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Updated 2-24-2009
Greetings,
For those wishing to simply contact Ambient Visions please see the e-mail address in the left column and simply click there to drop me a line.
For those wishing to have their music reviewed by Ambient Visions this is where the change in the contact form comes in. Over the last 10 years of running Ambient Visions I have come to have the opinion that reviews are not as effective as they once were in exposing your music to a broader audience. Not to say that reviews are a bad thing its just that with the availability of your music on the web it would be much simpler to point a reader toward these sources and have them listen to you music and make up their own mind. I want to have as little impact as possible on the artist's marketing and promotional budget so from this point out Ambient Visions will still accept promotional material but only in electronic format or as download links (preferable to sending the files straight to me) so that the impact to the artist will be $0 monetarily speaking and the only thing it will cost the artist is the time to send me the links or write an e-mail. E-mails can be sent to the address in the left hand column and once I have had a chance to listen to your music I will decide whether or not it will be featured in some way on Ambient Visions. Pretty much what a reviewer does when they receive physical CD's in the mail. They listen to them and decide which ones are worth their time in writing a review and the others just end up sitting in the reviewers stacks gathering dust.
As I said earlier I am of the mind that things have changed in regards to reviews and how an artist's music might best be exposed to listeners on the web. That's where the other aspects of Ambient Visions comes in. After the initial contact from the artist and the exchange of dowload links for the promotional materials and assuming that I am still enthusiastic about going to the next step I would like to talk to you about how Ambient Visions might help bring your music to the attention of the readers of AV through interviews, through press releases, through new release postings and through posting links back to MySpace pages or to pages that have samples or full tracks of your music. In this tough economy it is far better to expend some time and send out links than to send out copies of your CD that may or may not yield a review. Sending me links to your promotional material and your latest CD will first alert me that you have a new CD out and second if I really like it then it will motivate me to make sure that my readers find out about it as well and I think after all that is the goal of contacting a publication like Ambient Visions in the first place.
I am looking forward to hearing from the many artists out there who I don't know about but who I would be more than happy to make their aquaintances in 2009 and perhaps between us we can bring great new music to the readers of Ambient Visions one artist at a time. Take care.
Michael Foster, editor
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