everything from other music to every day life,everything but money,money is at last place...

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Yep, same here- I don't complain if I get some bucks with my music, but self-expression comes first

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Cybernetika albums (free DL): Atropos (2009) | Nanospheric (2008) | Neural Network Expansion (2007) | Promo #1 (2006) | Paralysis (2005)

homepage: http://www.cybernetika.de

its all about progressing as I produce for me.. as long as my tracks keeps building and i dont hit any brick walls on the way.. i complete a track in a couple of days with constant work..

but if I open my sequencer and hit thaty brick wall immediatly.. i quit the sequencer.. so its all or nothing for me..

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Yeah, it's mostly self-expression for me too. I would never like to work with it though, I don't want this pressure over my head to constantly be able to produce kickass tunes. I'd rather do it as a hobby, even if I'd one day be a pro.

I get most of my inspiration from people I meet. They symbolize a special mood, or what you'd call it, and then the melodies just pop up in my head and I try to follow that mood as much as possible when writing the song

Sometimes I'm just in the mood. I play around on the piano, find notes that fit together, then I think "what would go well with that?", so I add more, and more, and then it builds itself like that. That 'image' in my mind is shaped around the music, and not the other way around.

Normally I get the same feeling out of producing as I get out of listening, though producing creates a stronger emotion.

I listen to music all day, and when I'm not hearing it through my ears I'm imaginating it. It's always there, even in my sleep. When dreaming I create melodies, rhytms and beats. I always remember my dreams, and I also have lucid dreams from time to time, so most of my inspiration comes from my dreams. And sometimes during the day I just start dancing around like a fool creating a rhytm in my mind. The problem is to get it down on paper (or MIDI in our case), and in time I hope to learn that.

I also get an image, an idea. Like for example I want to create a track that imcorporates House-type vocals togheter with Psy-Acids, or whatever. And then I do that. I brainstorm does Ideas though, so not really inspiration one can say.

Then you got the motivation part. Producing IS the motivation. Really, I don't need to motivate myself to sit 5 hours a day producing music, I do it anyway, it's one of my only real joys in life.

cheers, nice thread

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