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I was on a pretty steady path to rise through the corporate live music world but I quit because I was burned out, unwell and ready to take a good crack at being an artist. Sometimes I feel like I made a mistake letting go of a good salary and a good title but I felt horrible all of the time and working in it made me start to resent music. Music is my one true love so this is a non-negotiable. Now I'm working in the cafe bar at my favourite independent cinema (I get FREE FILMS!!!) and I'm volunteering once a week for my favourite second hand music shop that sells records and instruments and everything I like (I get FIRST PICK OF ALL THE GOOD STUFF!!!)
I feel like when you're a competent person it's easy to lose sight of what you actually enjoy and just chase what people direct you to because you're good at it. Sticking to what you love feels like a good situation to be in.
2d ago
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‼️perspective to offer:
it’s cliché, but i’ve found that working in the music industry HAS put a bit of a damper on my relationship with it.
i didn’t realize this until this past year, but it’s very easy to pursue every opportunity to either generate income/make connections…. even opportunities that don’t thoroughly align with your personal ethos—things that don’t excite you artistically
so i offer a word of caution; should you choose to go this route, protect your love for your practice ❤️
so i offer a word of caution; should you choose to go this route, protect your love for your practice ❤️
Feb 11, 2024
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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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🎹started in middle school wanting to be skrillex and made some heinous dubstep, got way too heady about music theory and wanted to be machinedrum for a bit to flex that I knew other time signatures than just 4/4, then i went to college to study music and realized music theory is actually dumb and 4/4 is sick and I wanted to be kaytranada and make the simplest lil house tunes to dance to, then a friend from college and I shared our love for 80s new wave music and John Hughes movies and we made some fun synthpop to play at an 80s prom night as our senior capstone project, then that friend and I graduated in the pandemic together and made depressed synthpop that we were way too heady about because we needed to prove that our music degrees were valuable and that we didn’t waste our time in undergrad and that we weren’t failures as artists, then I moved away because having a music degree in NYC in the pandemic got you no jobs and shelved music for a while because I felt like a failure, got into early digital production from the 80s and got sick of working with plug ins and switched to synths and drum machines instead, figured out what post-music degree life looked like for me and moved again for grad school to get an MBA so I could actually get jobs on the business side of music, then I covered a Todd Rundgren song with a friend that I met at grad school to represent establishing a healthier relationship to my music now that it wasn’t tied to my self worth/career and just generally being on a better path in life. now I just make weird synthy stuff for fun and only release music when I care enough about a song to finish it
TLDR I listened to skrillex once and now i’m studying finance because I’ll never live out my fantasy of actually being him
TLDR I listened to skrillex once and now i’m studying finance because I’ll never live out my fantasy of actually being him
May 4, 2024
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🗓1. Don't set an alarm and wake up naturally. Snooze for however long you want to, it's okay
2. Have breakfast. For me it's toast. Have it with butter/jam/honey and a lot of water and coffee and juice.
3. Listen to an album in full and do some puzzles until it ends. I like to stick a record on and do the nyt games (connections, then wordle, then the mini, then I'm ready for a crossword)
4. Shower and use all your best stuff. Smell great. Make your hair feel soft.
5. Wear an outfit you don't get to wear that often. I tend to wear the same thing over and over at work so I wear something a bit more fun and less practical.
6. Go outside. I live near a road with secondhand shops that are great browsing but quite tempting on a budget. To beat the temptation just look in the windows and then walk round the streets or to a green space if it's a nice day. Walk as fast or as slow as you like. Try and spot cats that might let you stroke them. See how each place you go smells different. Walk down streets that you've not been down before just because.
7. Come home and decide how much energy you have. If you have energy do an activity (I would write, play an instrument, do some art, read, play a game) if you don't then watch something from your watchlist. Saturdays feel like a good day to watch something new.
8. Cook yourself a meal. Start before you're hungry and spend ages on it. Use every pot. Listen to music. Sing whilst you wash the dishes.
9. Play! Video games, board games, internet games, card games, phone games, rearrange your plushies, embrace your inner child. Play with ideas, experiment with felt tip pens, write a limerick. Get silly with it.
10. Talk to your friends. Invite them over, call somebody up, text that person back you didn't have time to. I like to spend a good day off by myself then have a great time talking to people after I've recharged.
11. Have so much fun getting to do whatever you want you fall asleep at whatever time. Monday - Friday is about appeasing your body clock, Saturdays are for filthy pleasures like falling asleep at 3am because you were too busy flirting or reading or watching videos.
