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Let’s go back in time
A few months ago we talked about a Mike Oldfield video from 1975 which used the videosong concept and at the time we assumed that it could be the very first videosong. Since then, Chazz and Ethan Winer sent us the two following videos. The first one is the famous jazz standard “Take 5″ by Eleck Bacsik taken from a [...]
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A few tips to improve your videos
More and more videosongs are released every day and now as the media begins to be well known, we see a good deal of videosongs that just look the same. In this article I’ll show you some tips on how you can improve your videos, illustrated with examples taken from the last videosong I shot for Silent Birds, “Wrong”. 1. [...]
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CwF + RtB = $$$$
Since Jack Conte, we now know that it’s possible to make a living with the music outside the music industry business. Here is a speech about the “Trent Reznor case study” at the Midem (short for Marché International du Disque et de l’Edition Musicale – the world’s largest music industry trade fair, which has been held annually at the Palais des [...]
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Don’t start a band !
The videoSong is a great tool to create music in many different ways. Inside the videoSong phenomenon can be distinguished other phenomena or trends rather interesting. One of them is the virtual reunion of a group. We have all been part of a group that broke up after a move, childbirth or even an argument… and when a group splits, [...]
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They tried to make me go to collab…
…I said yes, yes, yes. The recent announcement of Lauren O’Connell and Nataly Dawn’s collaboration, under the name “My Terrible Friend”, is a good occasion to cover this very fashionable fashion in the world of videosongs: collaboration. The videosong format is very flexible and practical: everything (or almost everything) is done after recording. Video editing, the audio mix, it all [...]
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Almost a videosong
I’ve had this video in my Youtube favorites for months and it’s only now, watching it for the 100th time that it caught my eye. If it’s not a videosong, it could have been one. But one of the two golden rules of videosongs (the first one) is widely violated in that video, because shots aren’t from the audio recording [...]
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Music for sale
We saw recently in Jack Conte’s interview that he came to live from his music. His songs are sold on his website (in mp3 format), as well as on iTunes and Amazon. He is also present on streaming platforms such as Spotify. The question is how much CDs or MP3s do we have to sell to earn the equivalent of the minimum wage ? The diagram [...]
