Falcon Dashboards
Falcon Dashboards
Instruments, Controls, and Convenience Features
Falcon Dashboards
I did five music livestreams in the past week on my YouTube channel.
“Falcon Dashboards” was probably my favorite - it’s a kind of frantic, arpeggio-laden electronica with lots of processing.
This week, I switched from using my paintings as the video image and thumbnail over to my late father’s collection of automobile owner’s manuals. He was more of a MOPAR guy, but he had a couple of Ford Falcons along the way, and that’s where I got the above picture.
I liked how the owner’s manual had an image of the dashboard that says “Instruments, controls, and convenience features”.
And the dash is full of knobs and buttons. No menus or screens anywhere! Just like how my effects boxes are. It’s fitting.
DISCO
This week, I cleaned up the DISCO page for Brighter Curves, my latest ambient release. Everybody is free to go out there and stream the music. But the main audience at DISCO will be music libraries, sync agencies, music supervisors for film/tv/commercial purposes, and the like.
New Substack Page
Another thing I worked on this week was a new page at Substack for Mark Rushton Music that acts as a landing page, or a kind of a “link tree”, of All Things Mark Rushton - click through below and see:
For Now
I’ll be busy around the first of July and shortly thereafter. I’m leaving my publishing administrator on June 30th and going independent again, something I have talked about too much already. This change will result in a lot of emails with other companies, tickets opened up, and bulk files being uploaded and processed. It’s all good. It’s OK to be independent. I hear of a lot of independent musicians and recording artists out there who want everything to be easy. Or they want to chase down every last royalty penny around the world. They believe that an alleged “efficiency of scale” is more important than control. Sorry, kids, but control is more important. You must control your catalog. You must put in the time and learn the industry, learn systems, and learn the software needed to make it happen. “Give me convenience or give me death!” should be a warning, not a mantra.