Recording an album...creative flow? (2 Viewers)

[washingcattle]

You mean like this?

You Rang?



I have found that as soon as you start to talk about how you work you kind of become too self aware/self conscious to work in that way for quite some time. I wonder if people posting here who had to actually consider their own working methods before posting have found that this actually inhibits what is otherwise an organic and more subconscious process.

I personally have no idea how I make songs or art or anything and I don't want to to me it's like looking too hard at a magic show trying to figure out the tricks. Once you do you can never go back to believing in magic. While I'm not saying that you should never criticise/pick holes in/ destroy and ultimately hate your own work, because no one can help but do that, I am saying that it may not be too healthy to over analyse how you go about making it.

Just a thought. This is a fascinating thread though.

 

[shower another shower]

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/oblique/oblique.html

 

[Spartak]

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/oblique/oblique.html

Some interesting points there.

Also some baffling ones. "Twist the spine"? WTF?

 

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You Rang?



I have found that as soon as you start to talk about how you work you kind of become too self aware/self conscious to work in that way for quite some time. I wonder if people posting here who had to actually consider their own working methods before posting have found that this actually inhibits what is otherwise an organic and more subconscious process.

I personally have no idea how I make songs or art or anything and I don't want to to me it's like looking too hard at a magic show trying to figure out the tricks. Once you do you can never go back to believing in magic. While I'm not saying that you should never criticise/pick holes in/ destroy and ultimately hate your own work, because no one can help but do that, I am saying that it may not be too healthy to over analyse how you go about making it.

Just a thought. This is a fascinating thread though.

I use magic and like all good magicians I never revel my secrets.

 

[washingcattle]

I use magic and like all good magicians I never revel my secrets.

That's the spirit. If you look at the time I wrote that post at you can imagine just how drunk I was. Has any one ever read Captain Beefhearts Guide to playing a Guitar

Now he understands the magic

1. Listen to the birds.

That's where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren't going anywhere.

2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod.

Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A guitar is also a fishing rod. If you're good, you'll land a big one.

3. Practice in front of a bush

Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen't shake, eat another piece of bread.

4. Walk with the devil

Old Delta blues players referred to guitar amplifiers as the "devil box." And they were right. You have to be an equal opportunity employerin terms of who you're brining over from the other side. Electricity attracts devils and demons. Other instruments attract other spirits. An acoustic guitar attracts Casper. A mandolin attracts Wendy. But an electric guitar attracts Beelzebub.

5. If you're guilty of thinking, you're out

If your brain is part of the process, you're missing it. You should play like a drowning man, struggling to reach shore. If you can trap that feeling, then you have something that is fur bearing.

6. Never point your guitar at anyone

Your instrument has more clout than lightning. Just hit a big chord then run outside to hear it. But make sure you are not standing in an open field.

7. Always carry a church key

That's your key-man clause. Like One String Sam. He's one. He was a Detroit street musician who played in the fifties on a homemade instrument. His song "I Need a Hundered Dollars" is warm pie. Another key to the church is Hubert Sumlin, Howlin' Wolf's guitar player. He just stands there like the Statue of Liberty-making you want to look up her dress the whole time to see how he's doing it.

8. Don't wipe the sweat off your instrument

You need that stink on there. Then you have to get that stink onto your music.

9. Keep your guitar in a dark place

When you're not playin your guitar, cover it and keep it in a dark place. If you don't play your guitar for more than a day, be sure you put a saucer of water in with it.

10. You gotta have a hood for your engine

Keep that hat on. A hat is a pressure cooker. If you have a roof on your house, the hot air can't escape. Even a lima bean has to have a piece of wet paper around it to make it grow.

 

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That's the spirit. If you look at the time I wrote that post at you can imagine just how drunk I was. Has any one ever read Captain Beefhearts Guide to playing a Guitar

Now he understands the magic

That's more like it. Do it and don't think it.

 

[ann post]

I have found that as soon as you start to talk about how you work you kind of become too self aware/self conscious to work in that way for quite some time. I wonder if people posting here who had to actually consider their own working methods before posting have found that this actually inhibits what is otherwise an organic and more subconscious process.

i just finished recording an album about a week before this thread, so yes, when your in the zone of writing an album, best keep the mouth shut, however, when its done i tend to trawl myself a bit so i don't end making the same record over and over. like if you reveal how to do all the magic tricks after the show, then for your next show your going to need new tricks, or nobody's going to stay till the end.

 

[ann post]

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