I looked at table 6 and thought it was helpful and exciting to understand the different levels of ecosystems within being an artist. Specifically, everything you have to do and know in order to flourish in these environments. I’m glad to see that a lot of it I do already. Networking, learning new skills, sharing work, helping others and being part of a community.
I will now do the exercise and consider the art ecologies that could help sustain my work and being a professional artist.
Firstly I think for what I want to do a network of close and expanded groups of people is the defining thing. To have others that do similar work, record and perform together live. Do projects that can feature each other, share equipment, sharing each other’s works. Promoting each other and co-existing is super important. On a large scale, being multiple countries and other teams of people or groups to a smaller scale being close friends, close colleagues of musical/creative endeavours,
Secondly, I think to have knowledge of the independent music industry. Despite my hatred for the major label music industry, the independent music industry is currently flourishing and is what I enjoy working with. Knowing the right label would be a huge help for me, I want to release my work through an independent label that could promote me in the correct way and get the right people to listen and help distribute and promote my new work, help to get me on tour and expose more of my work.
Thirdly I think working for others and giving back is the last step for my ecosystem, charity Audioactive is something I’ve been part of for years, running workshops where I teach young people to engineer/produce music and songwrite.
