CREATIVITY

[PhonoBrainer]

If you want to outsource your creative impetus, in a "priming the pump" kind of way, any of these might serve!

[Mr No Name]

I'm devoid of ideas, (good idea for the title )

I'm treating it as an artistic installation. In audio.

I will only spend a couple of evenings on it.

Could be interesting.

[pwallie]

so, get a cat, take some acid, wear some glasses 👍🤪

[Mr No Name]

I'll see if 3 more suggestions come in, the cat and the acid might not make it through.

[pwallie]

35 minutes ago, pwallie said:

so, get a cat, take some acid, wear some glasses 👍🤪

tbf, this is/was glastonbury , so maybe that's what you need

 

[Terry Kelley]

2 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

I'll see if 3 more suggestions come in, the cat and the acid might not make it through.

The issue is the task order. Eat the acid, wait 90 minutes then pick the cat. Results are guaranteed.

[Amberwolf]

See this post for the results of one thing I tried out last week; worked for that song:

(mostly quoted from that thread: ) I started it because I was having trouble hearing anything i needed to in the untitle4d WIP so i forced myself to (mostly) just use sounds out of the "beta" free packs from Cymatics.fm, and to do what I could to misuse them by layering any loops so they are from different "sets", if there were "stems" I used them from different sets too, with a few exceptions, to make me make decisions I probably would not otherwise have done. 

Wherever loops came from the same set, I misaligned them on purpose so they wouldn't be "as-designed", and chopped out bits as needed to make things fit what I heard in my head as I listenened to the results. Added fx to some (including Acmebargig's Shred to some of the guitar bits after rearranging the chopped up pieces of those). 

Except the bassline, which is created using some of the midi clips supplied with some of the stemmed clip sets, then edited / cleaned up to play a Z3TA2+ synth with an arp.  

I also "splattered the canvas" with various sounds first, dropping things into the tracks (using a template made from the untitled WIP)

[T Boog]

14 hours ago, Mr No Name said:

I'll see if 3 more suggestions come in,

I think I mentioned this in the past but u could copy the beat from a song u like then take a chord progression or bassline from a diff song and play it backwards (reverse the progression) over that beat. And then just play around with it until u hear something u like.

Btw, Many pros work this way. It's just a proactive way of creating. As long as u end up with something original sounding, who cares where it came from. Just mimic a part, reverse a part &/or cram diff things together and see where it leads u.

It's up to you of course but Id just try it and see how it works. If it doesn't work for u, so be it. But if it does help u spark ideas, it could be more than a one time experiment. It could be part of the way u craft music in the future. Cheers!

 

Edited December 9 by T Boog
Clarify

[Notes_Norton]

Try this:

1. Get Band-in-a-Box auto-accompaniment software from PG Music
2. Enter a chord progression from a song you are not very familiar with (preferably from a Norton Music aftermarket Fake Disk *)
3. Change the style (preferably with an aftermarket Norton Music style *)
4. Listen to it over and over again, without paying much attention, even while doing something else
5. Much later, after it's internalized, sing or play a melody or catchphrase and take it from there

Start with simpler chord progressions, similar to your genre, but not recognizable by you. 

When you are done, listen to the song the progression was taken from, to be sure you didn't subconsciously plagiarize it. 

* You can ignore the self-serving plugs

 

Notes ♫

Edited December 10 by Notes_Norton