<![CDATA[WeeklyBeats.com - Looking for inspiration?]]> 2012-05-31T02:52:12Z PunBB https://weeklybeats.com/forums/topic/5410/looking-for-inspiration/ <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> I use evernote too, great way to get those random thoughts down

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/george+bowles 2012-05-31T02:52:12Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85417/#p85417 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> I like recreating foods as sound. Then it just develops from there

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/parallelis 2012-05-31T01:14:48Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85412/#p85412 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> My main inspiration is inertia. What I mean is I generally start a session by making some random patch on one of my analogs, and then all of a sudden I find myself in some groove, and thats how most of my shitty tracks have been born.

Other sources of inspiration are feelings in a particular moment(like the rush of unsettling Carolyn felt in UNtamed Heart as she was pursued by her would be assailants) or random things in nature(the way a platypus scurries across grass, a tornado tearing through a mobile home, etc etc etc).

I guess I'm weird like that.

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/phesago 2012-05-31T00:49:28Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85411/#p85411 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> My main inspiration comes from a kind of scientific testing of things. I like to push the red button, so to speak, JUST to see what happens. Usually the result is inspiring. But this is the general method of creation that I use all the time, and the beauty of it is there's always something new to try. John Cage says "consider everything an experiment", and that works really well for me.

I also find inspiration and ideas on what to experiment with in fairly mundane things (or non-mundane, depending on your point of view) such as nature, evolutionary biology, books, other people's experiments and an urge to adapt them for myself, as little-scale said - the phase misalignment of car indicators, and so on.

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/fc 2012-05-30T12:27:51Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85409/#p85409 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> when in doubt, consult the unknown

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/spry 2012-05-30T08:30:48Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85406/#p85406 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> Yeah.. didnt buy a metcard tho ... got a bit of a rush from going one station over just to collect samples without a valid ticket! (living on the EDGE!!)

There's a few good field recordings on WB, People writing soundtracks to their cats etc, If you look enough (somehow) you can find musical inspiration from anything it seems.

p.s, Yay! You Joined!! Welcome to WeeklyBeats man smile

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/aday 2012-05-07T03:56:52Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85162/#p85162 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> Aday wrote:

Right now tho... with 12 hours to go, and nothing commited to my sequencers, I think I'll go outside and sample some Eastern Suburbs Melbourne trains and play with it.

*edit* Play with the sounds of the trains, not with the trains them selves.


You actually went and sampled those train sounds yourself? nice work!
Turned out pretty well imho

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/psyops 2012-05-07T03:51:42Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85161/#p85161 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> i always find listening to someone jam on modular synths to be inspiring. that or classical music.

Check out Hr Hoffman's work on his modular setup, it's pretty amazing
http://soundcloud.com/drberndthoffmann

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/psyops 2012-05-07T03:49:40Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85160/#p85160 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> I've been entering random abstract notes into my evernote for the last few years (http://evernote.com/).
Fantastic for logging that random 'oh my god this idea needs to be written down' moments whist your in traffic trying to sync up your indicators ..

Right now tho... with 12 hours to go, and nothing commited to my sequencers, I think I'll go outside and sample some Eastern Suburbs Melbourne trains and play with it.

*edit* Play with the sounds of the trains, not with the trains them selves.
Train-step-electro-house-somthing? time will tell!

Lucky I slept all day after the weekend, it might be a long night.

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/aday 2012-05-06T11:43:53Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/85138/#p85138 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> I was planning on doing a song for each season as they came around. So a spring song should be soon as we had an early one here in MI.

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/pwr 2012-03-25T18:32:19Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/84146/#p84146 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> So I haven't posted here in a while and I thought id share this bit of inspiration: when someone you care about leaves your life, what better way to process those emotions than writing music? I got pissed and wrote some trash to dedicate to my ex. Perhaps there is someone leaving a void in your life worthy of filling with a song :-)

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/spry 2012-03-25T16:33:01Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/84144/#p84144 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> Nice nice. I want to do the same. I might do so for WB. I will do so for WB.

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/little-scale 2012-01-05T22:54:35Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/81700/#p81700 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> little-scale wrote:

On the topic of traffic jams, I find indicator phase differences between multiple cars when waiting to turn right or left to be inspiring.

Years ago, I remember a girl from my undergrad composition class did a minimalist phase piece based upon that very principle.

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/tristan+louth-robins 2012-01-05T22:52:41Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/81699/#p81699 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> Need to circuit bend your car.

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/little-scale 2012-01-05T20:57:52Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/81694/#p81694 <![CDATA[Re: Looking for inspiration?]]> little-scale wrote:

On the topic of traffic jams, I find indicator phase differences between multiple cars when waiting to turn right or left to be inspiring.

I fucking hate when someone's signal is faster than mine. Makes me feel inadequate. u_u

]]> https://weeklybeats.com/solarbear 2012-01-05T15:32:09Z https://weeklybeats.com/forums/post/81690/#p81690