My short answer is, the heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
Longer answer: sometimes I make particular plans for a composition, album concept, patch idea, etc. If I try too hard to follow that it feels like I'm forcing it and it doesn't work. So I just go where things take me in the moment.
For a while I thought of that in sort of Taoist terms. Like water in the path of a riverbed, the path of least resistance, going with the flow, stream of consciousness if you will. (Or even if you won't, I will.)
Then I heard Todd Barton talking about "following the sound." I think this is a recurring theme with him. The first time I heard him talk about it, I wasn't really following and not sure if he was high, just weird, or it was my own exhaustion. I made the connection sometime later (won't rule out the other things thought).
But the "head" part can be useful for generating ideas to try which might lead to those inspiring sounds, and a good balance of theoretical knowledge and practice putting it into play makes it easier and smoother to build off of that inspiration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
Longer answer: sometimes I make particular plans for a composition, album concept, patch idea, etc. If I try too hard to follow that it feels like I'm forcing it and it doesn't work. So I just go where things take me in the moment.
For a while I thought of that in sort of Taoist terms. Like water in the path of a riverbed, the path of least resistance, going with the flow, stream of consciousness if you will. (Or even if you won't, I will.)
Then I heard Todd Barton talking about "following the sound." I think this is a recurring theme with him. The first time I heard him talk about it, I wasn't really following and not sure if he was high, just weird, or it was my own exhaustion. I made the connection sometime later (won't rule out the other things thought).
But the "head" part can be useful for generating ideas to try which might lead to those inspiring sounds, and a good balance of theoretical knowledge and practice putting it into play makes it easier and smoother to build off of that inspiration.
Statistics: Posted by foosnark — Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:26 pm