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Mixposure: a short article about it's effect on a life
Mixposure was an online music database. It ceased to be some time ago. For a few years I would upload the new work I'd done (2005-2007) and recieve bouquets or occassional raspberries. It was like Brigadoon.
So real at the time but now I hardly know who of the people I interacted with there were real and who were made up
identities. It became very scary, wondering if someone down the road was pretending to be someone else in Bulgaria or California to catch you out for a laugh.Or even out to do you some psychological damage.It was the best of times and the worst as the quote goes.
The positives were that I learned lots about recording, the way that musicians operated and I did get a lot of support. Work with Marijan for instance would probably never have happened without it. Work with anyone I suppose, because it was by being bullied and cajoaled and flattered by Mixposure artists into singing live again that I met the proprietor of Olive Studios. I'd never have written Raven. Doesn't bear thinking about.
As a result of experiencing it I'm stronger and wiser and a better musician. Actually when I first joined I wasn't even making music at all, merely uploading my 1988 professionally produced and superbly mastered first and only album, to the bewilderment of all these guys who were recording their own music and wondering what the hell I was doing. I was green as grass and had no idea that they were watching new uploads daily. I thought I'd found a shelf to put my work on. It seems it was a shop window. I was soon taught to be more respectful. Very quickly I began watching the daily uploads myself, and experienced a culture shock of many styles of music that I had never listened to before, all made by people (or their alter- egos) at home. Some days i reviewed every single uploaded track. By hook and crook I was dragged into the 21st century and , yes, on balance it was a good thing. A very good thing, because I learned how to stand my corner as far as my work was concerned.
Was it a real online music database or a group of people incognito with a mission to teach people like me about how to burst through the age thing and carry on being creative? I've had to accept that I'll never know now. All I can say is that Mixposure gave me a terrifying insight into myself that caused me to do some very extreme things...and survive them. For that there aren't enough thanks I can give. I think I did go round the bend and back a few times, but I'm glad I did. Would I advise anyone else to plunge themselves into trial by forum, fall in love with people that they've never met and argue with what might be an invention of someone's imagination, and the inevitable pain, embarrassment and self-discovery that it causes? Answer: I learned also that advice is best kept to what level EQ should be or where to pan a vocal. People have their own life journeys and decisions to make, and even that advice is no substitute for training your own ears. As for the rest, well most of us have a hard enough time being real in the day to day, how can we possibly be realer in virtual reality? Hmmmm. Confusion goes with the territory. RIP Mixposure Gill Whitehurst a.k.a. Morgenblume
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