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i'd like to read where people's mind's go when they think about their craft

think of everything you've made. gather them all in your head and sit amongst them. nestle right in there and think.

post what you thought!

here's mine, kind of negative but whatever.

i spend hours rolling around in my own thoughts. stacking and gluing them together, presenting them to people, and hoping for a compliment.

the whole thing reminds me of when this guy at work that made a calendar with a picture of him for every month, and passed them out at the office.

i wonder if when i show someone one of these pieces of me, they see a portrait of a moment with me, or a collection of what's flawed with me. because i don't usually create when i'm satisfied and feeling happy, it's all born of frustration, lonely moments, or just trying to make something to quench a certain thirst.

when i play a song for a friend, does he see a batcock mspaint, a pleasant portrait of the personality they know and like, or an organizational chart of all the things that it's copying.

when i listen or look at something i've made twenty years later i wonder if will remember the experience of piecing it all together. the experience is definitely louder than the music for me these days. will it all collapse and feel empty for me in the future when i forget the time with the song? has it always been empty to everyone but me?

I think most art comes out of frustration, sadness, and/or anger.

A little over a year ago I started a project where I took a picture every day with my digital camera. Most of it was shit, since I never really took photography seriously, but I did get some quality stuff eventually. Was a good excuse to take a walk.

I think about a mirror and it flipping inside out to reveal another world, one that is perfect and in which everything grows and never dies, and how what I create gets sent to this world and remnants are left behind in our world for my friends, family to notice but not fully understand and I wish for this mirror to integrate itself with our world, to fix it, so that there is no more death and sorrow, so that we can all walk around free from strife and truly love everything and everyone without any thought about consequence, jealousy, or hatred....

this is why I create though, so that maybe this world will become our world and I am helping to bridge the gap, like all of the other true lovers/creators of art before me...

I try to convey this through speaking, photography, writing, making music, and drawing....

I really want to be a Marine Aviator but my feet are not arched enough....

i feel that showing anything is showing off. i can't play my music for you whilst we're in the same room.

i do have nice slippers though

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

i feel that showing anything is showing off. i can't play my music for you whilst we're in the same room.

i'm like that. my face fills with blood, the room heats up, water clings to me. it's like a dream where something bad is happening but you don't do anything to stop it, because it's supposed to happen in the dream or your legs don't work. im really high

  Adjective said:

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

i feel that showing anything is showing off. i can't play my music for you whilst we're in the same room.

 

i'm like that. my face fills with blood, the room heats up, water clings to me. it's like a dream where something bad is happening but you don't do anything to stop it, because it's supposed to happen in the dream or your legs don't work. im really high

DJing is a good way to get over this, then you playing other people's tunes, you can set up the set before hand and hopefully get a room full of people dancing and thinking that you are the shit!

I suppose I 'make art' to draw out the fleeting moments of personal significance and hope from the harshness of reality and skullcrushing vastness of the universe. Its nice to focus on something managable with perameters and a sense of completion as most of my time is spent struggling with modern life. Its like focussing a torch, things feel more intense, clearer.

Confirmation of what I produce is far down the list on my reasons for doing it.

Its a sort of exorcism in a way too I guess.

If anyone has any advice on talking about art without sounding like a twat, feel free to contribute.

i don't overthink it. if i want to make it and i enjoy it and maybe someone else enjoys it then why try and validate it oign up with some nonsense reason of what it means. don't tell me what it means. it means what it means. don't tell me what you're trying to achieve. it achieves what it achieves by itself.

then think of a vague title and sell that shit

As far as music goes, I feel that I'm constantly being flooded and the only way to keep from drowning is to write and flush it out.

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

i don't overthink it. if i want to make it and i enjoy it and maybe someone else enjoys it then why try and validate it oign up with some nonsense reason of what it means. don't tell me what it means. it means what it means. don't tell me what you're trying to achieve. it achieves what it achieves by itself.

 

then think of a vague title and sell that shit

I think music shouldn't really have to be about something. If it's good, it conveys itself.

  Braintree said:

As far as music goes, I feel that I'm constantly being flooded and the only way to keep from drowning is to write and flush it out.

 

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

i don't overthink it. if i want to make it and i enjoy it and maybe someone else enjoys it then why try and validate it oign up with some nonsense reason of what it means. don't tell me what it means. it means what it means. don't tell me what you're trying to achieve. it achieves what it achieves by itself.

 

then think of a vague title and sell that shit

 

I think music shouldn't really have to be about something. If it's good, it conveys itself.

yeah just look at autechre's music

listen, actually

I mostly try (and fail) to integrate whomever I'm showing something I made to into the world that many of my creations occupy, figuring that they'd experience it for what it is worth if they understand it (because nearly everything I end up creating is really esoteric and outsider, not exactly intentionally). Most of the time other people aren't that interested, though.

smoke crack + make tracks

  Etch said:

Its like focussing a torch, things feel more intense, clearer.

that image is sticking in my mind

i keep picturing time as the fuel and when i'm working "in the zone" i've got time flowing at full blast and my body becomes spent from burning so brightly and any bladerunner snapshot that anyone would post as an empty response to this post has already happened and when it's over time is sluggish and tired and won't cooperate

Art is only interaction. If it can inspire, it is art and has served its purpose.

Abandon all notions of the quality of art.

i'm in this terrible rush to understand... and i don't even understand why. how does this work? what would happen if i tried this? why am i the way i am? what is this other person like, and why are they that way? i look back over the last ten years of my life and i see a growing philosophical maturity of which i feel intensely proud. yet... can't really find a point to it.

I have real trouble deciding what is a good sound and what isn't - I mean, what makes a good sound? It's impossible to define. Its easy when you are listening to other's music, but when you are making it it's different.

painting is dead

  Christoph said:

I have real trouble deciding what is a good sound and what isn't - I mean, what makes a good sound? It's impossible to define. Its easy when you are listening to other's music, but when you are making it it's different.

what does "good" mean?

not bad

  ET said:

not bad

please define "quite good" using "not bad"

Here are two quotes that resonate 100% with me:

"I must admit, not a single work ever succeeds; they all miss, naturally. Because it's the dream I try for that can't be realized." - MC Escher

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." -Gustav Mahler

there is no good or bad with art. There is a set of standards which most artists tend to conform to that are quite different from genre to genre. I totally agree about art being a form of communication. I love using art to communicate because it allows us to use a much more diverse and different vocabulary that is often alot more difficult to describe using language, but is easily as, if not more diverse and rich a method of communication.

Thats why I think all art should be free, because its gotten to the point now where anybody with a computer has plenty of capability to produce their own individual art pieces in whichever medium they prefer. Just look at newgrounds.com as a good example, tons and tons of artists uploading their hours of work for free. What do they get out of it? not much really, sometimes recognition I suppose, which I understand because personally I would really like to hear a few people comment me on my work. I don't want to be famous, just to move a few people and hear from them that I have moved them.

The benefit to a free art market is that there is SO much more content out there for everyone to experience, and it ends up forming a communication network that is infinitely more complex, diverse, and voluminous which connects many more individuals on a personal level because of our level of technology.

  Kcinsu said:

Here are two quotes that resonate 100% with me:

 

"I must admit, not a single work ever succeeds; they all miss, naturally. Because it's the dream I try for that can't be realized." - MC Escher

 

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." -Gustav Mahler

i'm going to make that gustav mahler quote my sig so that i never forget it

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"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music." -Gustav Mahler

unless of course it was at this point in human history where 95% of musicians don't even understand the idea of music and sell their albums with everything besides actual music. That and just about every single popular genre of music does not say anything that words can't say.

Fuck pop-culture