Sup y'all, I'm releasing a track onto Soundcloud to time with a bunch of events I've got coming up. Really could use some likes comments/hatred whatever ya got really! Thanks as always for the elevation, getting these tracks past the algorithm is crazy business with all the gen ai fuckery going on. https://soundcloud.com/sunshineoverdrive/abundance

Taking a leap of faith. Taking some time to write down a list of people to work with. When I was in my early 20’s and started to get gigs, it was because I started doing a few new things. I added an hour per day of sitting on the couch and going through my phonebook, rolodex, scraps of paper and business cards and calling and texting people. I also emailed people, but I mostly remember sitting on the couch of my house in Seattle and dialing up the phone numbers from my box of papers and business cards. I had a shoebox and that was my business. I realized, the more I did this, the more gigs I started getting. This is how my “music business” started. No social media, no videos, no emails, not anything but a shoebox filled with phone numbers of people I met throughout life. Now, there’s so many other factors leading up to this, like meeting these people at shows, in school, at studios, on MySpace, emailing through contact info on websites, cold calls, friends of friends, old and new contacts, and business cards I kept along the way. I still do a similar thing to this day. I set aside an hour multiple times per week and get on the phones. I feel if anyone can do this, it can greatly increase your odds of getting more gigs, meeting more people and doing more recordings and collaborations. Leading to more music opportunities, gigs and overall music business career. I had no business experience, no sales training, nothing. Just a producer / drummer and decent all around guy, calling up a dude for a music endeavor. Or, just to reconnect, stay connected, and those calls lead to many musical opportunities. Gigs come from phone calls. Gigs lead to more gigs. More gigs can lead to better gigs. Better gigs can lead to better paying gigs, and it goes from there. And of course, if you don’t know this, I have to say it. Before picking up the phone, you better be fu*king good at your craft. You better put in the 10,000 hours on your instrument and DAW. Full stop, you have to be in demand with your skills. Break down the door with your skills.

Hi guys! My name's Zack Plauché. I'm a music artist from Mississippi now living in Portugal. Also I'm good friends with Echoes Embrace from this group. (Note: If you want to skip all the storyline check my 2 questions at the bottom) I'm not great at thinking or categorizing into genres and prefer to just make music and see what comes out as long as it sounds good. Acoustic, Electronic, Wrap, Love, Anger, Zen, etc. dubstep country I don't really care as long as it sounds good. I'm all in on growing my music career for the past 7 months starting from street performing to getting some gigs but now I'm trying to grow dramatically in my career and skill and output in music production. My DAW is FL Studio. I'm open to switching to Abelton but 1. That shits expensive 2. I'm kinda not great at the whole pirate life thing and don't officially want to open myself to legal vulnerability. Either way, I'm pretty sure I made a few thousand euros already at least from busking. I play guitar, piano, and sing. I still take singing lessons weekly for now and take piano lessons sometimes. I'm heavily ready to jump into and do whatever it takes to make this work. Quite frankly, of all of my skills, music is the one I enjoy the most and have the most talent for and can see myself becoming one of the best at. It's always been a natural thing to me like breathing. Sure, was and still is lots of room for refinement and capturing my lightning in a bottle, but that's why I'm here haha. **MY GOAL**: My end goal, like many of us I would imagine, is to be a successful artist. Not just playing covers and DJing other people's songs, but really making my own music and people becoming fans of my art. I want to be a really financially successful and loved music artist. I want people to know me and my music, have super well paying gigs, and live a fulfilled life making and playing music. In practice at the moment, I do need gigs and want to sustain myself with high paying gigs and DJ sets.

What if you could take a single image and turn it into a singing performer? That is no longer just an idea. With AI Image To Singing technology, a static photo can be transformed into a video where the person, character, or animal appears to sing along with an audio track. I recently experimented with this technology using Zoice, and the results made me think about a much bigger question. Is AI Image To Singing the future of music content, or could it eventually replace musicians? -----------------How AI Image To Singing Works------------- The concept is surprisingly simple. You start with an image. It could be a person, cartoon character, animal, avatar, or fictional character. Then you provide singing audio. The AI analyzes the image and audio and generates facial movements that match the vocals. The basic process looks like this: Image → Singing Audio → AI Animation → Lip Sync → Singing Video What used to require filming, animation, and editing can now be created with an AI workflow. -------------------My Experiment With Zoice---------------- I wanted to see how practical this technology actually was. I used Zoice to experiment with different images and singing audio. I tested characters and animal-style images to see how well they could be transformed into singing performers. The results were surprisingly entertaining. The most important thing I noticed was that the quality of the original image matters a lot. A clear image with a visible face generally produced a much better result. The AI then handled the animation and synchronization. Why This Technology Is Exciting The biggest advantage is accessibility. You don't need to be a professional animator. You don't need a recording studio. You don't need to hire actors for every video. A creator can start with a simple image and turn it into an entertaining singing video. This opens up possibilities for: - AI music videos - Virtual singers - Animated characters - Singing animals - Virtual influencers - Social media content - Brand mascots - Personalized music videos

I’ve been doing nothing but working the day job and writing music. Wanted to share my latest with everyone. https://on.soundcloud.com/n82QFBLnnighgfSoK4