As previously mentioned, Coulton & Pavlina have got me thinking that I should go back through the Joel Corriveau archive and post up my compositions to JoelCorriveau.com. How can that hurt me?
Before that can happen, I need to:
* Get comfortable with CreativeCommons jargon, and register my work
* Design the site to handle a large collection of downloadable mp3’s
* Find and encode my music
* Confirm with my host that crossing my bandwidth limit will result in being shut-down, not over-charged.
One idea for design would be to do a retro-podcast and post-date entries to when the pieces were written. This might get sloppy. For many of the theatre shows I have composed for, I might have up to 20 pieces to share. How do I post-date all of that?
That reminds me of Moby’s new actions to share selections of his work with all non-profit projects. What a great move.
I can’t help but feel excited that someone somewhere could benefit from my theatrical compositions. That would make me feel successful. So what if I flip my bandwidth limit to spiders.
###Update###
I spoke with my host, and they will indeed shut me off if I go over my bandwidth limit of 400 G/month. This is preferable to charging me extra. When the time comes that I hit my limit and get shut down, I will have garnered enough attention to look into renting a dedicated server. That’s the kind of hurdle I yearn for.
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I quite like Coulton’s model for make it easy to buy, make it possible to hear everything for free. Lots of my music is more suited for soundtrack things. I would be pleased to know some small production is recycling my work (and giving me credit).
Some of the older work is a little rough around the edges. But I’ll stand behind that it as work that represents where I was at at the time. Maybe I could even use this as a reason to do some remix or re-recordings even of older pieces. There are a couple of theatre shows I did where I promised the cast access to the soundtrack, but never got around to making all of the CD’s. (Who uses CD’s anymore anyway?) It would be great to be able to share this with all of the people I have worked with. (Of course with the pretense of “Free or Better Offer.”)
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice? I would love to hear any ideas you may have.
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