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I’ve made it a bit of a habit (by accident) of turning all the stuff I love into work. So to find a way around it, I’ve started to remix songs I like and such - stuff I objectively cannot monetize. So I can’t turn it into a job because I don’t own any of the underlying material. It’s a great way to express yourself artistically and reclaim your love of art. 🫡
Oct 28, 2024
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I’m still early on making music — but this is it:
I️ played like drums in middle school and then fell out of like “performing“ until adulthood when I️ decided to start DJ-ing. I️ loved that so much I️ was like I️ feel like I️ can make my own things like 6 months ago and I’ve just been making small shitty 2 minute things for myself every day.
For me it’s kinda meditative? Like usually no one hears the songs I am making (besides my partner) but it’s really just for me. No clue if any of them will ever reach a record or be on Spotify, but I️ feel like it’s making me greater appreciate music in general.
May 4, 2024
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Throughout my whole life, I had awful music teachers. I had a piano teacher that made me sit on my hands because he was frustrated with the way I played scales and a music teacher in primary/middle school that gave me so many anxiety attacks that my doctor finally gave me a note so I didn’t have to go anymore.
I was told so many times throughout my life that I had no music talent, discouraged from going further than scales but all of those people (teachers!!!!) were wrong. They just couldnt fathom that I had a different musical brain than them.
When I was 23, I ended up having to move back home from LA after my job rescinded their promise to sponsor me for a visa. I was depressed and heartbroken and lonely. I went to school for writing but didn’t want to write anymore so I ended up opening GarageBand on my iPad.
I was inspired by all the things I could do on it. I suddenly felt like I was entering a new world. After making a couple beats, I started moving everything over to the laptop version of GarageBand. I bought big headphones, a cheap usb mic and a keyboard off of a guy from Craigslist and continued to tinker. One of my favorite things to do at the time was to download karaoke midi tracks of popular songs I loved, import them into GarageBand and change the instrument until I felt like I was making something new. I would then use my shitty mic to wail on top of it.
I used GarageBand for years after that to make tons of songs that I just uploaded to SoundCloud without thinking about it much. Eventually I got a controller/sampler and access to Ableton and thats when the fun really started.
My love for music making snowballed after that, I amassed more gear and skill and eventually made an album after a couple years. I was obsessed with making it and while I feel really whatever about it now, I don’t feel whatever about the experience.
Music has allowed me space to express parts of me that there are no words for. The best thing I can impart is to take advantage of this. There are some things that you can only explain with a kick drum or a sine wave or a really hard bassline.
Music is still a huge part of me! I made another album after that first and now I’m working on my next project. I recently reincarnated myself (everyone in the ~industry~ advised against this but I’m a different person now) and I’m excited to see what’s in store for me. I don’t expect to make money or become famous but music feeds my soul in a way nothing else can.
Have fun!!
May 4, 2024
As an artist I typically find myself uninspired by my craft at times. Something told me to randomly upload a song I released on Sound Cloud (in 2021) to all streaming platforms recently. Initially when I made the song I did not take myself or the track seriously, but after I uploaded it I received so much love for it. Morale of the story is to be nicer to yourself as an artist, you never know who you are is inspiring. 💿
Sep 29, 2024
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Initially a weird experience but so many studios don’t seem to care about any of their catalog from the 1970s and prior. So they don’t even bother to copyright strike on YouTube or Vimeo or Archive.org. ive watched Laura, Kiss Me Deadly, the Elaine May’s Heartbreak Kid, Stepford Wives just online for free. I couldn’t even find a place to rent or buy Elaine May‘s Heartbreak Kid it was nuts
Sep 27, 2024
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But refusing to acknowledge the owner. I’m here for the dog, man
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