, Tasha helped open my eyes to the far reaching grip that sexism holds on our society.
We became vegans together at the same moment, and because of her, I have also come to know really what it means to be a feminist – part of which, as a male, is knowing that I can never truly understand what it means to be the victim of the all saturating, all encompassing sexism that pervades nearly every part of every society.
In honor of International Women’s Day, Tasha put together the following video featuring music by EGOIST that takes a look at some answers to the question, “Why Feminism?” She has also had the opportunity to provide a guest post on the award winning raw food blog Choosing Raw for International Women’s Day discussing the link between Feminism and Veganism.
You can see Tasha’s guest post HERE as well her own post on The Voracious Vegan discussing International Women’s Day HERE. And finally, click below to watch the video.
Why Feminism?
The Compound
As I’ve mentioned, when I started this blog its main purpose was to act as a hub for my various musical projects. My writing falls into a small variety of categories and I think the best way to express those ideas is to separate them and group them as different projects.
Cody's Workspace
I occasionally write acoustic oriented folksy type songs. You’ll probably see those pop up as solo work. The EGOIST is my industrial project. I used to play in a hard rock band. Now I’m doing it all by myself. The hard rock background combined with the electronic stuff working alone in Pro Tools has inspired sort of became the EGOIST. Plus I like the idea of being in a band, even if I’m the only guy in it. You get to sort of build up a vehicle that’s more than just yourself to present to the world. Of course I’ve been talking about my ‘Soundtrack’ project which is just the label I’ve given to the catalog that I’m working on building up for eventual submission with the hope of getting them placed or picked up by music libraries. Many of those, I’m sure, will find their way onto the albums of other projects I’m working on in some form another depending on what they sound like.
And then there’s the Compound. The Compound is collaboration between me and one of my very best friends Ryan Conner. Ryan and I have been friends for almost 22 years. We met when we were seven. I still remember the exact day, actually, and the first time we hung out. His mom made us sandwiches and we played Pole Position on the Atari at his house. There were actually three of us, then, who became completely inseparable – me, Ryan, and our other friend Chase Piedfort. We had a unique and interesting experience growing up which probably explains why certain things have ended up as they have.
Our parents all had jobs working for Saudi Aramco, the largest oil company on the planet. Because of this, we grew up in an Aramco compound located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The compound is a fully functioning little city complete with schools, restaurants, a bowling alley, large community swimming pools, a state of the art horse stables, a movie theater, and many of the other things that make a town a town. While we did have the unique experience of living in Saudi Arabia, it was made even more so due to the fact that it was on the Aramco compound – entering the compound was sort of like entering a country within a country. It’s been said that the Aramco compound is more like 1950s America than 1950s America. And it’s true.
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: Sunset in the Jebels
There’s something about it that makes looking around at the houses and the baseball and soccer fields and the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts walking around that makes you feel like you are looking at an old black and white photograph you found in the attic in a trunk. It’s weird and wonderful, maddening in certain ways (especially to people who have been working and living there for 30 years) and it’s where I grew up. It’s my home town more so than any other place I’ve lived and I think Ryan and Chase feel the same about that.
An interesting policy that Aramco maintains is that the schools only go up to the 9th grade. After this, students typically go to boarding school. My father happened to retire the same year that I graduated from 9th grade, so we moved back to small town Louisiana (culture shock!) while Chase and Ryan went to boarding schools in different parts of the US, returning to Saudi during breaks.
Now, all three of us started playing guitar at roughly the same time, but it wasn’t until they were returning students that Ryan and Chase, along with another friend, Dave, started the Spinal Tap-esque garage metal band SpineChrist. Dave learned to play the drums, Chase switched from guitar to bass, they learned how to use a 4-track and we were all blessed with songs such as ‘Stillborn’ and ‘In the Water (Like I Deserve to Be)’.
After high school, Chase eventually moved in with my family in Louisiana to go to college with me there. I’d met fellow guitarist Josh McCready in high school and the two of us had started writing songs together. We’d even played a couple of gigs here and there with various drummers and bassists. But it wasn’t until Chase moved to the Deep South with us that we really fell into the groove and became the Subtle Creeps. We eventually wound up in San Marcos, Texas – just between Austin and San Antonio – where we stayed for a good five or six years, playing in and around San Marcos and Austin.
Bahrain Fort and Al Moyyad Tower
During that time, another Aramco brat Tasha Burge was invited along to one of our shows. Tasha turned out to be my soul mate and within a couple of years we were engaged and then married. She had always planned on moving back to the Middle East after university, so, in 2007, that’s what we did – us and our three dogs. Tasha and I found jobs in Bahrain which is a tiny island Kingdom just over a causeway from Saudi. Within a couple of years, I was able to get a job in Dammam, Saudi Arabia and here we are, back in the Kingdom (us and our four dogs…and two cats…and one horse…).
