The music in my head turned off

[MackTuesday]

I used to have music in my head all the time. It was great. It would be like:

• 1. Get cool idea
  2. Write it down
  3. Later, sit down and choose one of my umpteen ideas
  4. Fiddle with it
  5. Have something cool

I've gone through a period of worrying about money. Things are better now and I want to get back to making music, but I can't bring forth what used to be there anymore. Does anyone know how to bring it back?

[garryknight]

Sometimes context-dependent memory and learning comes into play in the creative process. Go back to the places where you've had inspiration in the past, and do some of the things you used to do there. Might be a long shot or might just provide the spark.

[murnau]

What a question.

[Aloysius]

Have you had your head examined recently?

[Zexila]

Update to High Sierra.

[Apratim]

listen to music all the time
youtube is the best

go to a record lable's YT page you like and pick a random one
you will find one which will ring in your head all the time and from that new ideas will come

currently i am listening to brostep now



may be this will give you some idea

[jacqueslacouth]

I hope somebody comes up with an answer here. I woke up one morning over 20 years ago and it was gone. Never come back. I have plodded on doggedly, but it has no authenticity since that morning. The words, the music...all gone!

[MackTuesday]

Thanks a lot to those who have given serious answers to my question. Why are some people deriding it?

[Zexila]

Okay, want serious answer, give us more info than, what made you even start the journey, what kind of music you do?

Smoking weed isn't best advice, but what else you got, we are artists, musicians and engineers, not psychologists.

[murnau]

Salieri: All I wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing… and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn’t want me to praise him with music, why implant the desire? Like a lust in my body! And then deny me the talent?

Always the same question huh?

[Aloysius]

I was about to offer serious advice but the voices in my head turned off.

[Jace-BeOS]

Did your period of worrying about money lead to self-censorship? Are you less emotionally free than before? Are you feeling in control of life again or still worrying?

Being happy and comfortable is conducive to creativity for many people. For example: I used to be fascinated by sound, and hearing synths and samples used to seemingly produce music in my head that I could translate into a DAW or keyboard tinkering. My life went to shit and now I'm not nearly as interested in sounds (or anything else) as I was before. I hate my life, so I don't feel free to "play" or enjoy things I used to. I'm much more apt to self-censor any creative idea or impulse. Since my compositional impulses are/were all driven by sound, and few sounds inspire me as in the past, I have had to try to be more mechanical about starting new songs. I have to methodically produce song starters (drums, maybe a bass line), until my brain catches interest. Picking a framework, concept, structural limit ("make all sounds from one synth", make all sounds from one sample", "use guitar for every sound" etc), or a theme helps. Sometimes it doesn't, and I end up with something that doesn't interest me. I'll usually save it (just in case) and start over.

I don't know that I will ever go back to "what I was", so I have to find new ways of doing things. I don't think we tend to ever go back to being our earlier selves. We just have to find what works in our current emotional makeup and move forward. The more we lament what was lost, the less we move forward. If nothing is stopping you moving forward, then you just need to learn how creativity works for you today and not try to forcibly resurrect whatever used to work in the past. Even without struggles and troubles, we change over time, so it's good to become comfortable with change of self.

[jacqueslacouth]

Thanks a lot to those who have given serious answers to my question. Why are some people deriding it?

Please, I hope you don't think I was being a dick. I am a fair dinkum, kindred spirit. Back in the day I was seriously prolific as a song writer. I don't know if it is age, if it was having a family, work crap or whatever. All I know is that there is no music in my head and their is bugger all inspiration for lyrics. (actually, not strictly true. I have a lot of rage about the state of the world that I want to scream about, but when I try to put down on paper it looks like REALLY bad teenage poetry)

[MackTuesday]

Thanks a lot to those who have given serious answers to my question. Why are some people deriding it?

Please, I hope you don't think I was being a dick. I am a fair dinkum, kindred spirit. Back in the day I was seriously prolific as a song writer. I don't know if it is age, if it was having a family, work crap or whatever.

Oh totally not. You definitely came across as earnest.

All I know is that there is no music in my head and their is bugger all inspiration for lyrics. (actually, not strictly true. I have a lot of rage about the state of the world that I want to scream about, but when I try to put down on paper it looks like REALLY bad teenage poetry)

Maybe this is the cost of growing up if you aren't free to write/produce for a living. I haven't grown up yet and I refuse to.

[MackTuesday]

...I don't think we tend to ever go back to being our earlier selves. We just have to find what works in our current emotional makeup and move forward....

You might be right. I'm fighting to protect my young self as long as possible from inevitable maturity. I can tell you from experience it's not a good strategy if you want good health care and a solid retirement plan. The kind of creativity I fear losing can be a harmful distraction.