New site!
Hello all,
Welcome to my new and improved site! I am consolidating some of my web activities all in one place. My blog, which heretofore has been at http://andrewoliver.wordpress.com will be moved here, which I know is annoying, but it will only happen once! I have imported all the old posts from that site below.
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Music Industry 2.0 – Websites
I’ve been recently jumping on board the ever-expanding and accelerating bandwagon of Web 2.0 in general and of people writing on its effects on the music industry in particular (watch for significant updates at http://www.andrewoliver.net soon). Much of the online literature is on the subject of giving away vs. selling your music, which I will [...]
PJCE Spring Concert Wrapup
(photo by Maureen Oliver, more photos from the concert here)
Well it seems that the PJCE is taking up a lot of space on here recently, although I have some other posts in the works (as well as lots of projects, the list of which was rather frighteningly long when I read it out loud to [...]
as "grassroots" as they come…
We rehearsed the PJCE the other night at a place called AudioCinema in Portland’s industrial district. It is a great space, large and good-sounding, where I hope to do some gigs/mini-festivals or something in the future. Nonetheless, an extremely loud rock band was rehearsing in another part of the building, which made playing the more [...]
Finished Products
So it’s nearly time for the summer Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble concert, this coming Friday. Co-directing this band is one of my favorite projects to date, though it’s quite time consuming and often frustrating to get fourteen musicians together to rehearse and perform four times a year, in addition to convincing various fantastic composers to [...]