Dhahran: Cody in the Jebels
A bit less than a year before Tasha and I decided to move back to the desert, Ryan had decided to give teaching English in Japan a try. There’s something about growing up as an expat that makes you feel the need to continue being an expat. You just get the bug, I suppose. After living and working in Japan for a couple of years and trying to get a couple of bands going, Ryan eventually found his way to Vietnam where he is now.
Vietnam: Ryan Celebrating Tet '08
Both of us were living in situations where we couldn’t really find anyone to play with and we’d been complaining for years that while he and Chase had gotten to play in a band, and Chase and I had gotten to play together in a band, Ryan and I had never had the opportunity to play together in a band.
Thus the Compound.
Vietnam: Bui Vien Street
What better way for a couple of lifelong expats to play together in a band than from two different countries. We realized about a year ago that nothing was stopping us from being in a band. Sure, we can’t really book gigs, but nowadays there are other ways of writing and producing music and getting out to the general public without having to play live or even get a stack of CDs printed up.
We started, about a year ago, the process of writing an album. Generally, Ryan sends me guitar riffs and ideas and I play with the arrangements and then work up a melody and lyrics. I’ve also been working on the drum programming and have supplied some additional synth parts as well as the occasional second guitar part or solo.
While I won’t go into the album itself – I’m saving that for another blog post – I will tell you that what we have ended up doing is huge project. As I’ve said, we started about a year ago and it’s taken a lot longer than we had at first anticipated. We were hoping to give the completed album out as Christmas presents. Real life has the ability to interrupt, delay, and otherwise make a mockery of any perfect plan.
Ryan's Workspace
But as I mentioned, that’s for another blog post. The project is a blast. We’re learning a lot – it’s as much a training exercise as anything else – and we are getting to do what we’ve been talking about for over a decade – be in a band with each other. It’s definitely a musical collaboration that has no end in sight; in fact, I think Ryan is sitting on an entire album’s worth of music that he won’t let me hear. He’s consistently vague and mysterious about this, though, providing me with more incentive to hurry up and move the first album along.
I’ll keep you all up-to-date on this project as it moves along. Before the album is finished, we’ll definitely start getting a few songs up for your downloading pleasure from time to time. We look forward to sharing them with you and we can’t wait to deliver our debut album – soon, we hope…soon…
Morning Time
So it’s Day 5 of the new schedule I had set for myself and other than oversleeping on Sunday, it was a success. I woke up at 5am four out of five days and, in that time, wrote three new songs. Of course, the songs aren’t done at all, but they are written. Now I just have to finalize the arrangements and put in some additional parts. They’ll be all finished this weekend (hopefully).
I did manage, however, to finalize a short ambient piece that I had started a couple of weeks ago. This morning I went in and fixed the song’s piano part (thank you quantize) and that was that. It’s a simple little piece, but I’m proud of it. I’ve spent years of my life writing hard rock songs and the occasional acoustic oriented song. So it’s been a blast experimenting with the electronic ambient stuff. I’m totally in love with it.
I love immersing myself in the subtle layers and dreamlike sounds. It’s other worldly. It allows for a sort of calming indulgence on my part that was hard to express when standing in a practically un-air conditioned room or a totally un-air conditioned garage during a Texas summer with three other guys, pounding out power chords from a Marshall half stack, and sweating like hell (not saying that was bad I LOVE IT – it just doesn’t easily lend itself to ambient song writing, in my opinion). Waking up at 5am and sitting down to write when it’s still dark outside and the house is quiet, a thin haze of sleep still draped over my brain, the lights dimmed – that’s just perfect.
That said two of the songs I ended up writing were still pretty riff driven. I am, though, interested to see how they end up considering the fun I’m having experimenting with some of the ambient stuff I’ve been playing with.
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Have a listen to the song I finished up today – it’s posted over on the right for you to download if you’re interested (IT’S FREE) – and let me know what you think.
If you have any tips or constructive criticism, lay it on me. And don’t be shy about putting your thoughts – good or bad – right down there in the comments section, maybe other people can listen to what I’ve done and compare it to any feedback you might have and they can learn something as well.
Time Management Blues
So, it seems my biggest enemy in getting anything done is my complete lack of any time management skills. So, in an effort to curb that fault, I’m writing this here so that I can be accountable for this ridiculous schedule I’m planning.
I work from 8am to 5pm, and I usually leave the house by 7:30am and get home from 5:30 to 6pm. After work, when I get home, I’m usually sluggish and tired. And by the time I slip into something a bit more…comfortable, and then eat, it’s like 7 or 8. My day is effectively shot.
