My Music Sucks

[jancivil]

The computer is the great and the great evil for me. Mostly because it's the center of my universe. I work on it play on it get everything I need to get by through it.
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One thing I found is that If I listened to less of other peoples music I could concentrate on my own. Even times where I dont have access to an instrument. Like Jan in the shower. When I'm driving or walking somewhere I don't have a radio/mp3 player going. I found If I could hold a musical idea in my head and just "think" my way through it I had to practice it less. Singing doesn't hurt either. (well it doesn't hurt me, listeners disagree)

the computer is everything to me, I wouldn't want to return to life without it. but it was right for me to have a path without it all those years. 10 years ago I didn't make any music but I was in the library all day.

I am working all the time on my music, even if not directly applying it. I can't listen to a lot of music, there isn't any room for it in my head. Kind of OCD. Occasionally I'll encounter something that's incredibly inspiring {eg., Marco Oppedisano, which I would not know about with no computer}.

[jancivil]

When I try to sit down with the intention to write a song, I get nothing. Unless I try to force a song out, and that's exactly what it will sound like, forced.

I don't go to the computer without a compelling idea, and when I do open a project I have a lot of ideas, from thinking about them, a subtle process I couldn't begin to put into words.

It's been said that artists long for limitations and I've found this to be true on a subconscious level. With every new technological advance, we tend to become solely reliant on that technology and less on our creativity within. Learning how to use software, practically becoming engineers. Where as, before, we worked from the inside out. Cultivating an idea, then finding a means in which to attain it. Try the latter process, not the former.

that's very Apt! I narrow a project down at the outset by choosing the 'palette', the instrumentation. imagining the sound world to a point where I'm really rearing to go.

I feel I was born at the rigbt time for who I am, there were no technological crutches in the day. Be very wary of a machine to replace your brain to do a task. Develop your brain like a muscle. Don't use crutches before you can walk.