I don't write because I don't really have anything to say or any ideas of my own.
I think for lots of people it's the act of writing itself that creates things to say. Like you see what you want to say emerge out of the words on the page. But without some words there first it can't emerge, there's no shape for it to fill in to.
I say "lots of people"...I only know like a dozen writers and most of them are on dissensus
Although I would not publish that stuff ever.
Maybe you should.
Im imagining a feel good movie about the street poet who makes the bereaved and smitten cry with the power of his words. When he falls on hard times his patrons band together through a series of unlikely coincidences to collect the lost and scattered fragments of his best work and save him from destitution and penury.
Part of the appeal of doing something physical is that it's very clear when you're good at it. There's forever an emperor's new clothes thing in my mind with anything artistic. Joyce is considered a master, but it could all be bollocks whereas you can't argue that Messi isn't a good footballer.
I think for lots of people it's the act of writing itself that creates things to say. Like you see what you want to say emerge out of the words on the page. But without some words there first it can't emerge, there's no shape for it to fill in to.
I say "lots of people"...I only know like a dozen writers and most of them are on dissensus
You've previously talked about working with presets. There's a producerly orthodoxy that you should steer clear of the presets. But that doesn't seem to worry you so much.
I don't want to sit there with three sine waves making little envelopes all day and then end up having some really boring synth sound. I mean, some people are really good at it—producers who make sounds that are more synth-based. I think my sounds are more sample-oriented. Even the synths that I like a lot are more sample-based. It's almost like with digital graphics: it's raster vs. vector. I'm more raster when it comes to sound.
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I really, really hate starting with a blank slate, it drives me insane.