Future of OMN

Dear members of the Overtone Music Network,

overtone.cc lives through you - through your creativity, your ideas, and your aspirations. That’s why today I’d like to ask you directly:

What would you like to see for the future of overtone.cc?
Which ideas, features, or opportunities would you wish for? What do you need to connect more effectively, share your videos and music more easily, or continue growing as an artist?

Whether it’s a small suggestion or a big vision - every piece of feedback is valuable and very welcome. Your input will help guide the next steps thoughtfully and in the spirit of our community.

You can simply reply to this message or share your thoughts directly on the platform.

Thank you for being part of this network and for actively shaping it.

Kind regards,
Jens

Dear Jens,.

First of all, thank you very much for your long-standing voluntary commitment to the overtone scene!

The website has two target groups. I'll write down what these target groups might want:

1. Creators
2. Visitors

1. Creators
want to become visible with their art and their offerings in order to ultimately gain an audience and customers. Perhaps some also want to develop further through exchange. Creators need motivation to make the effort to upload interesting content.

2. Visitors
mainly want to be entertained; less often, they are specifically looking for offers: offers to listen to or learn overtone singing. Visitors need entertainment, have a short attention span, and want to quickly find what they are looking for.

The site originally grew out of the Who's Who that I set up on my website in the late 1990s. Then Steve Sklar joined with his forum. Then you set up overtone.cc, the first interactive and international database. Back then, in the early 2000s, there was a need for it because it was difficult to find out anything about the diversity of overtone singing in one place, and Google had only just come onto the market. But knowledge acquisition has since become obsolete.

My initial ideas
1. Jens, write to the creators once a month and remind them how well the site is doing. Most of them don't know that overtone.cc actually gets tens of thousands of clicks every month. Send them ideas for what they can post.
2. Collect data on what visitors are viewing and optimize the site accordingly. I suspect that they mainly watch videos. Overtone.cc has almost 2,000 videos.
3. I suspect that a kind of expert extract from YouTube could be interesting for visitors, video collections, video playlists. Possibly with a selection of meditative playlists, curiosities, etc. Advantage for visitors: They can find information about the creators immediately and don't have to search through YouTube – similar to IMDB for movies...
4. The design could be clearer. Fewer menu items, larger font, more white space, larger video thumbnails, focus on what visitors love—e.g., videos. It must be immediately clear what can be found on the site.
5. Is there a possibility to autimatically import newly posted YouTube-Videos from registrered Creators-Accounts?

Replies

Wolfgang Saus February 14, 2026 11:14

Dear Jens,.

First of all, thank you very much for your long-standing voluntary commitment to the overtone scene!

The website has two target groups. I'll write down what these target groups might want:

1. Creators
2. Visitors

1. Creators
want to become visible with their art and their offerings in order to ultimately gain an audience and customers. Perhaps some also want to develop further through exchange. Creators need motivation to make the effort to upload interesting content.

2. Visitors
mainly want to be entertained; less often, they are specifically looking for offers: offers to listen to or learn overtone singing. Visitors need entertainment, have a short attention span, and want to quickly find what they are looking for.

The site originally grew out of the Who's Who that I set up on my website in the late 1990s. Then Steve Sklar joined with his forum. Then you set up overtone.cc, the first interactive and international database. Back then, in the early 2000s, there was a need for it because it was difficult to find out anything about the diversity of overtone singing in one place, and Google had only just come onto the market. But knowledge acquisition has since become obsolete.

My initial ideas
1. Jens, write to the creators once a month and remind them how well the site is doing. Most of them don't know that overtone.cc actually gets tens of thousands of clicks every month. Send them ideas for what they can post.
2. Collect data on what visitors are viewing and optimize the site accordingly. I suspect that they mainly watch videos. Overtone.cc has almost 2,000 videos.
3. I suspect that a kind of expert extract from YouTube could be interesting for visitors, video collections, video playlists. Possibly with a selection of meditative playlists, curiosities, etc. Advantage for visitors: They can find information about the creators immediately and don't have to search through YouTube – similar to IMDB for movies...
4. The design could be clearer. Fewer menu items, larger font, more white space, larger video thumbnails, focus on what visitors love—e.g., videos. It must be immediately clear what can be found on the site.
5. Is there a possibility to autimatically import newly posted YouTube-Videos from registrered Creators-Accounts?
- Jens Mügge > Wolfgang Saus February 14, 2026 13:58
  
  Dear Wolfgang,
  
  thanks a lot for your sharing your ideas. I will try to evaluate, what is possible to realize. I will answer soon in detail.
  
  Jens

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