Things have been going pretty good since the start of the year. I feel my music has come a long way and my sphere of influence has slightly grown.
Right now, there are three things going on:
- Making music -- Big surprise right? I'm working on three touhou albums at once currently. There's Dead on the Synth, which is going to be this pseudo-darksynth and harder synthwave-y stuff I've been making. It's probably going to be a shorter album than most my other ones since I'm feeling ready to move on. Maybe I'll come back to that style though. The other two albums, I don't know what the release order will be or what I'll call them yet. There will be an album of lighter, more traditional synthwave and 80's sounding arranges, and an album of the cinematic cyberpunk that I've really been enjoying making. I'll likely release Dead on the Synth around the beginning of May, and depending on what my summer looks like, aim for another release around the end of August.
- Album art -- I've found someone to make album art for Dead on the Synth. For my other two albums in progress, I haven't started looking for anybody yet, but I've got some ideas: A cyberpunk cover for the cyberpunk album, something much like the image I used as art for the Selene's Night video; A "400 foot fumo" for the synthwave/80s album, which I will probably give that name, something like this. If you would like to or know somebody who would like to do either of those, please reach out to me.
- Growing my reach -- This part is such a headache but its crucial. I also really don't know what I'm doing. For a while, I had stopped posting to Instagram (which was the only form of social media I used) and was only posting my songs here. I went back to posting on Instagram though. I also went back to posting all my stuff on YouTube (something which had been a huge pain because of editing and processing time, but now I can do it in only a few minutes). I post my music in a few places on Reddit too. To this list, I'm going to try to add Twitter and TikTok. Ultimately though, I feel that growing purely through social media is a very long and slow process. The best way is to find opportunities and such. That is the part that I really don't know how to do. I guess I can wait for opportunities to come to me, but that is just part of social media. Oh well. I'll get it figured out, but if anyone has any advice, I would love to hear it.
So yeah. That's a roadmap of what I've been up to and where things are going. I'll drop some links now.
TheGoldenProof on Apple/iTunes
TheGoldenProof on Bandcamp (WIP)
Coming soon: TheGoldenProof on TikTok (ugh I really don't want anything to do with TikTok)
thegoldenproof.com (WIP, I'll start working on it this summer)