September 28ths

 

9/28/2010 

One thing instrumentalists understand is touch and feeling.

[Musing on Music LLM: “Discuss tactility in music”]    

9/28/2019

Primary creative “access points” can sometimes lead toward more shallow depths of superficial interest, with no continued exploration of the ideas. Ideally what you should want is to follow through the various waypoints, even if how you began was clumsy or naive. 

Creativity can have these kinds of “desire paths” but you have to have the desire to make them, or else you’re going around in the same circles thinking the scenery is somehow different, or that where you’ve come to a dead end.            

There are departures but never complete arrivals in creativity.            

[9/28/2024: Even though it’s a rare experience, I love it when the final result resembles the initial stages and access points. I’m reminded of Stephen Sondheim, who certainly didn’t follow trends and continued on writing exclusively on paper. A good takeaway is that even if you know technology is going to mow everything down, you can hold firm on how you work. You remember how you started and you use that as an anchor].         

["Discuss 'access points'"]

9/28/2021            

When you’re writing music, earworms are very useful for incubating the piece. You don’t have to play it over and over in your multi-track. But like the song ideas I get in dreams (another form of an earworm), the music you’re hearing internally seldom resembles what actually happens. It’s like the Heisenberg Principle: as soon as you look at it, it has changed.