ORPHIC ENDEAVORS

Oh man.... Was this a job...

But it's done! Yay! I started to work on redoing this page yesterday, and here's why... I am a big fan of the band Amethystium, and I was listening to them to other day and got to wondering who they were and what makes the music so great, so I did a little searching online. I stumbled first on this website: http://amethystium.com/, which although stunning and well designed, it's unfinished, and I wanted to know about the origins of the band, so I searched more. Finally, I found an old interview and discovered Amethystium is just one guy... Øystein Ramfjord, who began his music project in 1998, just two years before me. And he started in the same place I did, MP3.com. Wow. What a surprise. Now, Øystein Ramfjord's list of music equipment is the list musicians like me dream of, full of top notch software, servers, various musical instruments and a series of very nice synths, so I can't really come close to competing with that, but he said something in that interview which made me think again about the design of this site.

He said,

If I should give one general advice to a new artist on the web, it would be to focus on details and do everything with the design at the web page etc. as professional as possible. The first impression and the visual part of a web site is without doubt shaping what people think about the music they will be hearing.

And since I can only do just so much with my limited musical equipment, I decided to again focus on this page, because, just as he said, this is where people come to contact me and to find out more no matter how they found the music in the first place. I hope that this design goes further in presenting a more professional image. I'll listen to any advice from anyone visiting this page as well. I can't afford to pay someone to build one, I have to do the work myself, but I am a very fast learner and can figure out a lot of code, with time.

Also, in other news, I ordered Finale's SongWriter software yesterday. It's supposed to be here on the 18th, so I've already started working on more music in anticipation. Between all of these programs I should be able to come up with some good work. I hope so, anyway.

Also, I just joined a place called "Last.FM".
Here's a link: http://www.last.fm/music/Orphic+Endeavors.
I didn't know this place even existed, but I stumbled on it by accident and discovered a list of my music was already there! And a fan list too! Wow! That's so cool! So I joined up. Check it out. If you click on the picture of the Midnight Girl you can see tracks listed. Of course, they're the same tracks available here, but still, it's another doorway for folks to find Orphic Endeavors.

Well, I guess that's about it. I'm going to begin working on fixing "Thunder and Sparrow" as soon as the Finale software gets here. There's a good flute sound in there!

Anyway, thanks so much for downloading and listening!
-Bonnie

(By the way, that quote by Øystein Ramfjord of Amethystium is from this Google cached article: Artists sharing their best promo tips! in case you'd like to read it!)

(PS!!! This site does validate with W3C... Unfortunately, Google's "cache generated" link above causes 12 errors!!!! As soon as that page moves to the archives this front page will validate again. The rest of the site does.)