vurt wrote:luckily i only work in a nuclear facility so if i do anything wrong worse hing that could happeen is meltdown
.. now please dont tell us that you´re a low-level employee in Sector 7G!!
putte
How Do You Find the Time?
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- TopModernGeezer
- 2679 posts since 14 Mar, 2001 from Stuttgart, Germany
.. now please dont tell us that you´re a low-level employee in Sector 7G!!putte
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- addled muppet weed
- 111283 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
no my name isnt homer its lenny
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- addled muppet weed
- 111283 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
no my name isnt homer its lenny
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- KVRist
- 426 posts since 23 Apr, 2004 from the people's republic of popistan
funny thing, when i left school i worked here for 6 months.
http://www.gkn-gmbh.de/navig/f3.htm
i was young and needed the money
last year i did the monsanto stuff
what will happen next?
maybe a website for the bush election campaign...
it gets worse and worse.
http://www.gkn-gmbh.de/navig/f3.htm
i was young and needed the money
last year i did the monsanto stuff
what will happen next?
maybe a website for the bush election campaign...
it gets worse and worse.
My Distortion is Analogue...
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- KVRAF
- 1789 posts since 17 Mar, 2004 from Bretagne, the west of France
I have found a trick to have more time for music :screamingFit wrote:I guess I'm like most on here and that creating music is a hobby and not a profession. Being a hobby, how do you find time to actually sit down and do it? Apart from the daily work grind, there's responsibilities of family/significant others, learning, other hobbies, keeping a tidy space, entertainment, community involvement, friends and sleep! There ain't enough time in a day or even a month to play around and make music (at least for me)!
I have a fairly decent job which has afforded me to assemble a pretty decent studio - that just sits there collecting dust! I've even taken vacations from work to finally "get serious" and you know what? Nothing happens. I sit at the screen - uninspired and bored and move on to other menial activities. That happens anytime I have free time and sit down to "do something".
I know I can't be alone in this struggle for not enough time so how do you all cope? I'm desperately looking for some guidance!
Thanks,
s'fit
I stopped watching television !
Rony
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- addled muppet weed
- 111283 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
yeah tv is shit ignore it
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- KVRist
- 462 posts since 3 Feb, 2004 from HONG KONG
Seriously. My tv has been in the closet for 2 months. I've been very productive musically.vurt wrote:yeah tv is shit ignore it
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- addled muppet weed
- 111283 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
i watch about twenty minutes of whatevers on when i get in from work while i eat something
but its sound down and music on
but its sound down and music on
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- KVRian
- 1024 posts since 8 Mar, 2004 from Network 23
Everyone's advice on this topic is spot-on in my experience. Don't seek the muse, let her come to you.
I once wrote a very 50's movie piece and I knew it was incomplete. Don't get me wrong, it had all the attributes of a good song - it just needed "something else". I thrashed at it for a few days to no avail, gave up, and archived it. 18 months later, I felt inspired one night and wrote a little bit - took about two hours to flesh it out. I suddenly realized this was the "something else" the other song was waiting for. I put in some strings to modulate from the first song to the second (they were in two way different keys) and the result was very nice. I consider it one of my better efforts, if not the best.
Recently, I was really inspired by working on sound design for the M42 Nebula. I came up with a great patch (in my mind anyway!) that lent itself really nicely to an idea I had running around my head. I laid down a working track and put some stuff around it. So far so good, right? Problem was, I knew the piece needed more, but I couldn't figure out what that "more" was. I parked it. Then String Theory was released, and that had some of the "stuff" I was looking for, so I worked with it a bit in the context of the piece. mwerrr...it still needed something. Parked it again. I feed the meter once in awhile so it doesn't get towed away. I'll come back to it - I have some ideas percolating...slowly. In the meantime, I've missed two monthly song contests that I had originally planned to enter. You know what? I don't care!
So don't worry about not getting into the right mood or frame of mind, or about time or anything else. As silly as this sounds, it'll be the right time when it is the right time, and believe me, you'll know it when it happens. Don't force it.
I once wrote a very 50's movie piece and I knew it was incomplete. Don't get me wrong, it had all the attributes of a good song - it just needed "something else". I thrashed at it for a few days to no avail, gave up, and archived it. 18 months later, I felt inspired one night and wrote a little bit - took about two hours to flesh it out. I suddenly realized this was the "something else" the other song was waiting for. I put in some strings to modulate from the first song to the second (they were in two way different keys) and the result was very nice. I consider it one of my better efforts, if not the best.
Recently, I was really inspired by working on sound design for the M42 Nebula. I came up with a great patch (in my mind anyway!) that lent itself really nicely to an idea I had running around my head. I laid down a working track and put some stuff around it. So far so good, right? Problem was, I knew the piece needed more, but I couldn't figure out what that "more" was. I parked it. Then String Theory was released, and that had some of the "stuff" I was looking for, so I worked with it a bit in the context of the piece. mwerrr...it still needed something. Parked it again.
I feed the meter once in awhile so it doesn't get towed away. I'll come back to it - I have some ideas percolating...slowly. In the meantime, I've missed two monthly song contests that I had originally planned to enter. You know what? I don't care!So don't worry about not getting into the right mood or frame of mind, or about time or anything else. As silly as this sounds, it'll be the right time when it is the right time, and believe me, you'll know it when it happens. Don't force it.
We shall see orchestral machines with a thousand new sounds, with thousands of new euphonies, as opposed to the present day's simple sounds of strings, brass, and woodwinds. -- George Antheil, circa 1925 ---
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- KVRAF
- 1789 posts since 17 Mar, 2004 from Bretagne, the west of France
Seriously, your mother never told you that you shouldn't watch tv when eatingvurt wrote:i watch about twenty minutes of whatevers on when i get in from work while i eat something
but its sound down and music on
Rony
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I should get a get
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- addled muppet weed
- 111283 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
i dont live with me mum now
i can do what i want
i can do what i want
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- KVRer
- 19 posts since 14 Jul, 2002 from İstanbul
i try to play the instruments that i have in any silent moment that i have. be it a classical, acoustic, bass or a synth... treat your toys as "instruments". that's where the music comes out. even your voice. all linked to your imagination. you'll see. the magic happens.
instruments, treat them just like your hands. you use them.
instruments, treat them just like your hands. you use them.
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- Banned
- 6127 posts since 1 Apr, 2004 from Et in Arcadia Ego
my solution was to get my boss to upgrade his computer for 'graphic' reasons so now I have a 3.2 ghz at work that has Komplete 2, Orion Plat 5.5, eXT, & a small army of soft synths that I fart around with constantly when I should be tattooing & making money to upgrade my hardware..
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- KVRAF
- 10597 posts since 13 Jun, 2004 from Alberto Balsam
All you guys seem to have the same problem: Your Jobs
Just be unemployed and live at home like me. You get all the time you want to do anything.
Just be unemployed and live at home like me. You get all the time you want to do anything.
Sickle, however, geniously found a solution where he/she can have a job and the time to make music at the same time, which i aplaud him/her for.sickle666 wrote:my solution was to get my boss to upgrade his computer for 'graphic' reasons so now I have a 3.2 ghz at work that has Komplete 2, Orion Plat 5.5, eXT, & a small army of soft synths that I fart around with constantly when I should be tattooing & making money to upgrade my hardware..