Colin O’Donohoe
Artistic Director for
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What is my sound??
For the length of my career as a musician I’ve always had projects and interests in various styles of music. I enjoy classical music and have written for some amazingly talented cellists. I love conducting and leading Pangean Orchestra (www.pangeanorchestra.com) which is a phenomenal group of world musicians. I’ve written country songs, pop songs, electronica, rock songs, jazz songs, choir stuff, etc etc.
I don’t want to apologize for liking popular styles to my classical fans, and don’t want to frustrate fans of my modern albums with my classical things.
My struggle in all this is how or what am I as a product. It is hard to ask people to follow me if my music isn’t predictable to my fans. If my fans love my classical or world stuff but hate my electronic stuff than it can be fatiguing for them to follow me. They don’t know when I’m writing what they like or when I’m experimenting with my turntable again.
Am I my own label? Am I 5 musician/bands trapped in one mind? Should I make a band for each persona?
Does anyone else face this dilemma? I’m sure you do. I’d love to hear the thoughts of my readers as to their ideas on how to tackle this issue. I’m going to continue writing music and performing music in many styles so I need to find the best way to let the part of my audience that likes that style know when I’ve got new stuff for them while not wasting their time having ‘em check out my new classical thing when that is not their bag at all.
So, any thoughts or suggestions? Feel free to post or email me.
Thanks for reading!
Colin
Music by Colin O’Donohoe can be found at