Additionally, I’ve noticed that I seem pretty productive creatively early in the morning. My body is trained to wake up at 6am, with the help of an alarm (and the bathroom and eating needs of four dogs and two cats). On the weekends, I’m usually awake by 7 or 8am without an alarm (but still with the aid of the herd of four-legged children). My wife stays in bed and I trudge into the living room and sit down to Pro Tools and work. I’ve turned out a good amount of work when I do this, usually getting about four hours before any other activities intercede. The problem with this is my lack of discipline. When I do this, it’s great, but how often I do it sucks.
Okay, keeping all of that nonsense in mind, I was doing a lot of research and watching videos from Taxi.com (hey, any Taxi members out there, I’m thinking of joining, any advice or opinions about the site and community?). I was specifically watching (and still am, actually) an interview with Matt Hirt about how to make a living working with film and TV placements. One of the biggest things I am getting from the interview is to BUILD UP YOUR CATALOG!!! The only way for me to build up my catalog to anything that I can hope will eventually start earning me any amount of income is to make a schedule and STICK TO IT.
So, in an effort to do that, as I mentioned, I’m making this post just to say it out loud. I can tell myself, “I have to stick to the schedule; I said I would, and it’s carved in cyberspace.” My plan is to start dragging my ass out of bed at 5am every morning during the week and trying to get an hour to two hours of work done before I go to work. I figure that I can produce a decent song every two days. That would give me three or four songs a week. Let’s say my goal is three with the additional time being spent polishing up the keepers for submission.
Now, we also have to keep in mind that I am working on a huge project with Ryan for the Compound’s epic debut, as well as an EP for my EGOIST project. Most, if not all, of the EGOIST songs will probably end up getting submitted anyway. And songs that are produced in an effort to build up my catalog for submission may end up finding their way into the EGOIST catalog. So my EGOIST project and what is effectively my “Soundtrack” project overlap somewhat. Some of my mornings will go into working on the Compound album and then most of my work time on the weekends will be dedicated to just that. Also, on days when I am up to working in the evenings, I’ll try to focus largely on the Compound material.
Okay, so there it is. 5am, Saturday through Wednesday (the work week in Saudi Arabia) and then up at around 8am on Thursday. I’ll give myself Friday to sleep in. I’ll aim for three songs a week towards my submission catalog to begin with and then go from there as my speed increases.
The weekend starts tomorrow, so over the next couple of days, expect an update on the EGOIST EP and probably something on the Compound. I’d love to have the EGOIST EP up for download by next week, but we’ll see – depends on the progress of the lyrics and resulting vocals. And hopefully, with the next couple of weeks we can start posting some Compound songs ahead of the full album release.
At the end of next week – next Wednesday, I suppose – we’ll talk about my first week of my new work schedule.
ROCK…
Behind Schedule
Alright. It was my plan to have had a free 3 song EP from my EGOIST project up for everyone to download in January. You may notice that we’re about a week into February and my blog is still sans EP. Sorry.
However, it is coming along. I’m starting to get in a more regular routine as far as music goes. The Compound project is picking up steam again. The Compound is project that I am working on with my friend Ryan. I live in Saudi Arabia and he lives in Vietnam. He’s been writing music and sending it to me where I’ve been working on the arrangements and adding vocals and additional parts here and there.
The songwriting phase is finished and we’ve actually started on the final tracks. Anyway, as that progresses along more, I’ll start filling you in. I’ll eventually start making some of the songs available through here.
I’m also starting a sketchbook type project titled ‘Soundtrack’. My idea with that is to work on putting together quick little sketches of songs along the lines of something one might find on a soundtrack. I want to work towards developing music for film and television. So the idea behind this is that it will help me practice and develop my skills composing to that end as well as to help me further develop my programming and production skills. Also, it will help me develop my recording routine.
Wow, so this is a scatterbrained post. I wanted to get on here today, though, and write something. I started this blog with the idea of making it just a website and sort of hub for the various musical projects I have going and that it would remain fairly static as far as its content other than adding music and maybe the occasional video. But over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking that I would actually use it as a blog and try to make – at least – weekly posts. I used to play in a band and was able to present my music regularly live. I’m not in a band anymore, but I still have much that I want to create and give musically.
So with that in mind, here I am writing what I hope to be the first of many, many blog posts, documenting my work habits, books I’m reading related to recording or promotion or music in general, my research and work towards licensing my music, and anything else I decide to put up here. I plan on making a concerted effort to develop my writing, programming, and production skills with goal of one day letting music be my full time job. Part of that effort will include documenting it all here.
This post is, as I mentioned, scatterbrained and stream of consciousness. As this plan moves forward, I’m sure something more concrete and, hopefully, to some extent, at least, interesting. I’ll take the time in the future to introduce myself more properly and discuss each one of my projects in more detail.
Until then, thanks for stopping by…
Under Construction
I’m currently in the process of putting this site together. Captive Records is the home for my various music projects and collaborations as well as a starting point for the musical projects of friends.
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