alright, check it...
this is a terrific question. I work in a similiar
manner, i typically don't have a set idea when i sit
down to create a beat or a patch, but lately i have
woken up or just been sitting, drawing and an idea
will pop up based on whatever so i'll have to grab it
and run. I have a couple hundred hours of sounds i've
created but it needs tons of editing, the problem
comes when I sit down to do so, and i feel like
creating rather than editing, so tangents will take me
and i'll push toward a new track. Tons of new tracks,
none truly finished.It's actually kind of frightening
to finish a track, no?
But i've found that one excellent thing to do is not
be put off by 'people' which means
friends/girls/parents/etc... who would not be
comfortable hearing or commenting on the stuff you
create. Beat box when you feel the mood just don't get
into thinking you HAVE to sound a certain way. The
best stuff i've ever made has born through accidents,
'fuckups' and just wanking off with the synth or mic.
Depending on what you want to do with your music, the
best approach, imo, is to completely eschew other
folks opinions, even mates...everyone likes something
different, well sort of, and realistically, if folks
like what you do, fine, if not fine too. just make
sure it gets out to some sort of channel....
making art for money will often lead to mediocrity, if
that's the sole intent, unless you've got killer
connections.
alright, enough of the wankery, time to get back to
the salt mines..
pc
isaiah
another great thing is to collaborate with tons of
people.Force them to sit a sec and add ideas, if
they're trite or cliched, let the person know, you may
not keep the friend, but their life will change from
hearing examples and ideas that challenge mediocrity
and sheer laziness.
anyway, so where can we hear some of your tracks?
--- echomatrix <lackeya1@umbc.edu> wrote:
quoted 68 lines hi all..
> hi all..
>
> i've been on this list for a couple months, and
> there hasn't
> been much besides idle banter so far, maybe it's
> just been
> late or whatever...
>
> the microsound list has a lot of interesting
> discussion going
> on so maybe i can get something started here...
>
> i'm curious what my fellow artists are up to,
> creatively... i'm
> not trying to steal ideas b/c most of everything has
> already
> been done to an extent and now music (it seems to
> me, i
> could be wrong) is more about mixing elements in a
> new way
> or putting your own twist on things...
>
> a lot of my own work, especially my ambient stuff,
> is very sub-
> concious.. in that i'm not paying a whole lot of
> attention to what
> i'm doing or i don't have much of an idea of what i
> want when i
> sit down to make noise.. it just sort of happens on
> its own...
> recently though.. i've felt a need to have some sort
> of concept
> or at least a method to my madness...
> so, i've just spent the last several hours browsing
> though the
> rephlex, warp, and planet-mu sites just absorbing
> whatever
> is there.. reading about what other artists are
> about, what kind
> of influences they have.. just sort of exploring in
> some hope of
> finding my direction..
>
> so.. i guess i just want to get a discussion started
> on what sort
> of concepts/ideas/etc. that other artists are
> exploring... maybe
> something to bring this list out of the shitter,
> 'cause i'm a bit
> tired of seeing little more than show/tracks/ebay
> notices and
> war bullshit that just happens to have [idm] smacked
> on the front
> of the subject...
>
> later,
> alexx
>
> ______________________________
> echomatrix
>
> deranged ambient/electronica:
> www.mp3.com/echomatrix
>
> lackeya1@umbc.edu
>
>
>
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