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05-03-2016 09:38 AM |
On the subject of marketing experimental music, which is basically just a way to talk about my own music.
"It’s good to find out which audiences you cross over to so that you can widen the niche of the experimental community that you fill. It’s important to get the word out about your music--you don’t want people who would like your music to never have heard of it. It’s almost like pegging, where a lot of people go for their whole lives not even knowing about it or thinking that they’re not into it, but then it’s sprung out on them (or into them) by surprise and they find themselves liking it a lot more than they expected. One crossover with my audience was with a punk audience, so I would go to a lot of punk shows and tell people about my music. I decided it would be better to perform at a couple of punk shows with my style of music because just informing people about experimental music is like handing out pamphlets about pegging and seeing if people will try it at home. Doing a concert is like going out and personally pegging everyone in the audience, and a lot of people would be more open to it if they just knew what it was like. It's my duty to show them what it's like as a performer."
It's a work in progress, I'll either be presenting tomorrow or Friday so I'll have at least today to polish it up.
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