As I talked about previously, there are many different services for getting your music online with the major streaming providers. Here’s my thoughts on a few that I’ve worked with, and a couple that are on my radar and I plan on trying out in the future.
Of course, the best place to sell your music is on places like Mirlo and Bandcamp, where you actually get paid well for things and your buyers are able to retain access to your music in exchange, but the unfortunate reality of music in the current era is that most listeners are going to the streamers to listen to stuff, so if you want your stuff to be listened to, this is where you have to put it.
I’ve been looking into physical releases again lately. After my recent vinyl releases, my various polls have found that people are much more interested in buying things on CD than vinyl, because they’re a much easier means of doing a physical collection.
The manufacturing space used to be a lot bigger, but these days there’s not a whole lot of options. For most musicians, there are two paths to go down: on-demand and short-run.
After my previous review of elasticStage, a customer service representative reached out to me and told me that they’d improved their cutting process to reduce the surface noise, and asked if I’d be interested in receiving (at no charge) a recut of the two records. I agreed to this, and the replacement records arrived today.
On both of my albums, I am extremely pleased to report that the audio quality has improved in every possible way! The surface noise is essentially gone, and everything sounds perfectly clean. Some of the subtler sounds that had been lost behind the surface noise before are now super apparent, too.
The difference is much more profound on Transitions than on Refactor, but both albums have definitely improved as a result of their process change.
The actual manufacturing and delivery time was also greatly reduced from the last time, which tells me that they’ve probably cleared a backlog in their manufacturing.
I will be performing three 15-minute live sets at Trans Academy as part of the annual Trans Pride VR festivities! Please join TRANS.7885 to attend! (And come to Trans Pride VR too! It’ll be fun.)
I will also try to stream my sets at the usual place but there are no guarantees.
I will be performing three 15-minute live sets at Trans Academy as part of the annual Trans Pride VR festivities! Please join TRANS.7885 to attend! (And come to Trans Pride VR too! It’ll be fun.)
I will also try to stream my sets at the usual place but there are no guarantees.
I will be performing three 15-minute live sets at Trans Academy as part of the annual Trans Pride VR festivities! Please join TRANS.7885 to attend! (And come to Trans Pride VR too! It’ll be fun.)
I will also try to stream my sets at the usual place but there are no guarantees.
I will be performing a live set with Refraction VR to help kick off Pride month! I hope to see y'all there! For those who can’t make it in VR, I will also be streaming it on my Owncast instance UPDATE: on twitch.
This show is 18+ and will require VRChat age verification.
I will be performing a half-hour live set at Trans Academy, kicking off the new TA Underground concert series. Join VRChat group TRANS.7885 for your access to the show, or watch it live on Twitch.
Furality is an annual virtual furry conference that takes place entirely in VRChat. I have a dealer’s den booth this year, booth 816 (second level of the 2D Art + Miscellaneous) section, and I’m super excited!
Last night Furality opened up a dealer’s den preview so that we could check that our booths are set up correctly, and as a treat we got to see a decent chunk of the world and the overall style of the show, and I gotta say, it’s incredible. The Furality team have knocked it out of the park this year, and have really outdone themselves. From what I’ve seen this isn’t just going to be an incredible con, it’s going to be an amazing VRChat experience, and I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of it.
If you’re at all in VRChat (even if you aren’t at all interested in furry stuff), or heck, even if you’ve been thinking of trying VRChat out, I highly recommend coming to Furality Somna so that you can experience the joy. Also, you don’t need a VR setup to use VRChat! it just helps with the immersion (although just a warning, if you play it on desktop or cellphone you’ll probably end up really wanting to get a headset anyway).
Also, I plan on doing various impromptu shows at various places throughout the con, and if you see me wandering around, feel free to come up and say “hi!”
I will be debuting a brand-new composition, “Slow Dance,” at the Trans Academy Prom. Join group TRANS.7885 to attend in person, or watch the show on Twitch.
Back in April I learned about elasticStage, an on-demand vinyl production company that makes it easy for musicians to get their music on vinyl without any up-front costs. I ended up setting up Transitions and Refactor for manufacturing, and ordered some test copies.
My lead time at the time was around 6 weeks, and I was told the records would ship on May 14. They ended up shipping a couple days later than expected, but I still ended up receiving them today, which isn’t too much further after the original estimate.
Anyway, here’s my review of how the product turned out.
UPDATE: elasticStage have responded to my review by sending me updated copies. Definitely check out what’s new!
It’s that time again! Join TRANS.7885 for access, or watch on the Twitch stream Whoops, there was no Twitch stream this time, sorry to anyone who was expecting to watch me that way.
