The Composing (De Composing for you urbanites)
I make songs... all instrumental but songs nonetheless.
I make them on my computer with programming software.
I have been known to charge money for interested buyers.
Is this by definition composing? Writing? Making? I'm not one to judge. But this is a hobby of mine which occasionally borders on a 'dream'... to be a soundtrack producer. For vid games or shows or movies or commercials.
The problem is, I care about each song I write and if I don't it comes out flat and unemotional. To write songs, I need to be inspired, where-as to write words, I just need to sit down and do it.
Inspiration is a fleeting thing and for me, it comes at the most unexpected times. If I'm struggling to finish a song and nothing is forth coming, I am a wreck. Don't look at me funny or I might kill you where you sit / stand. When I finally come up with a breakthrough it may bring tears to my eyes. Then I listen to the song over and over on every medium (phone speakers, office speakers w sub, truck, car, headphones, earbuds) and determine what levels could be changed, etc.
My point is, it is a stressful thing!! To make music on a deadline or for a project!
I don't know if that's how I want to grow old and ripe; swinging from one stress-vine to the next!
Writing is different. If I get stuck, I don't get violent tendencies, I get out of the house and into the woods. Alone preferably (or at least with Jax). Eventually I have a breakthrough. Then it is equally satisfying and in the writing process, it too can bring tears to my eyes. (now you know I'm a big wuss)
Music for me comes from emotion. Or it fails. Emotion you can't force.
Stories come from my imagination.
I haven't yet been in a position where I had to write on a deadline but now that I think about it, I imagine it is quite stressful as well.
This blog doesn't necessarily have a point... But it has been some what therapeutic for me.
Thanks.
Your welcome.
Oh, check in my list of links to hear my tunes on soundcloud (it's on the left unless I've moved it)
I make them on my computer with programming software.
I have been known to charge money for interested buyers.
Is this by definition composing? Writing? Making? I'm not one to judge. But this is a hobby of mine which occasionally borders on a 'dream'... to be a soundtrack producer. For vid games or shows or movies or commercials.
The problem is, I care about each song I write and if I don't it comes out flat and unemotional. To write songs, I need to be inspired, where-as to write words, I just need to sit down and do it.
Inspiration is a fleeting thing and for me, it comes at the most unexpected times. If I'm struggling to finish a song and nothing is forth coming, I am a wreck. Don't look at me funny or I might kill you where you sit / stand. When I finally come up with a breakthrough it may bring tears to my eyes. Then I listen to the song over and over on every medium (phone speakers, office speakers w sub, truck, car, headphones, earbuds) and determine what levels could be changed, etc.
My point is, it is a stressful thing!! To make music on a deadline or for a project!
I don't know if that's how I want to grow old and ripe; swinging from one stress-vine to the next!
Writing is different. If I get stuck, I don't get violent tendencies, I get out of the house and into the woods. Alone preferably (or at least with Jax). Eventually I have a breakthrough. Then it is equally satisfying and in the writing process, it too can bring tears to my eyes. (now you know I'm a big wuss)
Music for me comes from emotion. Or it fails. Emotion you can't force.
Stories come from my imagination.
I haven't yet been in a position where I had to write on a deadline but now that I think about it, I imagine it is quite stressful as well.
This blog doesn't necessarily have a point... But it has been some what therapeutic for me.
Thanks.
Your welcome.
Oh, check in my list of links to hear my tunes on soundcloud (it's on the left unless I've moved it)