Welcome to my place!
It’s been a couple of months since I started working on this—and I still have a lot of ideas to implement—but I’d say I’ve reached the point at which my website is finally usable! I’ve been putting in a lot of care; I want this to be the place where every information regarding my music (with which I have a deep emotive bond) can be found.
The reason
To this day musicians have a lot of pressure to have a presence on mainstream social media, on which a constant presence is required to get the slightest attention. I won’t hide from you my struggle in navigating such an environment. I’ve lost a bit of hope in trying to publish with regularity. always finding myself out of time.
Moreover, mainstream platforms are extremely closed and give (relatively) little control to the ones who use them.
I wanted a place where I had full control of every detail, where anyone interested
in my music could find everything they wanted freely, without login walls or
paywalls.
I wanted to be able to share without limits the stories behind my compositions and
my lyrics.
I wanted a place that was mine.
That’s why I decided to realize this project, which from now on will be my central
place for my online presence.
A better web
Personally I think every artist should have a website, for reachability and independence from restrictive platforms, but also and especially for free access and past preservation. Sure, socials are useful to make one’s own art discovered by new people and to keep one’s own followers quickly updated, but I think that the center of the online presence of every artist should be a website, that better allows the realization the creative vision of one’s own work and puts fewer constraints.
Realizing a website is not as difficult as it seems. My studies give me out-of-the-norm technical knowledge, but there exist a lot of simple ways to create a website, made for those who don’t even know what HTML is.
The future
I surely won’t stop publishing on classical social media (even though I recently started using more ethical ones, like Mastodon and Peertube), but from now on this will be my operating center, where everything I want to share will be initially published.
I intend to, besides small various improvements, add an RSS feed to allow you to keep up with the site and to insert (gradually) under every album and composition some stories about how I conceived and realized them.
In this “blog” section I intend to share, as it was a newsletter (that I will maybe manage some day, but it’s not in the plans now), various announcements and some personal opinions about things related to music or art in general.
I ask you, if you find something not working on the site, to send me an email so that I can fix it (I would be extremely grateful for that; some things pass by without my noticing).
That said, I say goodbye to you and I invite you to visit the site a bit. See you soon!