DAN JACOB WALLACE

Here’s a pre-mastering preview track from my as of yet untitled album due out this summer. The song is called “I Want to Be”, and is about my day job. The stream-of-consciousness arrangement is a metaphor for the dazed daydream quality office life induces. To listen, left-click; to download the MP3, right-click (or use the [...]

I always hoped I’d be the eccentric wealthy person funding my projects, but seeing how I’m neither of those things, I’ll have to look elsewhere. Before I break down what kind of money is needed and for what, there’s the big question: What do you, the eccentric wealthy person get out of it? - A monetary [...]

Previously I linked an interview with Seth Godin about the music industry. One of the questions got me thinking again about whether or not there is any point to releasing a physical CD, or is that format on its quick way out? Here’s what Godin says: R&G: With the a la carte downloads offered by [...]

Here’s an interesting interview about the music industry with Seth Godin at Rollo & Grady. Godin is a marketing guru known for such books as Purple Cow and Unleashing the Ideavirus (which I read and liked). His latest book is Tribes. Here’s the interview: http://www.rollogrady.com/rollo-grady-interview-seth-godin/ What he says isn’t necessarily new to anyone who spends [...]

I read an interesting article by Miles Rayner in this week’s Chicago Reader Sharp Darts column. It’s about the glutony that is 00′s digital music consumption, and, more importantly, what some people are doing about it. Like the self-imposed music-listening regimine journalist Michaelangelo Matos calls the “Slow Listening Movement”. The idea is to create a strict diet [...]

I have more thoughts on this that I haven’t sorted out (and all the responses – many interesting one – I got on the original post were at Facebook/MySpace), but in the meanwhile, here’s a fascinating Wikipedia entry on “Timbral Listening”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_Listening Timbral Listening From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Timbral Listening is the process of actively [...]

I wasn’t planning to release an album this year, but a couple of weeks ago I started working on one anyway. I’m approaching it differently this time. Instead of the usual process of spending a year writing and recording songs, I’ll be doing this one in a couple of months. I’m also giving less regard [...]