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Going through something somewhat similar, here's where I got hung up: too many ideas that had "potential". I found it really difficult to figure out where to dr
by tunesmith 4y ago
Going through something somewhat similar, here's where I got hung up: too many ideas that had "potential". I found it really difficult to figure out where to draw the line that would keep me moving forward with material generation, as opposed to reviewing old material.
Come to think of it, I had the same problem with my Anki decks. I created too many cards and eventually fell too far behind.
It's too bad because I really enjoy recording all my rehearsals.
- raydiatian 4y agoI remember seeing a Brian Eno interview where he lambasted non-session musicians as “(every one of them) thinking that they’ve got a Darkside Of The Moon in them, but then they just go into the studio and get lost in playing with Synth patches”
- jcpst 4y agoKind of like this recent HN post, “Fractal Tasks and the Journey through the Forest of the Infinite”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481368 I have a lot of music gear, including one of those analog modular synthesizers that Eno mentions. It’s so easy to get lost in timbres and textures. And then on top of that, it’s so easy to get inside of a great loop and just layer it up into a big, lush sound, but not a song. More and more, I see the parallels between my history as a composer/audio engineer and software engineer. After becoming an SE, I can dive into that same mode that I’m in when programming, but just building a musical composition. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Anyway, both tasks require the skill of zooming in and out on the scope of what you’re building.
- nagonago 4y agoDo you have a link to this interview, or remember where you saw it? I did some searching but couldn't find it.
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- raydiatian 4y agohttps://youtu.be/6v6zReRZgOA https://youtu.be/6v6zReRZgOA Oh how our minds summarize information. It was the Synth player from Pink Floyd, saying that everybody thinks they’ve got a Sgt. Pepper in them.