Right to the heart

[Hink]

do you get a bigger kick from writing/composing/playing your music or getting compliments on your music.

For me it's all about playing and having fun, probably why I have so many unfinished songs

[pHz]

its all playtime for me ...

... but any comments on the few 'finished' things i get are nice too ... cant deny otherwise ...

slainte rob

[Hink]

compliments are the dessert imo, but yes always welcome...but I never play my songs after I finish them

[androidlove]

writing etc and compliments are all good. however, i prefer listening to my finished tunes. i wouldn't mind gettin get paid

[vurt]

its all about makin a noise and just letting go for me,no restrictions on what i should do.the compliments are nice tho but i prefer critical feedback if you get me
rather than just "cool,like it" or such id like some pointers as to where im going wrong/right
but essentially its just about twiddling knobs and hiding from cathode rays

[tetraplan]

Music needs to be made[1]. Playtime, compliments, they're all irrelevant.

Groet, Erik

[1]it's slightly different, but that's for another thread, I think.

[Sicklecell666]

I have the same attatchment for most of my stuff that I do for my toenail clippings. It's like shedding skin. Some tracks I'm fond of for a short while, & then they're cast off.

[Hink]

I have the same attatchment for most of my stuff that I do for my toenail clippings. It's like shedding skin. Some tracks I'm fond of for a short while, & then they're cast off.

that's kinda me too...tbh if you took a song like I Stepped Right in it and asked me to play it, I'd have to relearn it...not that it would take long (4 or 5 plays) I'd still have to brush up on it. Plight of a Dreamer I could play in my sleep however...

[Steven West]

Honestly, for me it's making the music. Everyone here and elsewhere has been so great with complimenting me and all, but it's not the same as when that 'magic happens' where a good drum beat gets a good bass line which gets a good melody with it and pads and laser fx and samples and.... holy crap! That's a good tune!
And like Sickle says, 9 out of 10 for me will be cast off in a month or so. But when I get 'that one' that really does something, is ahead of its time, haunts me and anyone who listens to it today or 5 years from now... That's the shit I'm working for.


But I know people that are just shit, have no talent or aspirations to create anything new and just live and dream about being on stage doing a Doors cover and having audience members politely clap afterwards.
That I will never get?

[dystonia_ek]

Who needs comments? If people like it, good, but I'd be doing it anyway even without an audience.

[mayan]

I'd be constructing my pieces with or without the community and the comments because - well, music and sound are the currents in which I swim. The comments are helpful, I've learned alot from the feedback. And OK, I'll also admit that - after years of playing or giving stuff to friends and getting blank stares or "that's interesting, nice weather, eh?" - it's nice to have found a community of folk who may have some appreciation for what comes out of the laboratory. OTOH, I've gotten to the point where I know when I'm hitting my own sweet spot as far as my pieces go, so approval or compliments are very nice but I've already addressed my own sense of accomlishment. Or something like that.

It's also interesting how a piece becomes something else - apart from me - once I've finished it. Kinda like what SickleCell was talking about.

[Sicklecell666]

I should say that I don't *completely* disregard my stuff when it's done; that would indicate that I don't enjoy sharing it, which I do, that's just a secondary aspect for it that isn't involved with the creative process at all. For me, it's kind of like art done in a therapy session. Intersting, original, but most importantly, liberating things can be created, but the enviornment is always a cathartic one; that's what I mean when I say cast off the old skin; I need to make room for purging the next psychic hematoma..

But just like an ingrown toenail, you pay special attention to it when you're cutting it out lest you rip your shit up..

[CypherOne]

I actually listen to my stuff. I enjoy the feedback I get from KVR but all too often I find I totally agree with the negative comments, and I get frustrated that I didn't notice the flaw in the first place. Subsequently I have some stuff that I listen to regularly and enjoy and other stuff that I cringe at.

[Hink]

I actually listen to my stuff. I enjoy the feedback I get from KVR but all too often I find I totally agree with the negative comments, and I get frustrated that I didn't notice the flaw in the first place. Subsequently I have some stuff that I listen to regularly and enjoy and other stuff that I cringe at.

when I look for comments I have a list, a punch list if you will...I might hear something I feel needs fixing, but I'm not sure if I dont like it or it isnt good, if you know what I mean...so generally I post music to share,I enjoy the positive and the negative and compare that to my feelings, my list and my vision for the piece...

An example, one of my songs Plight of a dreamer is mostly accoustic, one person commented that the string noise was too much and I should improve my technique..I thanked him for his comments..but I put a mic up near the neck to get the string sounds like that...so though he didn't like it, no one else ever mentioned it and it was part of my vision...so his comment could of been negative too many but too me it was insightful and helpful...even if I didn't agree with him...