New Aquarius podcast music

Today I began recording what I believe will be the theme music for the New Aquarius podcast. Podcasting is an interesting phenomenon. The idea is to create sound files of your “show,” upload them to a server and make them available for subscription. Your subscribers run a program that will check for new episodes and download them whenever they’re online. I can’t do that, because my computer is part of my studio and I need all the processing power I can get. I can’t have my computer doing work “in the background.”

I did some primitive internet broadcasting years ago, when all I had was a website to promote my music. No one had Mp3 players in those days. I uploaded my spoken word files to be streamed in Real. Remember Real? I wouldn’t recommend using it now, because their player essentially takes over your machine. I loved doing it, but most people were using dialup and fewer knew how to set up to receive streaming media.

Since I do voiceover work for Sirius Satellite Radio in New York, it makes sense that I’d create a podcast for New Aquarius. Ever heard me? I’m the voice of channel 17. They play jam rock. I talk like a hippie and read the copy. It isn’t authentic hippie anything. In fact, it’s exactly what you’d expect a company that sells stock to think is appealing to hippies. Whatever. I enjoy doing it. I’ve never heard the finished product though. I’m an XM subscriber.

I’m lucky in that I can create my own music for the podcast, or any other content I need for that matter. There’s this website that a friend of mine uses for his podcast. It’s what they call the “podsafe music network.” What that means is that independent recording artists upload their music for you to use in your podcasts for free. Podsafe means that no one will come after you for performance royalty bread. On the surface, it sounds good. Podcasters get music they don’t have to pay for and the musicians get exposure. Exposure is dangled like a poison carrot before anyone who’s ever made music. It’s rumored to be the key to success. I wonder where it stops though. Somebody uses your music for free and it catches on. Does that mean that it’s out there for free and you never get anything for it? Don’t know how I feel about that. But I don’t have to worry. Like I said, I can produce my own.

Perhaps with a podcast, I’ll be able to spread New Aquarian ideas a little more personally. The rough part of New Aquarius right now is that it’s just me. It would work better with more people. I hope to locate like-minded individuals that can make a contribution to this message of personal awareness in our time using their particular talents. I’m not the only one confused by our culture at times. I’m certainly not the only one who wants to live deliberately. But most of all, I don’t have all of the good ideas.