[HN Gopher] Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician ___________________________________________________________________ Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician Author : larve Score : 38 points Date : 2022-11-10 12:17 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (the.scapegoat.dev) (TXT) w3m dump (the.scapegoat.dev) | jedimastert wrote: | Practicing being creative is such an important thing for anyone | who creates. It's like practicing improvising. | tunesmith wrote: | Going through something somewhat similar, here's where I got hung | up: too many ideas that had "potential". I found it really | difficult to figure out where to draw the line that would keep me | moving forward with material generation, as opposed to reviewing | old material. | | Come to think of it, I had the same problem with my Anki decks. I | created too many cards and eventually fell too far behind. | | It's too bad because I really enjoy recording all my rehearsals. | raydiatian wrote: | I remember seeing a Brian Eno interview where he lambasted non- | session musicians as "(every one of them) thinking that they've | got a Darkside Of The Moon in them, but then they just go into | the studio and get lost in playing with Synth patches" | raydiatian wrote: | Everything in music is essentially a remix at its core. The | Noisia guys had a similar philosophy of "resample and bounce | often". Always be making bleeps and bloops, then reprocess them, | then reprocess them again, as many ways as possible without | turning harmonic information into noise (from a band named | Noisia, ikr), until you have something that feels novel and | rhythmic. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-11-11 23:00 UTC)