Sweating Petty Things (But Not Petting Sweaty Things)

December 20, 2011
I'm STILL stuck! Here's the dilemma - I wanted to call the company ♭Sound - as in be sound but 'b Sound', if that makes sense. I had to decide whether to brand it beSound or bSound, as you can see the latter looks better. But...I can get a free .co.uk domain for a year and bsound.co.uk is taken, besound.co.uk was available - I can buy bsound.org but it means upgrading the web package which I'd have to do anyway if it was still going in a year. But is it bad business sense to buy stuff you may not need if it isn't a success?

I wanted ♭Sound because the musical 'flat' symbol looks good. Though someone said it may blur the boundary between sound art and music and confuse my client base on the kind of work I do. So I've been looking at phonetic symbols, here's a few choices: Sound e̽ Sound ëSound β̞Sound β̞Sound β̞ëSound β̞Sound. It looks better without the 'e' right? I'm not sure if my judgement is clouded by the fact I can have the 'e' but my choices are limited without it - therefore I want it more without? I'd have to delete and re set up accounts in flickr, twitter and audioboo if I got it wrong and decided later down the line that 'e' looks good after all.

I know what Sesame Street would say...
 

What next?

December 13, 2011
Ok, so most of the site and branding is done - I still haven't finished my business plan, I thought it would be easier to write with less information to go in it like; cash flow forecasts, etc.. but it turns out it's harder. All the stuff that needs to go in is the laborious, trivial information - like the SWOT analysis. I say that because I Hate doing SWOT analysis! There's no fancy colourful pie chart conversion at the end its just dull. And disheartening, picking through all the stuff that...
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The Beginning

December 8, 2011
The idea for this project came after a number of twists and turns that lead to encounters over the past 12 months. The last of which was a course on Business Planning - I had three idea's, of which this was one. The other two had nothing to do with art or sound at all, but seemed a lot more viable in terms of cashflow. But my heart wasn't in them.
 
Whilst arts organisations have shown interest in my developing sound art within Bradford, the niche market, the cuts to funding and the lack of kno...
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