Lost in Music

I've been struggling these past weeks. And it has been affecting my ability to make music, to be creative. As I said in my previous post, music is a retreat. And it's frustrating when it turns your back onto you. Well, when your own brain turns your back onto you. You start to question everything. But it's normal. It's all part of the process, I think. And I'm only half-writing this to convince myself. In the meantime, I might use this opportunity to listen to more music. As I've increased t...

After putting out my first EP late last year and taking a short break, I've been working on more, different music. I didn't want to write the same things over and over, so I actively tried to widen my scope and write something different. However, it's been a few months and I still have no clear direction in mind for my next EP. I do have a couple of songs finished, but they're really quite different and I don't know if I can put them together. They don't feel like they belong on the same EP and ...

I always loved music. My family wasn't very musical, neither parent played any instruments, but there was love and appreciation of music aplenty. My musical interests changed throughout the years, mostly in phases. But playing or making music never really crossed my mind as something I'd like to do. Even though my parents offered for me to go to music school and play any instrument I wanted, there just wasn't any pull and I refused, thinking little of it at the time. Among various phases was, in...

It's been a rough few days. So I've been retreating into music. It was (almost) always my escape. Either listening, reading about or making it. Yesterday I stumbled onto a gem of a track from a record I haven't listened to in a few years. I had this urge, this feeling I had something to add. So I took it into Ableton and started playing around with it. Today, I had a listen through my last track and did some mixing touchups. Before that, I went for a late night walk. I don't know what it i...

UNDISCLOSED is a project started by Headphone Commute in 2015. It is a collection of EPs from various anonymous electronic artists. The idea was to let established artists release work that they otherwise might never have, with no strings attached, exploring styles that lay outside of their usual. Every EP has a color, the name of the EP is that color's hex code, and every track's title is a Roman numeral corresponding to its place in the tracklist. That's it. No (real) titles, no artist names...

I've stumbled upon a couple of Twitter threads and pieces in the past few weeks that encourage people to write. Coupled with this new, beautifully redesigned Listed, an urge hit me and I decided to take up the challenge and actually try to write for a bit. I'm not sure if starting this blog is me officially entering the 100-day writing challenge, but I guess I'll figure that out in the coming days. Most of my writing over the years has been poetry. It wasn't good poetry, it wasn't meant to be ...