[HN Gopher] Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician
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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)
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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