The Music Student’s Survival Guide: Recent Episodes
Caleb Wilson
As an ex music student who now works In TV & film, we discuss ideas on how you can boost your income and increase your chances of success in the music industry along with smart & unconventional ways others have increased their freelance income.
Cellist Kathleen Wallfisch found herself getting into the TV & Film world and brought a few friends along for the journey. This later turned into founding her company, Music In Vision. Listen to her story and how you can get inviolved in the TV and film world as a musician. I highly recommend you sign up to the agency here: https://www.musicinvision.com/contact
One creative industry that is often considered hard to make a living in is art. As in brush to paper type of art. Similar to music, there is no real direct pathway or journey to being able to pay your bills doing the thing you love but our guest @lissie_art found her niche and is reaping the rewards! She's great and there's so much we can learn from her creative yet logical approach.
You're probably sitting on a few skills that were put the to back of the wardrobe when you went down the music route. There's so many unanswered questions around the music industry right now and you could be monetising off your own skills and passions right now. Let's not sit around and simply wait for gigs to start happening. Instead let's use our creativity to create new avenues of income for ourselves so that we don't have to be wiped out the next time the s%-+ hits the fan.
Hello and welcome to the music student’s survival guide. I’m your host Caleb Wilson and this is The podcast where we discuss how real life musicians can pay their rent doing the thing they love. We aim to cut the fluff and dig down to what’s working NOW.
Kicking this podcast off with an introduction what this podcast is and IS NOT. In future episodes we'll look at what other musos and self starters have done to be able to pay their rent with their craft and create an that means they can pick and choose what gigs and contracts they take on musically.