my intro ! name is Hero/SWAVE

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Hey ! Glad to be here in the community! My name is Hero, and i go by SWAVE as my producer name:)

I've been producing for 10 years now, and my favourite part of this job is creating music that uniquely conveys my worldview. Usually that means experimenting with/manipulating the sounds I use to more succinctly convey the granularity of my thoughts/emotions. Frequently, I create music inspired by colours/images/art, i love the creative liberty it gives me, and how it forces me to think differently about the sounds/fx/techniques i'm using! i'll attach some of my work below, for context, i took a boring picture of my coffee (lol), and used that to inspire the beat i went on to make afterwards ! As well as some more of my work that i'm particularly proud of:)

In terms of what I'm working on, my focus at the moment is monetising my craft, and helping people find their sound as a producer! Because of AI, and the impact it's had over the creative industry, i've felt as though we need to explore our creativity now more than ever, and nurture the humanity in our music through exploring WHY it is we gravitate toward sounds, our personal relation to sounds and how they convey a certain emotion, the purpose our music serves etc etc.

Where I'm stuck: I'm struggling to manage all the responsibilities that come with growing my income and balancing all parts of being a producer. Producing, inbound, outreach, filming videos, editing videos, calls, etc. It adds up to 12-14 hours a day (even by fixing the problem of task switching by assigning days to certain tasks), and of all the work I'm doing, I find it hard to know where I'm spending too little time/too much time and prioritising 'optimally' for lack of better words. So I guess in short, systemising it all and figuring out how to manage everything at once.

Any advice on how you guys have systemised it ?

https://www.youtube.com/@swavebeats

https://www.instagram.com/herodotmusic/

https://www.tiktok.com/@hero.vukk

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my intro ! name is Hero/SWAVE