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Romel Shearer

@romel-ds.bsky.social

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cellist • music curator • arts manager • founder of Circle of Fifths, a platform dedicated to the development of the performing arts in The Bahamas | circle-of-5ths.com

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I can list off a number of contemporary Bahamian visual artists who not only have pushed the boundaries of their form through experimentation, but who also investigate/challenge notions of tropicality and the picturesque.

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Does anyone have any recommendations for good grad school programs in arts administration/management and policy?

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Might need to shake things up and not allow covers for a while… 😬

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Hans DeKline @hansdekline.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

4. Spotify fired 51% of their curatorial team & replaced predominately with AI. 5. The CEO, Daniel Ek has made $345 mil since July 2023 selling shares -which makes him the world's most streamed artist (115 billion streams) if he were one. He makes 2.5 billion X the salary of the average musician.

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Hans DeKline @hansdekline.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My Spotify 2024 Wrapped: 1. Spotify demonetized 80% of songs on the platform. If your song streams less than a 1000, you're paid nada. 2. Spotify still only pays $0.003 per stream (assuming you're over 1000 streams) 3. 8000 monthly streams are required to make $15/hour cont👇

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Curating involves having to market the entertainment in a way that speaks to its value and highlights what makes that artist unique.

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thinking of starting a personal daily exercise where I post a rec. or review of a song/piece that I've recently discovered + write a blurb (w/i the character limit). Music I usually gravitate to incl. classical, indie, alternative, funk, house, and contemp. jazz. I'd love to receive your recs too!

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I think often about music student matriculation rates and specifically how many young string players we're converting to long-time musicians each year.

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This year has been quite enriching musically, as I formed a piano trio with two colleagues and am currently preparing the Frühling A minor Clarinet Trio for a Christmas concert I'm curating at The Island House.

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Romel Shearer @romel-ds.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As a curator, I hear Bahamian musicians often complain that local live audiences only care to listen to what’s familiar or the Top 40, but I’d say that the reason our audiences are at times intolerant of anything that verges out of the mainstream is that we as artists haven’t stuck to our guns.

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