août 24, 2010 5

State

By in Sound

I was on holidays last week end in the south west of France. I went there with record equipment (Nagra LB, Windjamer with handgun with a cardio MBHO inside). I’ve recorded nothing…!
I’ve heard nothing different, nothing who interpellate me except a 200m tyrolean traverse rope but I didn’t have my equipment…

So i’m coming back to work with no raw material. I am a bit frustrated by this result. But it’s not all …

My passion for the sound in general is tired. I no longer composed music, I record sound effects rarely, I don’t fiddle my plug-ins. I’m feeling a bit drained. I try to understand why, but I can’t find. This is not a loss of inspiration, but more the loss of desire. I wonder if this is not the lack of constraints/impositions, or the facts that I don’t work for projects that fascinates me, the fact that I don’t learn with someone passionate. Gradually the sound work became a work before a passion, whereas before it was the opposite.

Do I have to give me more constraints/impositions? Do I have to force myself to record? To compose music?

There is also something that prompts me to discourage me (I think) is that I’m never satisfied. When I record sounds, I always find that it is not good (too much noise, not accurate, we don’t recognize enough, sounds already recorded by other people …). I think I have to learn with someone who knows his work well, or with you through this blog.

That you’re already happened? Have you any advice?

PS; who do you manage the mass of sound blog, twitter timeline, new equipment review, films…. You need to clone you if you want to follow this huge mass of information. I can’t do it anymore and I am doing an overdose!

Emplty Space by Nick Chino

Emplty Space by Nick Chino

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5 Responses to “State”

  1. Vincent Percevault dit :

    un conseil, des vacances ?!?!

  2. [...] post is dedicated to Benoit, who asked me to comment on a post he made expressing a feeling of discontent and frustration – amongst other things he had returned [...]

  3. tim dit :

    I started writing a reply here but it got out of control so its become a blog post in reply:

    http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/motivation-attention-and-boring-sounds

  4. I started my blog and posted my first two messages. Maybe that will give you some inspiration… http://jedsound.com/blog/

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