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Producing when tired (pg. 2)
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
Wow, living so close to the Bay Area, I figured you might be an A's or a Giants fan for baseball.
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Well, I'm actually from Michigan, but we moved here about 9 years ago after grad school. I'm just not a baseball fan in general, but it's good to see the Tigers not being the laughing stock of the league!
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
Too bad about the Lions, with 0-16 last year.
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Yeah....uh....thanks for the reminder. :mad: :stongue:
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
I'm actually a big Red Wings hater over here (we call them the Red Army). They are always so damn good every year. They are like the Yankees of the NHL, and I loathe the Yankees, haha.
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If I wasn't from Michigan, I'd probably hate the Wings as well. I almost always root for the underdog teams - and tend to loathe teams that dominate year in and out (e.g., Dallas Cowboys :whip: ) |
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| Owsey2008 |
| Anything I make at nightime tends to have a more "moody" feeling, and generally turns out darker than the tracks I'd make during the day, which seem to be more upbeat. |
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| atxbigballer1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
You what distracts me more than anything else is sports. Like tonight, I'm like "OK, I need to be in the studio by 7:30, but I want to see Monday Night Football tonight." Then its like "Oh wait, there is also a Dallas Stars game at 7:30, so I want to watch that too." Before I know it, it's 10:30 and I've gotten nothing done.
Then the cycle starts all over again the next day. Typical week: "OK there is MNF, then a Mavs game on Tuesday, Stars on Wednesday, and oh yeah, Thursday night NFL is going now, so I need to watch that." College Football all day Saturday, NFL all day Sunday. It gets worse in spring and summer because that is when baseball starts up, that's 162 games I have to watch, 6 nights a week.
Oh yeah, and this season we get 2 weeks of Olympics right after the Super Bowl.
Frankly, I'm not sure how I get anything done. There needs to be more hours in the day.
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go Cowboys and texas longhorns this thanksgiving ! :) |
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| music2dance2 |
I'm defo a night person anyway so producing through the night suits me and day also.
Palm - wish i was like that. Once i get tired and im not feeling the music ill just wonder onto anything mindless. |
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| owien |
I find most of the best stuff is done in the first 5-10 min on opening the project.
when you get tired you often just about then end up all creative just to keep things intreasting.
i like to devide my time between working on things i need and play time when i'll just select all my best and make some cool riffs ect. |
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| floyd741 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Owsey2008
Anything I make at nightime tends to have a more "moody" feeling, and generally turns out darker than the tracks I'd make during the day, which seem to be more upbeat. |
+1, all the happy stuff I've made up has been done during the day whereas the ideas I get at night are a lot more minor sounding. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kismet7
I speculate that the brain is more creative when tired. |
It is, sort of. Highly creative processes are performed most productively when one is not in a state of "focused attention", which is associated with elevated dopamine levels and a high level of alertness.
That doesn't mean it helps to be ADD or stoned or otherwise easily distracted - just that you need to be able to think about several things at once to be most effective and that means doing certain things unconsciously that you'd normally have to think harder about. |
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| Subtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
It is, sort of. Highly creative processes are performed most productively when one is not in a state of "focused attention", which is associated with elevated dopamine levels and a high level of alertness.
That doesn't mean it helps to be ADD or stoned or otherwise easily distracted - just that you need to be able to think about several things at once to be most effective and that means doing certain things unconsciously that you'd normally have to think harder about. |
My brain tends to work best the day after drinking, have no idea why, but it is like that every time. |
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| floyd741 |
I was watching something on TV last night about sleep, dreaming, etc. There was one experiment they talked about that I found pretty interesting that went something like this:
A man was brought in to an office late at night and told to play an arcade game where you ski downhill by using your feet (I'm sure if you've been to an arcade you've seen games like this). So he played this game for a while and tried to get better at playing it. Then, he went to sleep and was occasionally woken up and asked to recal his dreams. Several times his dreams had to do with snow and skiing and stuff like that. The next day he was told to play the game and the cool thing was, his score improved! He was able to do certain things in the game (there was a wall he always hit that he was finally able to avoid, for example) that he was not able to do the previous day.
Now this isn't totally related to the topic of this thread but still, it's related in a way. Maybe, if you work on a song before you go to sleep and you dream about it, then the next day when you work on the song you might make it better. It may be that the guy in the experiment got better because it was a simple activity and not a creative process but who knows, it might work. |
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| Peter Campbell |
| quote: | Originally posted by floyd741
Maybe, if you work on a song before you go to sleep and you dream about it, then the next day when you work on the song you might make it better. It may be that the guy in the experiment got better because it was a simple activity and not a creative process but who knows, it might work. |
This should thread should have been called Production late at night when tired? @floyed I all ways used to do this, when I came across problems getting something to fit or work, I would go to sleep to see if my dreams would help? belive it or not more then half the time I would get my answers in my dream or just before sleeping in the twilight zone where the brain drifts in and out of the fist stages of sleep. Only one thing I was doing this In late afternoon sessions.
Everybody should be more creative late at night because its easyer to let go? Remember Creation comes only when u learn to let go. |
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| palm |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
My brain tends to work best the day after drinking, have no idea why, but it is like that every time. |
i can relate to some spesific things, but i dont function at work after drinking, i might as well call in sick, ill do more wrong than it is to do nothing by keeping away. but certain things like cleaning my house, paying bills, planning the week to come, but also things like creating music, website, artwork. I conclude with that everything that demands any social skill at all i suck at after drinking. I NEVER meet people the day after, i just dont wanna se them, and i cant react with them. But mostly creative and practical things works really good but i dont really think it has anything to do with directly, its just that i dont waste any energy or focus on social skills. This means that if i took my laptop into the mountains for a week without internet or cellphone id probably make a whole album. :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: i should do it. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
My brain tends to work best the day after drinking, have no idea why, but it is like that every time. |
At least it's not during drinking, lol.
Alcohol is a dopamine enhancer and so you could say that the day after is kind of a dopamine crash - so maybe it's all part of the same thing. I know I feel pretty exhausted the day after a bender. |
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