[NewMusic] Fwd: Music, Economics, Manifestos and Ebay

[Jon Raskin]

I like the idea and I think the email to mouth is a pretty good approach.  There is a site, whose name escapes me at the moment, where artists sign up (for a fee) and than you create a user base where fans can buy merchandise and put money into projects and recordings and be listed as sponsers.  This seems like a better idea if you have web chops because is drives traffic to your site and I like the way you handle the public area for the sponser on your web page.  Ebay does handle the money easily. 

As for getting expanding the reach, finding more lists like this one is obvious, maybe contacting organizations like Other Minds or American Composers Orchestra that have websites and organizations promote new works.   

----- Original Message ----
From: Celeste Hutchins <celesteh at casaninja.com>
To: newmusic at music.mills.edu
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:47:55 AM
Subject: [NewMusic] Fwd: Music, Economics, Manifestos and Ebay


Hi folks,

  I'm in the midst of a project and I'm seeking free internet publicity.
Any of you got tips on how to get it?

  The project is a series of very short works, commissioned by folks via
e-commerce.  I have a manifesto of sorts:
http://celesteh.blogspot.com/2007/03/ebay.html

  This idea of how to do music in a post-copyright environment is an
important part of the project for me as is public participation.  So I need
the public's eye.  I tried submitting to Boing Boing, but they didn't bite.
Where else should I try?

  Thanks!

cheers,
Les

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