Showing posts with label soundcloud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soundcloud. Show all posts

Yes, I'm back, and I have loads of music! My album, Fear of Circles, several years in the making, was released a couple of weeks ago. It's been a bit of a slow start, as my ability to do promotion and network (not to mention constantly spam and nag at people 24/7) is, compared to my appetite for creating music, somewhat weedy. If you want to help me cover the costs of sharing my music on Soundcloud and Bandcamp, or if you enjoy the music and want to hear more and make me feel good, please consider purchasing.

If you feel it's too expensive, let me know, and I'll consider lowering the price. I pretty much used the price that was recommended to me by Bandcamp and it seemed somewhat fair. I get very little feedback on my music so every sale, comment or share really does make my day. I can't stress that enough :) If there are any weblog writers out there who would like to review it, or know someone that may fancy that task, please let me know and I'll sort out a promo copy. Without coverage, no amount of working on music will ever see the light of day. That is getting truer by the day. Failing that, it's free to listen to at the Bandcamp site.

 Fear of Circles by Sendy

In other news, I started a little weblog called Brainwaves And Duty Cycles a while ago, which I'm going to be dusting off and bringing over to the Gravity Halo blog. Mostly I'll be talking about the philosophy and technical aspects of creating electronic music, but I'll veer off into music reviews, idea sharing, and perhaps a bit of videogame tomfoolery. It's all digital art at the end of the day. I'm also always posting new music, sketches, ideas and gear demos at my Soundcloud page. I'd love to see you stop by and say hi!

Just a little bit of useful info for fans of the blog on getting the most out of our music hosting site Soundcloud.

Let's use the latest mummyshroud track, posted earlier this week, as an example:


When you see this player above you, you have several options. You can click play and simply stream the track directly from this page. Fairly simple. But, did you know that you can also make comments inside the track at specific times? Hold your mouse over the blue bar at the bottom and you'll see the option pop up in a bubble. You do need a soundcloud account to comment like this, but they're free, so go ahead and sign up! Your comments will show up inside the track wherever it's posted, just like my useless comment @ the 1:00 min mark.

From this streaming player you can also download the original mp3 file so you can add it to your personal collection. See that downward arrow on the far right side of the player? It shows up in bold face, which means the track is available to download. Just click the arrow, follow the link and you're all set!

Want to share the track with someone, repost it to your Facebook, your blog, Twitter, Myspace, etc.? The < / > icon that appears on the far right side under the download arrow is for doing just that.

Finally, let's say you're a producer yourself and you want to send us a track that you've made. You don't even have to have a soundcloud account, all yous gotta do is send the track via the Drop Box.

Send me your track

You can find the drop box on any artists's soundcloud page, or you can use the Gravity Halo drop box in the right column of this blog.