août 26, 2010 1

Feedback

By in Sound

Firstly I would like to thank Tim Prebble for the attention it has to wrote an answer (a novel!). Few things interpellate me.

Creativity and curiosity

  • « … being too judgemental BEFORE you record.« 

That’s true. I think it’s just a lack of reliance. I must become again a little kid and accept to be surprised. Maybe after I will be happy of what I did?

We can also feel block by failing to get out of the technical. Always better equipement? Always follow the codes? It’s a work to reach beyond that.

  •  » (…) On some creative projects I go through short periods where I think the project has become worthless – it’s all bad! Why am I even trying to finish this? I guess it is a form of doubt. But I’ve learned that it is important to just delay those feelings. I tell myself: stop being judgemental and keep going! Do the next step, and the next one, and once the project is a little further developed, then stop have & see how you feel about it. And funnily enough this tactic usually works. Whatever made me feel bad was momentary, a passing mood shift or something external & short lived. Most projects of any depth take time and there will be stages that feel frustrating, but you just have to keep going and push through those feelings. (…) « 

That’s what I do, but when the projects where it was difficult to finish them are repeated and where the lack of inspiration is great, you ask yourself questions. The most annoying is when these projects affect the projects on which you have invested more personally. It is difficult to separate « business projects » (where your paid for your job/passion) and personal project.

The word who is for me the most important is « persevere ». So I’ll persevere!

;)

Feeds (Twitter, Blog, Reviews…)

It’s funny because i’m using nearly the same configuration for manage all RSS but very often I’m afraid of missing something interesting. Sometimes when I go on vacation or have too much work. I’m not on my google reader for a week when I come back often I click on « Mark all as read », it’s almost good and it’s always reassuring to know that we can say stop.

  • « (…)Learning to filter the crap out of your life so it doesn’t waste your attention is VERY IMPORTANT!(…) »

I’m agree with you but more and more people write on internet, more and more you have very interesting project how emmerge like Dynamic Interference or Hiss and Roar Collaborate (I should also participate, it would be good for me!) and it’s hard to refuse to follow them.

Like you, i’m not watching TV except when they have good films or documentary on Arte but it’s rare.

Motivation and Direction(s)

  • « (…)I suspect this happens for most people at some stage in their life. For some it takes the form of a mid-life crisis, but here is another way of thinking about it. Maybe it is something you should actually think about every day? A film maker I worked with years ago died this week, she was only 49. She doesn’t have any days left now. So maybe every morning it is worth thinking about how your day should be best spent? If you do not feel inspired to compose or record, don’t do it. Putting yourself under pressure may be self defeating. But sometimes it is the act of doing that generates inspiration and not vice versa.(…) »

I hadn’t thought of the age (24 years) but why not. When I made the most of my tracks I was composing having fun, having a very live approach (on reason and Live). Now it’s a much more conventional. I enjoy less, this is probably why I don’t like too composed. Is it because what I do when I compose music look like to much my work?

You also speak about the finish or the checkpoint in life, job… It’s harder to do something you don’t like when you don’t kow when is finishing.

I hope that everything who is written here is understandable and I don’t appear too much like a person who suffers or who is lost. I’m trying to isolate the problem to better fight it and I think i failed in time and task management.
I think I have often problems related to time management so it’s better to reflect the earliest.
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One Response to “Feedback”

  1. tim dit :
    27 août 2010 à 2 h 11 min

    thanks Benoit! My own first sound advice ☺

    re Perseverence
    I reccomend reading a book by Seth Godin called The Dip
    http://www.squidoo.com/theDipBook

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