I use evernote too, great way to get those random thoughts down

I like recreating foods as sound. Then it just develops from there

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.

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.

when in doubt, consult the unknown

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 :-)

Nice nice. I want to do the same. I might do so for WB. I will do so for WB.

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

Need to circuit bend your car.

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