Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Mode Admin <mode@moderecords.com>]

Hi Andrew & Silencers

I'm not sure what your comment means "how well it sounds as a download"? Honestly, I have not bought anything from Bandcamp and I have someone working on posting the Mode releases there for me — I still have to proofread what has been already posted. My understanding is that Bandcamp gives you multiple audio choices when you purchase. Mode supplied them always with CD quality files, you should be able to pick that, FLAC, MP3 and perhaps some others. Is that not the case?

For the time being, one can only get CD quality downloads of Mode from Bandcamp or directly from Mode (simply send an email with your wants if ordering from Mode along with how you wish to pay). All the other DSPs (Digital Service Providers) have Mode as MP3s.

Now to answer your question: Mode gets the most income with direct purchases. Bandcamp is the next best thing, but they do take a fee, as does Paypal. Any download or streaming from any other  provider yields us much less, and in the case of streaming from other providers it is a mere $0.003 per stream. But really, any sale is helpful these days except that streaming really does not help much at all.

As you may know, Mode is in the midst of a Gofundme campaign to modernize our website and bring Mode fully up to date digitally. The Bandcamp label site for Mode is happening because of the Gofundme. The newly revised Mode website will have a shopping cart (finally!), a secure server and you will be able  to purchase not only physical product, but also CD quality downloads and eventually stream directly from Mode all via the shopping cart. We are projecting the website launch by beginning of April, but it is a huge job as the old website is so old it has to be entirely recreated.

You can find the Gofundme campaign at
gf.me/u/w5dzzm
any size donation is welcome, needed, appreciated.

BTW, the other big plus is that the Bielecki Foundation has offered a matching grant of $10,000 if Mode hits its goal by March 31st. We still have $2,480 to go!

Please excuse the campaign message.

Many thanks
Brian

On 3/20/20 7:02 PM, AHF wrote:

I just bought Dream by Sergio Sorrentino to see how this works and how well it sounds as a download.

Brian, is this a good way to support Mode, or will you do better purchasing by other means? What about buying a CD: good to do via Bandcamp, or better direct or some other way?

Andrew Culver

On Mar 20, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Mode Admin <mode@moderecords.com> wrote:

Thank you, Rod, for your nice email and recommendation!

Brian Brandt Mode Records

On 3/20/20 5:22 PM, Rod Stasick wrote:

"Bandcamp Will Forfeit Its Share Of Sales Friday, Urges Direct Support Of Musicians”

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817740137/bandcamp-will-forfeit-its-share-of-sales-this-friday
…so, if you’ve been looking at that particular Mode recording in the John Cage Edition,

then today would be a good day to jump on it. There’s a couple hundred wonderful things

to consider there, so just a heads-up!

https://moderecords.bandcamp.com/
If you go to the Bandcamp homepage and look at the  “selling right now” ticker at the bottom, it is FLYING by now -  it’s pretty incredible. Usually, you’ll see a couple of things will sell,  then a pause, then maybe one or two more, then a pause, etc, but this is just going so fast that you can't make out what’s being sold,  so this is a good thing to see.
https://bandcamp.com/

Anyway, fill your days with music and creative sound

and things will be easier to deal with methinks.

best to all,

R

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