+ What are you working on? Share your musical goals with us and we’ll hook you up with a Soundfly Mentor to help you reach them! Recently our friends over at The Outline published a great piece called, “Finding New Music in the Algorithm Age.” The article collects input from six experts and industry veterans, people who work…
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. How much time does your band spend arguing over setlists, or who gets to write them? Back up… how much time do you even spend…
We just launched a new online course with Bandzoogle called How to Create a Killer Musician Website, and made it free. Part of the reason we made it free is because, to us, having a website to serve as a home base for all your musical things is necessary, and this is essential knowledge for any…
Well, this is special! Today marks our 1,000th post on Flypaper. It’s been a 44-month long journey, which equates to about 957 work days (minus holidays), so that works out pretty close to about one article every weekday for almost four years! That takes a lot of hard work, a lot of amazingly committed and driven…
Where’s Your Inspiration Coming From? Brian Eno’s latest algorithmically looping album, Reflection, was inspired by the process of gardening. Sound artist Mileece “harvests” inspiration by giving voice to plants and organic matter in specialized environments. And then there’s Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, whose music was inspired by nature’s deep silences. As musicians, composers, and performers, our inspirations motivate and color the music we make,…
It’s all about the story. Fundraising experts will say this time and time again: “People fund people, not ideas.” In other words, when asking for money, what tends to get through to your audience the most is having a compelling and personal story, and a drive to succeed, not necessarily a great business idea. When it…
Welcome back to Soundfly’s weekly interview series, Incorrect Music, curated by guitarist, singer, and composer Lora-Faye Åshuvud (of the band Arthur Moon). In this series, we present intimate conversations with artists who are striving to push the boundaries of their process and craft. The Finnish singer/songwriter, composer and improviser, Laura Naukkarinen has been steadily releasing spectral, lush music under the moniker…
*Editor’s Note: I interviewed Bernie Krause for BESIDE Magazine’s second issue exactly a year ago, and it has become dramatically evident that a lot has changed since we last spoke. In preparing for this repost, we contacted Krause to request his permission to run this piece and his response floored us, sending uncontrollable tears down my face…
Dear Reader, THANK YOU for all the support you’ve given us this year. You’re one of well over a million new people we’ve met in the last 12 months, and we couldn’t be happier that you’ve somehow found your way here. If this is your first time landing to rest your wings on Flypaper, you’ve got…
Holiday content doesn’t typically get searched-for, found, or read, after the morning bells of January 1st stop ringing — but for some reason, people have been emailing me all year about Soundfly’s 2016 “Bizarre Holiday Gift List.” So, I guess there really is no time of the year when it isn’t appropriate to buy someone…
