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adriangs | Jul 3 2006
Hello all. I'm a professional composer working in London, UK. One week in, and GTD has already sorted out the business side of my life (which is just as important for a composer of course! :-) It's awesome. But I'm now turning my attention to its possibilities as a creative motivator - i.e. motivation to complete, step by step, all these damn little ideas I have lying around (most of them for years) and which I never seemed to get any further than 30 seconds or so into. Sound is a unique medium creatively because it has to exist in real time; the next action you take on something (and I mean during the writing process, not the administrational one or the tweaking one) has to be something that results in exists in sound and therefore in time. A lot of my work is in my own studio, where it seems I've overloaded myself with too many possibilities and choices as to what bit of sound I could concoct next. Too much gear probably. In many ways, writing orchestral scores is easier, because you can create at (very close to) the speed of musical thought..dots on paper for other people to play. Anyhow... I'm sure there are plenty of creative people on this board who have thoughts about this. I've read some of the threads pertaining to visual artists, and they're very interesting. Great site folks. Adrian 1 Comment
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 Hello all. I'm a professional composer...Submitted by Berko on July 5, 2006 - 5:53am.
adriangs wrote: Hello all. Adrian, it seems to me that you are talking about two distinct activities: dealing with motives etc. that are knocking around in your head and composing more fully baked project ideas. Correct me if I'm wrong about that. I've done some composing, but I'm far far from professional, so I might not have much to say about the second bit. The first bit, though, sounds like a perfect thing to put on your hard landscape. Either make it part of your daily routine (One of my favorite composers David Maslanka gets up every morning and plays through a Bach chorale several times through singing a different part each time.) or schedule in a time to deal with some of those each week or something. So, you could schedule Thursday morning from 8:00-10:00 or some such for playing with those ideas that you have hopefully been writing down. When you schedule that time, then when you think of an idea, then you just write it down (perhaps by a Moleskine music journal) and tell yourself, "I have time scheduled for this; I'll deal with it then." And remind yourself of that if you keep coming back to it. I can't take credit for this idea really. I simply applied the ideas behind scheduling worry time to this. Check out these links. » POSTED IN:
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