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Jul. 26th, 2006 11:23 pmI was a good kid and got some work done on a new track tonight. Yaaay, for being good! MIDI has been surpassing my expectations in regards to remaining functional, and more or less predictable. How cool is that? Pretty darn cool.
I have a bit of a mental block when it comes to recording. As I make "structured improvisational" music, I dislike having something put down as a "permanent" version, even though it's mostly in my head. I think I've babbled about that before... but a lot of things kinda fall into it... there's perceived permanence, there's making a product, there's the commodification of art, blah blah blah. And just plain' ol' fear of rejection. Improv has a weird sort of intellectual security blanket to me. "What, you didn't like it? Well... it doesn't *always* sound like that... exactly..." Improv is kind of the antithesis to those people who go to orchestra hall with their score so they can follow along, you know? (No, really, people do this.) A lot of it, too, might be being hampered by possibilities. While it seems contradictory, in a lot of ways its easier to be creative when you force yourself to workin within stricter boundaries. Especially when you get into electronic music, when things can be tweaked and altered in such an amazing array of ways. Anyway.
I should reread 'The Bound Man", sometime- it's a short story on which I wrote my final paper when I took a European Literature in Translation course during my PSEO. I'd likely have new perspectives on it now. That class stood out as one of the best college courses I've ever taken; the teacher was enthusiastic and knew his material, the class was small, everyone did the reading, and we had really interesting discussions. If only all college classes could be like that.
I have a bit of a mental block when it comes to recording. As I make "structured improvisational" music, I dislike having something put down as a "permanent" version, even though it's mostly in my head. I think I've babbled about that before... but a lot of things kinda fall into it... there's perceived permanence, there's making a product, there's the commodification of art, blah blah blah. And just plain' ol' fear of rejection. Improv has a weird sort of intellectual security blanket to me. "What, you didn't like it? Well... it doesn't *always* sound like that... exactly..." Improv is kind of the antithesis to those people who go to orchestra hall with their score so they can follow along, you know? (No, really, people do this.) A lot of it, too, might be being hampered by possibilities. While it seems contradictory, in a lot of ways its easier to be creative when you force yourself to workin within stricter boundaries. Especially when you get into electronic music, when things can be tweaked and altered in such an amazing array of ways. Anyway.
I should reread 'The Bound Man", sometime- it's a short story on which I wrote my final paper when I took a European Literature in Translation course during my PSEO. I'd likely have new perspectives on it now. That class stood out as one of the best college courses I've ever taken; the teacher was enthusiastic and knew his material, the class was small, everyone did the reading, and we had really interesting discussions. If only all college classes could be like that.
