I just listened to some of @Roberta ‘s music on Mirlo and it occurred to me that I haven’t yet engaged much with the music made by all the amazing musicians gathered here. Which gave me an idea. How about we have a monthly listening party, where we all get online at the same time and listen to a few albums by our forum members (albums for the much agreed in advance maybe with some random selection tool?). This is mainly for members of the.socialmusic.network to get more familiar with each other and our musical outputs, but I’m all for making it open to all, even posting invites on the fediverse.
I love this idea and I would show up for as many as I could.
I just attended @keef’s new EP listening party and they followed it up by just playing back catalog songs with some visuals and we chatted for an hour. It was super fun and I learned a bunch, actually, about several tracks I hadn’t heard before.
@keef has a write-up somewhere explaining the OBS setup used which could help anyone wanting to do a similar thing.
A couple of thoughts:
https://cal.gravitons.org/ is one place I look for live music events on fedi, it is open for anyone to announce a live stream music event, I think
That gets federated over and aggregated and republished on https://nham.co.uk/attend/ along with bandwagon.fm events and maybe some other things
I think cross promoting as much as possible to make sure events are known about is important and useful
There’s even a matrix group where people announce they are going live: #freestream:matrix.org - not specific to music, but music is more than ok. It’d be nice if calendars could post in groups like that when events start.
We (#TIBtv) are going to try to open chat every Friday at 18:00 UTC for an hour for Fresh Friday - where we’ll watch the new videos uploaded to that week. https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/ we’ve done 1 so far and the chat was lots of fun.
Yes I think this could work well. The individual release parties are lovely but there’s always a terrible fear no-one will turn up, which I think puts people off having them.
But a group space reduces that risk a lot and might give an opening to people who wouldn’t usually do that sort of thing.