Color me curious. What is it that you think might hurt?
guenterschenk
· 3 months ago
Quote: ---------- ...because the songs touched the visceral part of my cre ative core and said to me, “You could be doing this. You have done this before. Why can’t you do this again?” ----------
Your subconsciousness - here´s where creativity happens - is in fact a pretty simplistic part of your mind and can´t handle abstract stuff like past, present or future -- all it´s capable to realize is the here & now moment, and any attempts to try "taming" it by e.g. confronting it with what you "know" (e.g. a deliberate retrospection of what it was like in the past) are to no purpose, because this stuff is beyond the grasp of your subconsciousness as well.
I´ve been working as musician for 20+ years myself, and the conflict you´re describing that well is very familiar to me. What can I say ? In fact I stopped this career just because I realized that I can´t create something new by dwelling in the past. Well, this was a good decision after all, because nowadays I´m enjoying music and playing guitar much more than before -- assumingly because I´ve got rid of that "I need to recreate what I´ve done 15 years ago in order to..." self-inflicted burden.
Hope this makes sense ;-)
3rdmartini
· 3 months ago
Yes, I get where you're coming from. I think that my problem is less about dwelling in the past and more about having little means to dwell in the now in a way that's conducive to creating more music. I have too many other creative demands eating away at my mindshare.
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...because the songs touched the visceral part of my cre ative core and said to me, “You could be doing this. You have done this before. Why can’t you do this again?”
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Your subconsciousness - here´s where creativity happens - is in fact a pretty simplistic part of your mind and can´t handle abstract stuff like past, present or future -- all it´s capable to realize is the here & now moment, and any attempts to try "taming" it by e.g. confronting it with what you "know" (e.g. a deliberate retrospection of what it was like in the past) are to no purpose, because this stuff is beyond the grasp of your subconsciousness as well.
I´ve been working as musician for 20+ years myself, and the conflict you´re describing that well is very familiar to me. What can I say ? In fact I stopped this career just because I realized that I can´t create something new by dwelling in the past. Well, this was a good decision after all, because nowadays I´m enjoying music and playing guitar much more than before -- assumingly because I´ve got rid of that "I need to recreate what I´ve done 15 years ago in order to..." self-inflicted burden.
Hope this makes sense ;-)