Plans for 2010 and beyond

Happy new year to you all
I am currently drawing up plans for an improved podcast studio. It’s only on the drawing board at the moment but I have a budget in place for it already, so it will definitely happen – better set and lighting, a bit more space to run an occasional interview, moving up to 1080 resolution videos and occasional trio performances in studio.

To date the videos on the site have been mainly either performances or lessons, here’s a sneak preview of the other topics you can expect to see covered in the coming year
Out on a limb – videos about musicians who have taken a risk because of an idea they had and it has paid off. Practise – besides ideas about WHAT to practise – this would be a series of videos about ideas to KEEP you practising. Musician’s stories – I have been collecting these in 2009 and plan to start a series in the next couple of months. At the gig – more video shot at live gigs

Also
Live streaming – continuing to experiment with live streaming and move up to 720p streaming
Digital Pill availability as an iTunes podcast

2009 was a BIG year for the site with mainstream publicity and Digital Pill passing the 100K views mark.
As of today that figure is touching 140,000 views.

Thanks to
Phil Greenwood and Kim Lynch for their great work redesigning the site
and our supporters (links on the right)
the site’s subscribers
to everyone who passed on the word through facebook etc
to every one who contacted me with encouragement and constructive criticism
Garry Barker for writing the excellent article about this site in the Age
and to all the musicians who came and sat in my little podcast studio and shared their ideas and music
and were very gracious about my video direction

Finally
I will need to continue to find financial support to keep the work going
but that doesn’t detract from the fact
that Digital Pill is a labour of love . . .

Thanks

Leo Dale
Melbourne, Australia

click here - to add this post - to your social network