{"id":13,"date":"2014-09-17T16:37:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinphilipsmith.wordpress.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2014-09-17T16:37:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T16:37:13","slug":"the-online-troubadour-a-musical-experiment-for-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"The Online Troubadour &#8211; a musical experiment for the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve had this idea&#8230; in my blog on business creativity <a href=\"http:\/\/alterativus.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, I wrote about the potential for business innovators to reach out to their customers online and involve them directly in the development of new products and services. \u00a0So&#8230; what if I was extend this idea to me as a musician? \u00a0What if I was to reach out my audience and ask them to become involved in my creative process? How far could I take this? \u00a0There are some interesting possibilities. \u00a0I could ask folks to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide feedback on new material I have written. \u00a0See which new songs people like and which they don&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>Feedback on parts of songs in progress e.g. I could present some options for lyrics and ask\u00a0you to say which you prefer<\/li>\n<li>Contribute their own performance or composition skills to a song<\/li>\n<li>Comment on or suggest songs for me to cover<\/li>\n<li>Attend online performances<\/li>\n<li>Suggest and vote on venues for me to perform live. If enough people want to come and see me in a particular town&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Vote on what should be in my set-list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and so on. \u00a0I am open to suggestions! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Coupling this with my re-awakened passion for the art of the solo singer-songwriter <strong>The Online Troubadour<\/strong> seems an appropriate name for this project.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the spirit of this new venture, I turn to you dear audience for your opinions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[polldaddy poll=8314055]<\/p>\n<p>Any other feedback, suggestions etc. all very gratefully received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve had this idea&#8230; in my blog on business creativity here, I wrote about the potential for business innovators to reach out to their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,23,26,27,36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/lute-player.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}