Future plans

 

I have been working very hard since the beginning of September 08. Believe it or not - Since then I have been working nearly 7 days a week to get all things done which had to be done and to push new ideas forward. It was a very hard but also very successful time since we think back to the movie I scored, the Hollywood placement, becoming a featured artist at taxi.com, getting signed by international digital music distribution companies, having a whole concert series realized with 7 color - concerts performing each time 7 originals on piano and guitar. Those who only know me as a guitarist might not know that I have the same professional abbilities on the piano as well. My vision of colormusic has leaded to serveral request to produce movies, DVD's or other projects with my colormusic.

 

So you might see what the problem is. It is far too much for a one man company, and to be honest this has leaded to some health and personal problems which made me stop now and starting to think about my real priorities. I have made my desicions now :

 

1. Live - Playing : I definitly want to get back the reagular live - playing where I perform my music and my abilties on piano & guitar. It is not that easy because I have been away the music-scene for nearly 10 years - and of course to get booked at the really great places you need to know the booking managers. Making all the networking is a lot of work and of course I can not do too much of it because I am busy enough with my music. So I am lucky that I now have finally got somebody who is taking care of this business. We got some great ideas how my music and my show can be set up in special occasions to create a fanbase and then to finally performe at festivals, concert halls ...

 

2. DVD - Production : I am in fact planing to realize a DVD series with my music and some visual effects but this is displaced. The current setting with my team is not how it should be and I think this DVD can wait.

 

3. Online - Education work : I will keep up my online education work on guitartricks.com and my own 3 websites. I already made kind of a schedule stragegie where I can put together my efforts on live - playing and creating great new online lessons. But the focus on my teaching videos will be more in the advanced playing section since this is the strategie which will persist in international competition with my current business setting.

 

4. Music for TV, Movie & Hollywood : I had some very lucky moments with my composer work since I started 18 months ago. I will focus on my core - business here as well producing my style of music as can be heared at my liveperformences or on http://www.music-pictures.com. So if those internation music libraries still want my music its OK. I already have had many placements including the one on the ABC serial " Ugly Betty " but I will not do any scoring or composing work anymore which is outside my main core - business even when I have made a lot of money. I think an artist should not go too far away from what he really feels because this might stop all creativity as it happened to me now.

 

So this is an outlook for the upcoming months and probably years. I will now slowy get back to work, but now I really will keep in mind where my real priorities are and don't forget to really enjoy life beside my work. This might slow things down but will keep my work up on the long term ;-)

tis a far better thing to be who you are, than be who they want you to be for sure. as an artist this is also a good example you set. to live your dreams and work smart and not exaust yourself...

 

anything we can do to assist here you know we got your back.

 

peace...

 

stevo

tis a far better thing to be who you are

 

That's exacly the point. This upcoming DVD project really showed that I have been pretty away from what I am. I am glad that I stopped it now because at the end I would had to compose music which I do not really feel - link on the SULZER movie.

 

So I go back to the roots and it is good to know that you guys support me.

Hello HP

 

I was able to vistit your colour concerts in Zuerich three times and enjoyed them very much. It was amazing to see and hear you playing both guitar and piano at such a high level. On some pieces of music you even played them both alternatively which astonished me even more. I very much think you will have an enthusiastic audiance if you go for more live music as I often would have liked to hear even more of your music at these concerts.

 

Wishing you all possible success on your projects

 

Cheers Cosmos

(Bubikon Switzerland)

Hello HP

 

I was able to vistit your colour concerts in Zuerich three times and enjoyed them very much. It was amazing to see and hear you playing both guitar and piano at such a high level. On some pieces of music you even played them both alternatively which astonished me even more. I very much think you will have an enthusiastic audiance if you go for more live music as I often would have liked to hear even more of your music at these concerts.

 

Wishing you all possible success on your projects

 

Cheers Cosmos

(Bubikon Switzerland)

 

Which one were you - I guess I met you but I just now I do not remember.

 

Just editing the videos of the last concert where I played both instruments. I will upload them soon.

 

Yes those concerts in Zürich showed me that my colormusic works and people love it. Imagine that I did not do any active promotion for them and still the people came. This is a thing which shall be changed - it is only a matter of that people are there and they love it. The other thing which has to be better is the professional setting probably with more lightshow stuff. But the desicion is final - I will get this working on national and hopefully international liveshows. My contacts and success stories from 10 years online business might help me.

Which one were you - I guess I met you but I just now I do not remember.

 

Just editing the videos of the last concert where I played both instruments. I will upload them soon.

 

Yes those concerts in Zürich showed me that my colormusic works and people love it. Imagine that I did not do any active promotion for them and still the people came. This is a thing which shall be changed - it is only a matter of that people are there and they love it. The other thing which has to be better is the professional setting probably with more lightshow stuff. But the desicion is final - I will get this working on national and hopefully international liveshows. My contacts and success stories from 10 years online business might help me.

 

Well my wife an I were visiting the first two concerts and the last concert. At the first or the second concert I asked you some questions about your equipment but it was only a short conversation. Anyway I hope to meet you at another occasion.

 

I am looking forward to the videos and I am sure the other people on this site will also like seeing you in action.

 

Your guitar and piano playing plus your touch technique will interest many people. It is rare to see this in combination. Well I have never seen it before and will visit your concerts agin.

 

Cosmos

Ah now I remember you. I think this was at the red concert.

 

I am on the video editing now. The first one is up now. This was at the final concert. Somebody was there with a videokamera and sent me the files this week.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesguGDFw0A

Ah now I remember you. I think this was at the red concert.

 

I am on the video editing now. The first one is up now. This was at the final concert. Somebody was there with a videokamera and sent me the files this week.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesguGDFw0A

 

Great I watched the videos on Youtube and enjoyed them. Thank you for posting them.

 

Cosmos & wife

Hi HP,

 

Is it Freud that said you need a balance between work and pleasure. You were working alot indeed. You had to make choices to get back to a reasonable balanced state. And yes it's a matter of long term vision. Postponing your DVD projects isnt a bad thing . Sales of DVD are constantly decreasing anyways and with what is happening on the web, music is increasingly sold thru different channels than traditional music stores . Websites like Live365 are selling packages of music in the same way you buy a package of TV channels thru cable or satellite TV. Although if one of your song is played you get royalties it mostly help promote the artists that will perform live I think. I think you're going in the right direction in wanting to play live.

 

I dont come here so often now. Been working alot on my music mainly wrting songs. Am working on 3 at this moment. The last one being a medieval type of song. I needed to use a different kind of picking style using alot of double stop which I use on a jazzy chord progression that I started working on also. I'm havin fun exploring different style of music.

 

take care

 

denis