I heard an npr story about a duo that was making a living off of youtube videos, etc. Now, they weren't famous, but they were making a living... and it did seem a lot of their revenue came from covering pop songs, etc. so I don't think that I could replicate it. Further, they don't really perform much: their medium is recording and this types of videos. So, none of those things are things I'm really interested in, since I am in interested in experimental performance, for the most part.
However, I thought, I could sell in transit as an iphone app. I'm not sure how I feel about commercializing the whole product but mostly I want an audience, and selling it would help me recoup the costs of distributing it. The main problem with 'in transit' is that it would require over a gig of harddrive space on the iphone, unless I stream the audio from somewhere else. But if I was charging for the app, just a nominal amount, or using advertising revenue..would that help fund it? I could maybe, at least, offset some of the cost of distributing / providing it. Of course, I'd have to buy the license for the fmod library, but its actually quite reasonable for iphone apps: $500. Then, I'd have to look at how to stream... Well, I would think that the demand for this would be quite low, so I wouldn't have to buy a great plan unless it took off, and then I would. Of course, I kinda want to charge the $0.99 for it, for some reason.
Hmm, the downside to this is that I would think that once I finish it, it might seem like a let-down. I mean, haha, compared to having a performance... or maybe finding a festival, etc. that would be associated with it. But, I could possibly get press since its about the NYC subway. We see.
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