It can be very easy to become bogged down by the serious issues surrounding musical direction and artistic production. These can distract you from the task in hand. I've whiled away many an hour, spent many a sleepless night wondering what direction my music should be taking, and asking myself if I've been making the correct creative decisions whilst writing. However all this serves to do is distract you from what it real and what is important. The fact that experimenting and trying out new musical ideas is fun!
I have just finished the production of my first dedicated sound-scape. Influenced by John Cage, I have disregarded all notion of tempo and time signature and have fused various synths with field recordings to make, what I consider to be, a very beautiful short piece of music.
It's not that I haven't cared about the outcome of this piece, I have put a great amount of emotion into it, but working on this sound-scape has given me a great amount of happiness. No stress, no worries, no sleepless nights. Pure enjoyment from trying out a new way of working and freeing myself from the usual constraints I work under.
This is how creation should be.
I'm not going to say that I will never produce/write music as I have done before, but after experiencing this instinctive way of working, I will never approach production in the same way again.
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