There are soooo many ideas and so many things that can be done with music...I think I kinda wanna focus on writing string quartet, well just strings in general really ...
Between listening to and watching videos of Ebony Quartet (i am not gonna write the French name because I can't say it, I can barely spell it and I don't know where to find those other letters with accents over em and stuff) and Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, and Stuart Duncan play I really feel like the ideas are endless. I'm really excited to try some stuff...
I used to think I was limited by particular numbers of instruments and types and stuff like quartet is only 4 strings, there are no drums and in my mind finding a way to arrange pop music in a way that is authentic to the styles of my songs and what not was a challenge...(long run on sentence and i'm not gonna edit it)...
Anyway...I am excited that there are so many different things I can do...I love the research part of writing, it doesn't stifle creativity it just opens up your ears and puts other stuff in you to expand your compositional palette.
I'm sleepy.
lol.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
I don't have favorites.
Top 10 Albums of All time....
That's a heavy question, especially for a person like me who doesn't have favorites...i just don't think about stuff like that, i don't remember specific albums, songs, moments, details etc...i might remember how something made me feel or a particular idea that I got from a song but not really....i can't even think of what albums I've listened to from beginning to end.
I feel like people have this idea that musicians/artists should have this list of favorite songs, albums, influences etc....but I just don't have that.
I don't know the first album I ever purchased.
There is not a particular moment that I decided that I want to be a musician...there are things I can remember along the way but I always feel like I don't have a sufficient answer to questions like that.
And that is ok...who am I trying to be anyway. It doesn't make me any less of a musician just because I can't name my favorite albums...I often don't know what to listen to...like ever, there are tons of songs that are common to "everybody else" that I just don't know. But WHO is everybody else?
It doesn't matter...i'll just be whatever I am...i live under this little rock and God gave me the ability to make music, its what I'm supposed to do and it doesn't matter that I don't have favorites or particular influences etc.
I am me. Listen to my music and stop asking me questions.
That's a heavy question, especially for a person like me who doesn't have favorites...i just don't think about stuff like that, i don't remember specific albums, songs, moments, details etc...i might remember how something made me feel or a particular idea that I got from a song but not really....i can't even think of what albums I've listened to from beginning to end.
I feel like people have this idea that musicians/artists should have this list of favorite songs, albums, influences etc....but I just don't have that.
I don't know the first album I ever purchased.
There is not a particular moment that I decided that I want to be a musician...there are things I can remember along the way but I always feel like I don't have a sufficient answer to questions like that.
And that is ok...who am I trying to be anyway. It doesn't make me any less of a musician just because I can't name my favorite albums...I often don't know what to listen to...like ever, there are tons of songs that are common to "everybody else" that I just don't know. But WHO is everybody else?
It doesn't matter...i'll just be whatever I am...i live under this little rock and God gave me the ability to make music, its what I'm supposed to do and it doesn't matter that I don't have favorites or particular influences etc.
I am me. Listen to my music and stop asking me questions.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
It's not that I'm tired.
It's not that I'm tired...I just don't want to be in this same place anymore.
I know that I just got serious about really moving forward and creating ways to make this stuff happen and I completely understand that I can't necessarily "create" opportunities blah blah blah BUT I can be ready whenever opportunity comes.
I am working to get ready but I think now that I've started seriously putting things together I just want to skip steps and make it happen overnight... It doesn't have to take a long time though or whatever. It's just a matter of doing.
That's all.
I know that I just got serious about really moving forward and creating ways to make this stuff happen and I completely understand that I can't necessarily "create" opportunities blah blah blah BUT I can be ready whenever opportunity comes.
I am working to get ready but I think now that I've started seriously putting things together I just want to skip steps and make it happen overnight... It doesn't have to take a long time though or whatever. It's just a matter of doing.
That's all.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Life
I am so happy to be alive today.
I love waking up and not having anything scheduled to do because then I can sit down and work on things that I want to work in. It is so lovely.
Toodleloo
I love waking up and not having anything scheduled to do because then I can sit down and work on things that I want to work in. It is so lovely.
Toodleloo
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Discipline.
What is discipline and when is it appropriate to bend and allow creativity and inspiration to take over?
I have this problem where sometimes I sit down to or I know I'm supposed to practice or write one thing and then something else comes up. Sometimes its something completely new or sometimes its an expansion of something else that I had started before.
I know deadlines and priorities exist but I'm wondering when I can just give into that other thing that is begging to have attention. To completely give into it without resisting instead of choosing not to finish it because of the things that I put on the list before it. I mean, I made the list.
I'm supposed be working on strings and I've been avoiding it. I'm kind of apprehensive about it, I sorta don't feel like it and I just am avoiding the time and tediousness of it all even though I know there will be parts of it that I enjoy.
URG...i do this all the time. I have all of these great ideas in my mind but I drag my feet on realizing it. I want it to be tangible, to exist out of my own mind. It can be such a chore to get it out though and that's what I avoid.
Slowly. one foot at a time.
I have this problem where sometimes I sit down to or I know I'm supposed to practice or write one thing and then something else comes up. Sometimes its something completely new or sometimes its an expansion of something else that I had started before.
I know deadlines and priorities exist but I'm wondering when I can just give into that other thing that is begging to have attention. To completely give into it without resisting instead of choosing not to finish it because of the things that I put on the list before it. I mean, I made the list.
I'm supposed be working on strings and I've been avoiding it. I'm kind of apprehensive about it, I sorta don't feel like it and I just am avoiding the time and tediousness of it all even though I know there will be parts of it that I enjoy.
URG...i do this all the time. I have all of these great ideas in my mind but I drag my feet on realizing it. I want it to be tangible, to exist out of my own mind. It can be such a chore to get it out though and that's what I avoid.
Slowly. one foot at a time.
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