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Independent Music DIY #1: Is DIY a viable success strategy for independent artists?

August 31, 2023 by thebengali

Creating music, crafting a musical product, and making music a viable business are three very different worlds. It is important for independent artists to separate business and music creation roles.

Categories: Education, Music • Tags: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Artist, Composer, IPR, iTunes, iTunes India Top Albums Chart, Music, music producer, music roles, negotiating oxytocin, singer, songwriter, Spotify, Teen Musician, Upamanyu Mukherjee

Tim McInnes: A Canadian Neo-classical composer with American Ragtime passions

August 22, 2023 by thebengali

I don’t quite remember the first time I heard Scott Joplin’s ‘The Entertainer’. It was probably around the age of 15 or 16. But I do remember that it felt natural, as if I had always known the musical style. When I first heard the tune – and for at least half a decade thereafter – I did not know that it was a genre called ‘Ragtime’. By the age of 10, I had a fair understanding of the term […]

Categories: Journalism, Music, People, The Arts • Tags: Artist, Canadian Musician, Charlie Chaplin, Classical, Composer, India, Jazz, Maya's Song, music blog, Neo-classical, Pianist, Ragtime, Sanjay Mukherjee, Scott Joplin, Simla, Simla in Ragtime, Spotify, thebengali, Tim McInnes

There Is No Box

November 11, 2017 by thebengali

In 1987, I found myself in what is called a Junior College (Grade 11) in Mumbai. Within a few months, I realised that many of my classmates, some of my neighbourhood playmates, and many former schoolmates were all talking careers, jobs, applications and the like. This was all Greek to me. Thankfully, I still had my very good childhood friends and made a couple of good new ones and our thoughts on life and living were pretty aligned: let’s learn […]

Categories: Learning, Mountain Walking, People, Self, Society, The Arts, Training, Work • Tags: Artist, Brainvisa Technologies, Dadar Catering College, Dmess, employee, Entrepreneur, Institute Of Hotel Management Applied Nutrition And Catering Technology, Peak Pacific Group, RedstoneSummerhill, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self-employed, The Mountain Walker, thebengali, There Is No Box, Times of India

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Independent Music DIY #1: Is DIY a viable success strategy for independent artists?

Tim McInnes: A Canadian Neo-classical composer with American Ragtime passions

There Is No Box