Good show

I had my release party for Transitions today. It went pretty well! Around a dozen folks attended in VRChat, and another half-dozen tuned in to the stream. Everyone who came enjoyed it and had nice things to say.

I hope that over time I can get more attendance to things, but the time of day for this particular show wasn’t great, as a lot of people wanted to come but had other obligations (such as, you know, sleep). The time I chose was based on trying to split the difference between a lot of peoples' needs. But this is why I also record my shows for posting on YouTube.

This show was also really big and took a lot of work to put on and I am so freaking tired. What I’d like to do is to just start doing more frequent, smaller shows, instead of trying to do these big all-out things on a monthly basis. I should experiment with different times on day on both Saturday and Sunday (which is consistently the least-bad day for everyone) and see if I can get regular attendance going. These shows could just be for funs instead of having to be a big rigmarole.

Right now I’m super tired and I having finished the album I can at least take a break from music production for a while.

I’m also a bit disappointed with the world of indie music and the marketing thereof. I have a whole rant brewing about the asinine way that music marketing works, but tl;dr1: people only care about stuff that is coming out soon, nobody cares about stuff that’s already out. I hope I’m wrong about this. At least Transitions seems to have a bit more legs than my previous releases. (But my previous releases still exist! They’re still totally viable albums that you can buy and/or listen to!)

Anyway, I’ve submitted Transitions to a few different promo things but I’m not expecting a lot because they only care about stuff that’s upcoming or Brand New, and having been out for a few days it’s no longer Brand New. Which is just… dumb.

Anyway here’s a TODO list of stuff I need to do in the immediate future:

  • Recut a Trans Academy video for an upcoming thing
  • Finally finish rebuilding my gosh-darn music website
  • Tidy up my office and studio desk, and prepare for whatever hardware swapping I end up doing
  • House cleaning in general
  • Actually play some of these video games I bought ages ago and was waiting to finish my album before getting engrossed in (fun? what’s that?)
  • Finally get around to listing my pottery on my Etsy page, which is probably a bit too late because the holiday shopping season is already in full swing and I should have done this months ago, ugh

and externally-driven events that are happening soon:

  • More fireplace/chimney maintenance
  • Social security disability screening
  • Choir administrative stuff, especially interviewing for our next artistic director
  • Some CT scans related to my ongoing vertigo issues

I also keep on playing with the idea of doing some Twitch streaming of the games I grew up with. That might be a fun way to occupy some time and being “productive” during downtime between actual productivity events. I dunno.