Process-folio

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Human Illusion

The EP

  • 3-4 Tracks
  • Digital Human
  • Elements
  • Countdown to EP using pictures of Debbie
  • Give away a free t-shirt to first 10/20 who buy the EP. Proof of sale through screenshot on Twitter.

Online Presence

  • Headshots Photoshoot on Tuesday/Wednesday
  • In Studio Photoshoot
  • Become a verified artist on Spotify
  • Facebook status
  • More photos and videos of progress
  • Video for name change (x-factor style)
  • All social media will go up at the same time when we put our profile picture back on our facebook page
  • Promo for EP sales: give away a t-shirt to first 10/20 people who buys/downloads album. Proof of purchase by posting picture on twitter
  • Mailing list – Mailchimp

Promotion and distribution

  • Ask Tom in lecture about promoters on MMM’s
  • Taken Facebook profile picture from our page.
  • Making a big deal about coming back online.
  • Fiver Video – News report/ X-Factor video for our change of band name.
  • What is our demographic?

New band name ideas that we didn’t use:

  • Outwalk.
  • The Walk.
  • Inwalk.
  • Walk Out.

Aesthetic

  • DIY
  • Going back to basics, utilising the instruments we can play to combine them with the upbeat electronic style we are portraying.

Potential Artwork:

Human Illusion logo 2

Human Illusion logo

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#ProducerKitty

Notes from the presentation:

You’ve got a really strong starting point and have already demonstrated a good grasp of all the disciplines covering the making of a project such as this.  You’re now into the shaping of a coherent and engaging artist identity, this might require that you research and immerse yourselves further into popular culture as a discourse.  Some things to think about:

  • How does the name embrace the concept – is there something about conforming to identity models – and what human is?  Are you looking at Post- Humanism agendas?  Robert Peperall – Post Human Condition – good starting point for artist driven projects (although a relatively old text now)
  • Be aware there is a nostalgia movement  at present in electronic music –  which seems to be conferring a humanising of the relationship that we presume to have with technology – nostalgia / retro / craft of technology
  • Another interesting area is Accelerationism  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in
  • Plenty of influence and within pop music (PC MUSIC – QT / Hannah Diamond / Charlie XX ) prophetic perspective (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu).

 Search for ‘technostalgia’ – it may help you get a sense of the significance of some of this feedback for your work (popular and academic articles address this).

Mailchimp, or an equivalent, could be a useful tool to help you to synchronise your marketing plan.

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