Music Success in Nine Weeks

OK so........ I have decided to enter a 'challenge' entitled Music Success in Nine Weeks organized by Ariel Hyatt - The Web 2 promotions queen who is based in NYC. I first came across her work via Derek Sivers. Now there is a story !!

Before I get into that........

I decided late last night to actually enter the competition after idly contemplating it for about a week. Late last night , later than was at all sensible, I managed to sign up and unfortunately also managed to post a mangled pitch which I have not as yet worked out how to fix!

I have been writing and re writing "the pitch" for some time and of course it changes slightly depending on the recipient, my mood and the phase of the moon. I have a whole folder I call BLURBS. I am not entirely sure pitches, blurbs, shameless self promotion? are supposed to morph quite so much. I have always thought of myself as a bit of a chameleon. It is a hard habit to break. Thus my bands name (The Chameleon Collective)

The pitch as it stands reads something like-

A natural integration of  folk, indie rock, classical, world music & ambient sound design. Lush accordian drones,  ambient piano, percussion, guitar, sounds & unearthly vocal harmonies. Created in the ether via email between NYC + the South Coast. The result is something other than either.

This is the very short version - which I think for these purposes is STILL too long.

Today I have been teaching disadvantaged kids how to drum all day and so...I am buggered... Working out how to fix "the pitch" is going to have to wait till tomorrow. As is the Derek Sivers story and how I came across Ariel. How I made my first album with the insanely talented Brian Siskind who is also based in NYC who 'met' on myspace and am yet to even have a conversation with and how so much of my life in the past 12 months has been eaten by a cyber reality which has left me more than ever unsure of my corporeal reality is also going to have to wait until tomorrow.

The other thing that is going to have to wait till tomorrow is finding out what I actually have to do in WEEK ONE !

More tomorrow. I only need to blog once a week for the purposes of the competition. But , i think i may do a little more than that : )