The only thing that truly ever matters with any artistic/creative thing like making music is that the making of it brings you joy and elevates your time. The OSC is a wonderful opportunity to share this and gain an understanding about how one can improve their skills in many respects. Coming in last shouldn't be discouraging, but rather provide you with orientation. First and above all else it is about what you wish to achieve! What is it you want? What is it that you "should" want?I think I will take a break from this. It's being the 5 time in a row I'm in the last placements and it's not doing me well, although I got a lot of nice and interesting feedbacks. Thanks for the organisers and also to those I had a good time exchanging with.
It could almost be therapeutic as it could give you guidance to learning more about yourself, too. But these challenges do have a bitter taunt, no matter how one wants to look at things. Once you're music is put into a hierarchy or ranking ladder, you are being given a kind of judgement and it's virtually impossible to ignore that effect.
This angers me more often than not, not for myself, but for artists among us, who I dearly love, whose music I truly enjoy, but who could get the misinformation that their gems were of lesser value. It is not! In fact, sometimes something that inspires one other artist a lot, but fails to entertain 99% of the others may have a more valuable impact on that one artist than all the songs that were ranked higher have for those, who voted for them. Eeehhhh...did that make sense?
I hope you know what I mean.
Anyway, besides the point. If inside of you is the desire to communicate with your music, to share something of yours, then you must not abandon it, but consider learning more about how you can make your music be understood better or more easily. If you have nothing you really wish to say, then you really wouldn't want to make music in the first place.
If you wish to make music not for the sake of music, then you have to do some deeper self-/soul searching to figure out why you picked music to begin with. You may discover more suitable approaches to get what you're after. But then, too, music would've served a great purpose already, having been the first step on an important journey of yours.
I love the OSC, because I love synths just as much as I love making music and it's a place where we know we listen to each other and can expect appreciation, regardless the ranking. The challenge of exploring some random synth in greater depth is an invaluable motivator to potentially discover many different benefits. Could become a new favorite synth, could be a genre of music it made you experiment with, could be a way of designing a sound or inspire you to learn aspects of music theory you may have neglected before and last but not least, mastering and its fascinating challenges. All these things. For anyone, who is serious about music, particularly digital production, the OSC is one of the most powerful tools to grow and a massive source of fun, too.
If you ever have any particular questions or the likes, never hesitate to ask them. Among the many of us, I'm always very happy to help!
Statistics: Posted by Taron — Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:37 pm