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Is there something inherently more meaningful about composing music? It's all futile and pointless, so if the dude likes making little Dr Suess machines and the

• bborud 3y ago
  From a mental health perspective, I'm worried. Martin used to compose, record with his band and perform live. And Wintergatan are great live. Spending 5 years failing to build MMX and then starting over to spend...what, another 2,3,5 years building a machine that at this point isn't terribly interesting anymore seems more like painful sisyphean obsession than fun. And if he were to succeed this time, he will still have pissed away a decade he could have spent doing something he is actually good at. Sure, it was entertaining to watch and I learned quite a few interesting things along the way. But towards the end, it became painful and disturbing to watch as the project seemed to consume him. I'm not going to argue that one activity is more meaningful than another, but wasting a decade doing something you're clearly not good at and failing doesn't seem like a good place to be.