Making music and videos while I travel the world!
Hello Steemit Family, I'm stoked to be a part of this community and share my travels and my music with you.
Well, I'll go ahead and introduce myself.
My name is Mike and I make royalty free music for YouTube vloggers and other visual media while I travel. I also try my best at photography and videography, "try my best."
About 10 years ago, around the same time I fell in love with traveling I also fell in love with making music. For the last 8 years I kept these passions separate, but just recently I discovered I could merge these 2 passions....
Here's one of my mobile studio locations, Hoi An, Vietnam. As you can see this is a very relaxing and quiet place to work, and I paid around $20 a night. I booked this place on AirBnB, here is the link to the specific rental: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/19021488
For me, it all started when I was binge-watching a YouTube Channel called "Sailing SV Delos," they had about 50 episodes at this time. Sailing SV Delos is a vlog about a group of friends who live on their sailboat and sail around the world, pretty sweet lifestyle! After binge watching I realized my music would fit perfectly in their episodes. So I contacted them on Facebook, and they immediately started using my music!
Years before I tried too many times to submit my music to TV shows with not much luck, so this process of contacting YouTube vloggers was just too easy and fun! Their viewers started asking about the music they were hearing in their episodes, and so Sailing SV Delos then started including a link in their video description leading to my music on SoundCloud. Their viewers then flooded into my website, and my plays doubled, tripled, quadrupled and then some! People even started to BUY my albums, which before was VERY rare.
So to me this process was a success, I then started searching out other sailing vlogs to send my music: Sailing La Vagabonde, LuckyFish Got Away, Nautical Dream, Gone with the Wynns, and many more! All of them of course started using my music and including my link.
After I ran out of cool sailing vlogs to send my music to, I then started searching out just regular ol' travel vloggers: Erik Conover, Nicole Eddy, @theLifeofJord, @KaraandNate, Gabriel Traveler and many more have used my music! These new travel vloggers I discovered really inspired and motivated me to travel more and now I watch their videos regularly! I started buying the same gear that they travel with, I traveled to the same destinations that they traveled to and now I feel like I am a part of the travel blogging community, and it felt cool! I had just merged 2 of my main passions into 1!
This what I travel with to make music and videos:
I'll do a separate blog about the gear I use and travel with very soon, then link it here.
My main website: https://www.tatonomusic.com/
My Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tatono
My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TatonoMusic/
My Spotify Artist page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/67NABDFE9ktVyBPbBRPzBS
Here is an example of Sailing SV Delos using my music:
And a video I made with my music:
Thanks for reading and I'm looking forward to getting to know some fellow Steemers!
Great intro! It would be nice to add somewhere on yt, for example in video description, link to your steemit profile, just to verify account, also try posting some freshly made stuff! I wish you luck, followed (:
Thanks for advice my friend! Followed!
Hello, welcome and enjoy it! Follow me if you want!
Cool, thanks! I followed ya. :)
Welcome to steemit tatonomusic! just express yourself and the things that you enjoy and you will do fine here.
Sweet! Thanks for the advice, I am fairly new to this.
Welcome on board. Guys you have to check his music
Thanks again man! :)
Hey whats up man, welcome to steemit. Cool chill music. I'm also a daw musician. Following you now and I look forward to your posts.
Hey, thanks man! I'll check out your music. I use mainly Logic Pro, what about you?
Cool, I gotta learn logic pro.
I use audacity and reason :)
Awesome Michael! Cant wait to hear more music of you and we hope to meet you again on the road!!
Thanks Marcel!
Hi there @tatonomusic, seems to me you do electronica with your mini synthesizer? You make big-beat or lounge chill-out?
Groove on!
Hey! It's actually a standard sized 25 key MIDI controller, not a mini synthesizer. All my synthesizer instruments are in software form. I would say my music is closer to lounge chill-out.
Silly me, I used my 90s mindset to perceive your setup to be similar to what I had in the late 90s. Please excuse my ignorance.
I learned a bit of digital music making in late 90s. Computers were slow and could hang if too many software effects were loaded, so hardware was preferable more back then.
I imitated groove armada, fatboy slim, lemon jelly and the likes to make amateur pieces for my own enjoyment. And my tiny setup was
entry-level mac G4
entry-level korg synthesizer
sherman filter
Good to know powerful computers and software can save all the hassle now, so you can make music anytime anywhere.
Hi! i love your story and your music! I'm a sailor and i was trying to find people who blog about sailing to connect with... that's how i found you. I think your music is amazing and you will do great here.
Also check out @soundwavesphoton, His a cool cat, who also makes digital dope music.
Thank you! I plan on sailing one day....
I am already following @soundwavesphoton, what a coincidence! :)
Awesome! steemit is a small world :) If you are also into sailing then please follow me, I'm currently working on getting all the sailors on Steemit to become a real group to support each other and new sailors joining the community so that we can start blogging about sailing in a manner that really brings value. This is something i just started (which is also how i found you). so i hope you'll be part of it.
you have very cool equipment
Sweet~ I'm new here too and you just blew up the intro! Can't wait to follow more of your work, cheers!