DMusic.com is a social community for musicians on the internet. It allows artists to share their music and promote themselves through interaction. Anyone can listen, download, send, and comment on songs for free. The community can also set up profiles with pictures, journals (blogs), personal info, and more.
DMusic differentiates between an artist and a user. Each user is able to share an artist account with other members of their band. The user is then able to interact on a personal level as well as on a more professional level.
DMusic is also a source for digital music news, reviews, information.
History DMusic was originally created as part of a larger network of both art and music related websites along with DeviantArt.
In 1997, high school sophomore Angelo Sotira founded a company he called Dimension Music. The site originally featured links to illegal MP3s, but eventually it was transformed into a genuinely legal site. He sold it in 1999 to Michael Ovitz and his Lynx Technology Group. It became part of DMusic Network, LLC. In 2001, the company was again sold, this time to L. Feldman who presides over it today.
Sections Artist's Page As a DMusic artist, artists are automatically given an artist page, which is in addition to their user page. Artist pages show artist pics and the music they have uploaded. Listeners can stream in lofi or hifi, download an artist’s music, comment on and rate the tracks, post on the artist’s forum board, read artist news, check out what events that are coming up, and see who else is viewing the artist’s page
Forums Forums centered around music, hardware or software, or anything else.
DMusic Radio DMusic has several assorted streaming radio channels with tracks from many of popular genres. For each channel, there’s also a link that takes a listener to that particular channel’s forum thread, so that a listener can read and, if a registered user, add their Radio comments and suggestions.
Copyright DMusic assists artists to federally register copyrights for their tracks for a fee. DMusic will have the application reviewed by an attorney and submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office.
DMusic Awards To showcase talent and recognize great musical achievements, the DMusic Awards were started in 2005. Winners are first nominated by members of the DMusic community in their respective genres and then go for site wide votes.
DMusic Store DMusic is currently in beta tests of an online store which allows artists to sell their music through the site. It also includes works by artists of Lost Gold Records, which was acquired by DMusic in mid-2004.
Your comments about tanpirsiion remind me of writing book reports in high-school, where my writing style was obviously influenced by the book (being the most recent thing I had read). I'd pick up all kind of punctuation quirks and vocabulary I would never use otherwise. It didn't occur to me at the time, but picking up a wider stylistic toolkit might have been one of the primary points of those assignments (or at least a valuable side-effect).One of the reasons that I think I distanced myself from listening to music was to avoid being influenced in that way. Perhaps that's a recipe for never growing (as it would have been if I had taken the same tack for writing book reports), but I already have enough musical baggage. The best example is tonality. I could never hear another tonal piece again in my life, but I'll still expect every tritone to be resolved by step. The music I've already heard is more than enough to react to.There's obviously more to talk about here, both in regards to composing and growing as a person, so I'm sure I will explore it more at some point. Part of me wonders, though, if our different situations force us to deal with different issues. I'm under no pressure to write, so I don't suffer from writer's block as much as an occasional lack of motivation to write. I haven't so much as sat down to compose in months. I've thought a lot about score presentation, which is becoming an increasing source of tanpirsiion for me, but I haven't written a note. I'm in a position where I can wait until the muse finds me, which is a luxury that I can't imagine is available to anyone in a degree program. I kind of wish I was in your position, as composing every single day was a good habit that I've completely gotten out of.I know you weren't asking for advice, but I've always found more tanpirsiion from thinking and talking about music than listening to it (then again, I've always been in an environment where I had to listen to music, so I could be wrong here). I guess what I'm saying is that I'm always happy to talk about music if you think it'll help.
