tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474274717792932000.post4464253342092144788..comments2015-03-28T09:08:58.334-07:00Comments on The Orgasmic Life: Where the F*CK is that music coming from? (hint: open your eyes…)Candice Holdorfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10784957785832422825noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474274717792932000.post-38191275691472612552011-05-25T07:33:42.406-07:002011-05-25T07:33:42.406-07:00This is really applicable even to a composer, such...This is really applicable even to a composer, such as I am, when it comes to discovering the music within. Like your crowd of camouflaged yet right-in-plain-sight band of musicians, musical material and creative output, too, feels elusive yet obvious, falling prey only to that voice that says "something that obvious can't be all that good" or "it's not cool enough to be written down" or "no one else is listening but me..."<br /><br />This image is a lovely analogy therefore for what my creative process is sometimes like. Searching for inspiration rather than just writing what comes easily and naturally because, obviously, what comes easily and naturally is low-brow/simplistic/derivative/nonsense...etc. As an example, it could take me weeks to write something I find to be a meaningful art song only to trash it days later for being jejune when I uncover it's derivations, yet I can, right now, compose, today, a hero theme that could appear in a movie, because I am not at all concerned with derivativeness - ALL film composers are derivative. The point therein is that THIS music is the music that is there all along. Looking in the windows for the 'right' music, the 'real' music, the 'deeper' ideas may end up being fruitless and frustrating at best and paralyzing at worst.<br /><br />The music existed, for you (and for all time), for the sake of being. The crowds are irrelevant. When the crowds are the goal, the music stops being itself. In my opinion. <br /><br />Did you join in?Luis Andrei Cobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06618146686991861591noreply@blogger.com