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Setting the mood for creative process
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Pavel
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Posted : Aug 8, 2003 19:30
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What do you do before starting to work on your music?
Listen to the favorite music?
Smoke something  ?
Something else maybe?
  Everyone in the world is doing something without me |
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Mike A
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Posted : Aug 9, 2003 10:46
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I need to clean my mind of other things.
Can't work on music when I know I need to do something.
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Mindfly
Mindfly
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Posted : Aug 9, 2003 12:14
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Just sit down and mess around...80 % of the time, nothing usable ever comes out of it...
I tend to be most creative, when I'm in a very crappy mood... 
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Khopat
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Posted : Aug 12, 2003 03:41
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nothing special.....the mood comes when u least expect! As mindfly said most of the time nothing usable comes out! My best stuff comes out when i stop producing for awhile...like a week...and i restart...always killer stuff! |
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solipt1c
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Posted : Aug 12, 2003 03:54
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i need my housemates to leave me alone, which usually means waiting for them go to bed.
then smoke a load of spliffs, cruise slsk and listen to a wide range of stimulating music...thats about as far as it goes really. oh, and cold coke, that helps too.
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HujaBoy
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Posted : Aug 12, 2003 12:17
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Theres no such thing in my opinion.
All u have to do is turn on the machines and make magic
and i think smoking is bad for producing.
Since i quit smoking wheed and stuff i make better sound and work much faster.
And when i tried working on acid it was almost impossible. |
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O.zen
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Posted : Aug 12, 2003 12:38
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stop doing sex a week before.
"move your body! if you don't have one, GET ONE!" |
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Pavel
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Posted : Aug 12, 2003 22:58
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On 2003-08-12 12:38, dj_o.zen wrote:
stop doing sex a week before.
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I can relate to this one.
I guess that explains my bad music
Everyone in the world is doing something without me |
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lookbeat
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 00:08
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get a beer but not get drunk! |
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Yuli
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 00:35
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Huja is right
of course there is the muse thing so sometimes it comes over and makes life much easier, but basically all u need is sit down and dive into the system. The longer u do it, the better u get
One more piece of advice - too much music is not good either so refresh your mind and body from time to time
A man with a "master plan" is often a woman |
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KosMos
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 00:46
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always with my mind clear from all other thoughts & always after at least some hours of no music at all..
i always work on sounds, loops, experiment on new ideas, start a new track and change a finished one in the night when i'm tired..
you could say it's a natural way to "drug" myself..
i do the sequencing in the morning when clearer and faster mind (and hands) is needed..
i can't do the opposite and have a good result...
in search for an answer... |
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billy ambulance
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 17:56
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I usually listen to tha track that im workin on over and over till Im totaly into the music, than I play with my synth to get the atmosphere right and than I start recording... and after that?
i smoke bongs and fuck bitches at dawn..
check out! www.soundclick.com/spasm |
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mlazar
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Posted : Aug 13, 2003 18:05
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For me I'm one of those ADHD types... half the time when I my mind is moving faster than I can tweak knobs.. For me some of that ingested "slowness" helps me SLOW DOWN and read the knobs I'm messing with. I usually have a better time finding things when I don't have other things racing along in the periphery.
I have a tool for 2k/XP (NTFS) called hard link magic. It is free and I recommend it. Run it while you are in Logic or Cubase. Unlike shortcuts HARDLINKS are like symbolic links in UNIX.
I take an AKAI disc and listen to it. Any sound that is interesting to me I extract, I no longer have the HD space to waste on samples I will never use. Then I make a hard link to another directory (all of them start with _underscore so they are pushed to the top of the folder) and I make links in my directories called Environment, Basses, Drum Oneshots/wierd percussion, etc. Then when I need to look for a sound I go to the categorical directory and look at all my sample CDS but only those certain sounds.
Helps me during the creative process so I don't listen to CDs back and forth for days on end.
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Mind Manipulation
Mind Manipulation
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Posted : Aug 17, 2003 07:48
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I just tend to sit down.... cant really remember much after that, untill i drop on the keyboard..........................many hours later.
Manipulation is to the chemist, like the external senses to the mind. --Whewell. |
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