Creativity benefits from a free mind
Added 2020-12-29 14:41:10 +0000 UTCWanted to see if you agree and if you've been feeling this during your holidays. I took all Dec off work to wrap up music stuff; been nicely able to reconnect with my creative self.
One old truth relating to creativity: the more you work, the more restricted your creativity will be.
Creativity truly benefits from a free mind.
This is not to say that we shouldn't work for / earn our living, because we should. And I absolutely, totally appreciate and love my jobs and position (mixing and mastering engineer and music production "helper"/tutor), as those positions truly didn't come easy (nearly a lifelong thing in a way), so don't take this the wrong way.
But there's just no way around the old fact that only once your mind is fully free, it can start creating with full steam.
Agree, oh dear studio rats?
PS: An end-of-the-year post dropping SOON.
And a list of forthcoming content will come soon too!
Comments
Home life is the best! I've always said it :D That's why I've never even dreamed of having a studio elsewhere :)
Janne Hatula
2020-12-31 10:06:45 +0000 UTCI can definitely see how it would be harder to get motivated to start working on tunes after spending hours and hours working with music on a pro level. I would also say that i am most creative on the weekends. The nice thing about most of this last year (mostly working from home) is no drive home. I can listen to what I worked on from my last session during the day, generate some ideas for changes and then go straight to the DAW after the whistle blows. That is until the fam gets home :)
Neal Schlatter aka VariableOp
2020-12-30 23:57:51 +0000 UTCAin't that right! Me, I'm always at my most creative if there's a period (even just 2-3 days) of freetime. I hate it how in the week the creative mindset doesn't really even often get to start, because let's say I work till 5 pm, i cant somehow get straight into music (one reason may be i work with [others'] music), so I'll feel like it at 7 pm at the earliest, and as im thinking i gotta work the next day, i usually dont want to work on music very late either. I think Friday nights and Sat mornings are the best, as you wont be thinking of tomorrow. I've always had this "curse of (thinking of) tomorrow" that hinders creativity…which flourishes when the mind is fully free, even just for a day or two.
Janne Hatula
2020-12-30 16:24:37 +0000 UTCCan't tell you how many times my day job has interrupted my creative flow recently. Nothing worse than being engulfed in something and then having to stop. It's really interesting how the creative mind works as a process flowing back and forth between various stages.
Neal Schlatter aka VariableOp
2020-12-30 16:13:19 +0000 UTC
