Researching the Music Industry PT 2

One problem I faced in my researching phase was struggling to find the time to really dive deep into the research by contacting people first hand as I had planned. However, with the progress of another friend's GL Project for my CCA, she was able to contact the people I intended to contact, where those same people gathered to share different topics in Crash Courses for our juniors.

Although the courses weren't targeting me, I decided to view them anyway, as they contained information that would further help me understand the music industry.

The notes I took can be viewed here, but as always, do continue reading to view my takeaways!

Danish's Crash Course was more of an introduction on what to do after a song is made. Something he touched on that peaked my curiousity was an EPK, or Electronic Press Kit. It was essentially as he puts it, "a LinkedIn for a musician", and was full of details about who you are as an artist, your projects, and everything in between. Music Vox had a website, but we rarely ever updated it as I mentioned in my previous research summary. He also mentioned how the maximisation of a distributor's services could help push songs forwards into things such as playlists, which was something we never really tried and tested with the EP previously as well. These were all things to consider expanding on, and it was quite eye-opening to realise that there was still much we could do.

Gabrielle's crash course was a slightly more technical one, as she shared about the legalities of music distribution and what comes with it. The main takeaway from this was the portion where she expanded on how to get one's works out there, that being either through Social Media Marketing, Competitions and Events, the services that distributers offer, and Physically through word of mouth. This really got me to think about the wide range of what one could do to share music, and how not to be afraid to try something out. I think what I realise as I go on having different ideas is that I have so many, that I sometimes fail to realise if its needed or not. But then again I think in that creative process, I really get to see what could work or not, and that journey of learning was something I particularly enjoyed seeing developed as I went on with my deliverables.