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opiadream · Post by **opiadream** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:11 am

the musical dry spell
when you just didn't have it in you to finish a song
or even begin a new one
when you turn everything on and start doodling
and it comes to nothing inspiring enough to roll with.

just curious

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:14 am

Pretty much the entire time actually

I just hack and slash and piss about and now and again something comes of it.

Its a good method and i'm sticking by it

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:33 am

Illustration-wise, I've gone over a year or longer on non-commissioned creativity, but I have been doing it long enough that I realized a dry spell isn't much to worry about; what's usually happening is sub-consciously you are still contemplating your art & when you return to your medium you'll find yourself doing things differently and/or better than you were before.

This is no different within the context of creating music I've noticed.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Read a book, shoot a nieghbor, roll around naked on some pinecones, eat a dog..ya know..distract yourself with a non-routine activity & then return to what you really wanna do. Everyone reaches a saturation point where they need a break from something, even if it's an obsession..

Salude'

opiadream · Post by **opiadream** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:36 am

sicklecell666 wrote:Illustration-wise, I've gone over a year or longer on non-commissioned creativity, but I have been doing it long enough that I realized a dry spell isn't much to worry about; what's usually happening is sub-consciously you are still contemplating your art & when you return to your medium you'll find yourself doing things differently and/or better than you were before.

This is no different within the context of creating music I've noticed.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Read a book, shoot a nieghbor, roll around naked on some pinecones, eat a dog..ya know..distract yourself with a non-routine activity & then return to what you really wanna do. Everyone reaches a saturation point where they need a break from something, even if it's an obsession..

Salude'

hmmmmm
haven't tried the pine cone thing yet...

thanx
in general

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:41 am

I went the better part of a year. I took up synth patch design for a while as my only musical output. Then I took up Synthedit, which got the ball rolling again.

I noodled a lot during the dry spell, played piano and the like. I didn't worry about not producing much as I was trying to figure out what I actually wanted to do with my music. I felt I had reached a sort of creative impasse before the break. The past year, however, has been one of my most productive.

Cheers,
Steve

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:41 am

opiadream wrote:
sicklecell666 wrote:Illustration-wise, I've gone over a year or longer on non-commissioned creativity, but I have been doing it long enough that I realized a dry spell isn't much to worry about; what's usually happening is sub-consciously you are still contemplating your art & when you return to your medium you'll find yourself doing things differently and/or better than you were before.

This is no different within the context of creating music I've noticed.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Read a book, shoot a nieghbor, roll around naked on some pinecones, eat a dog..ya know..distract yourself with a non-routine activity & then return to what you really wanna do. Everyone reaches a saturation point where they need a break from something, even if it's an obsession..

Salude'
hmmmmm
haven't tried the pine cone thing yet...

thanx
in general

So you HAVE tried shooting a neighbour and eating a dog?!

Hink · Post by **Hink** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:49 am

it's all about cycles, recognizing what cycle you're in, accepting what cycle you're in and taking advantage the benefits of each different cycle's strengths...

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:50 am

quincy wrote:
opiadream wrote:
sicklecell666 wrote:Illustration-wise, I've gone over a year or longer on non-commissioned creativity, but I have been doing it long enough that I realized a dry spell isn't much to worry about; what's usually happening is sub-consciously you are still contemplating your art & when you return to your medium you'll find yourself doing things differently and/or better than you were before.

This is no different within the context of creating music I've noticed.

I wouldn't sweat it.

Read a book, shoot a nieghbor, roll around naked on some pinecones, eat a dog..ya know..distract yourself with a non-routine activity & then return to what you really wanna do. Everyone reaches a saturation point where they need a break from something, even if it's an obsession..

Salude'
hmmmmm
haven't tried the pine cone thing yet...

thanx
in general
So you HAVE tried shooting a neighbour and eating a dog?!

Wow you got the joke

peppy197 · Post by **peppy197** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:08 am

sicklecell666 wrote: Read a book, shoot a nieghbor, roll around naked on some pinecones, eat a dog..ya know..distract yourself with a non-routine activity ...

Salude'

Well, thankfully the neighbours moved out and took there two peanut yappers (dogs) with them. YES!!!

And they were such lousy owners the place is a mess and nobody wants to buy. YES!..
NO NEIGHBOURS TO EAT

I like that.

But I usually travel 1000 km to Steve's Music Store in Montreal and drool on their synths and things. Then I return home to my mostly computerized setup without any real great analogue synths and do nothing again.

But at least I cant eat the neighbours nor shoot their dogs...
Otherwise Id be doing nothing in jail...

allen

machinesworking · Post by **machinesworking** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:11 am

Right now it's bad, real bad! I could get laid in a cathouse with a thousand dollars and a half pound of cocaine.

Oh wait, you guys were talking about music right? That, I have no problems with, tend to write too much, and no market myself enough.
Women on the other hand........................

nool · Post by **nool** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:33 am

i took a 1 year break, but then again my IRL got real busy :p

now, its the opposite ... guess the cyclical theory has its merits..

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:08 am

Over two years... fallout from having been ripped off royally by a certain UK label which shall remain nameless...

Sickle's right about this one. Go and do something else, preferably something you've never done before. It always comes back.

smp · Post by **smp** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 3:29 am

2 years and counting. Of course, for all of this year I've been learning guitar and using my wife as a free music theory teacher (she marks my workbooks as I work through the theory syllabus).

For the first year of the dry spell I felt I had no direction, no knowledge, no skill and what musicality I had I thought was trapped behind these excuses. Over the last 12 months I've been working on removing these barriers (real or self-imposed, I'm not quite sure).

I've got a good feeling that over the next 6 months or so the floodgates just might open up (touch wood).

-s

Chickenman · Post by **Chickenman** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 4:30 am

While I teaching..... 4 years of no significant originality by me... I wrote songs that students could play (I mostly taught complete bands) and worked on composition and arrangement and stuff but did not have the soul left in me at the end of the day to write anything remotely honest.

Until (after quitting at the start of this year) 1 month ago... so more like 4 and 1/2 years.

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:16 am

usually a week or two max, but then I have low standards.

what's the longest dry spell you've ever had