Your Music House
2006/12/18
Okay, it's been a while since either of us updated, I know.
I just spoke to S. on the phone, and I think it's going to be pretty busy, these next few months.
A quick overview, again, of what we want to offer:
-mp3s free for download, with the option of purchasing an audio CD (with higher-quality sound). A CD wouldn't have to be one album from the same artist - one could pick-and-mix tracks.
-sheet music free for download, with the option of purchasing a high-quality printed hardcopy.
I don't want to offer anything for sale on the website that isn't also available in some format for free. I do want all contributing artists to be reimbursed for every bit of work we sell for them, and also to receive a share of donations made to the site.
Unfortunately, none of this can be started off for free. The following things are going to cost us:
-domain name registration
-web server space rental
-database design/coding? I can update things by hand to start with but eventually we will need something more sophisticated than what I can write
-also eventually website design, although to start with I can put something up
-publicity materials - we can get business cards for free or close to it, but we'll need a bit for things like flyers at some point.
-some money upfront for materials (CDs, jackets for them, good paper for printing sheet music, or possibly a good printer as well, or possibly both, or possibly getting it printed elsewhere, professionally)
We get a total of £200 from Trinity for the entire project.
That button goes to my PayPal account, but it is a unique button to this project and all funds will go toward the project. Eventually we will replace it with our very own PayPal account, or some other sort of online money transfer thing if PayPal is too evil.
Recommendations for webspace and domain registration gratefully invited.
Additionally, we're thinking about publicity. We'll need quite a few artists to contribute in order for this to work - but why should they contribute if there is not a substantial audience? And how will we have any audience if there is little or no content? For a while, we'll have to pimp this out everywhere. I'm tentatively considering a tour of Canada (and possibly the US? but would have to look into visa issues, eep scary) this summer, to record music and spread the word, but this will require some fairly major funding - travel isn't cheap, and I still have to pay rent back in London. First things first, let's get the website up and running.
K. ¶ 12:44 1 comments
I just spoke to S. on the phone, and I think it's going to be pretty busy, these next few months.
A quick overview, again, of what we want to offer:
-mp3s free for download, with the option of purchasing an audio CD (with higher-quality sound). A CD wouldn't have to be one album from the same artist - one could pick-and-mix tracks.
-sheet music free for download, with the option of purchasing a high-quality printed hardcopy.
I don't want to offer anything for sale on the website that isn't also available in some format for free. I do want all contributing artists to be reimbursed for every bit of work we sell for them, and also to receive a share of donations made to the site.
Unfortunately, none of this can be started off for free. The following things are going to cost us:
-domain name registration
-web server space rental
-database design/coding? I can update things by hand to start with but eventually we will need something more sophisticated than what I can write
-also eventually website design, although to start with I can put something up
-publicity materials - we can get business cards for free or close to it, but we'll need a bit for things like flyers at some point.
-some money upfront for materials (CDs, jackets for them, good paper for printing sheet music, or possibly a good printer as well, or possibly both, or possibly getting it printed elsewhere, professionally)
We get a total of £200 from Trinity for the entire project.
That button goes to my PayPal account, but it is a unique button to this project and all funds will go toward the project. Eventually we will replace it with our very own PayPal account, or some other sort of online money transfer thing if PayPal is too evil.
Recommendations for webspace and domain registration gratefully invited.
Additionally, we're thinking about publicity. We'll need quite a few artists to contribute in order for this to work - but why should they contribute if there is not a substantial audience? And how will we have any audience if there is little or no content? For a while, we'll have to pimp this out everywhere. I'm tentatively considering a tour of Canada (and possibly the US? but would have to look into visa issues, eep scary) this summer, to record music and spread the word, but this will require some fairly major funding - travel isn't cheap, and I still have to pay rent back in London. First things first, let's get the website up and running.
K. ¶ 12:44 1 comments
