MUSIC THOUGHTS FROM ANDREW LLOYD FRY
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAKING ART
We dream of art validating our identity
This is an illusion
Most of the time we will not receive extravagant praise
And when we do it just makes us want it more
Like drinking water but you just keep more thirsty
We are special because we make art
This is a lie
Because our unique humanity/specialness is so much deeper than what we make
This is a super shallow definition of what makes a human worthy
We feel like if people reject what we make they are rejecting us
This is a lie
In sharing art
The default mode is self focus
I want praise
The healthy mode is I am a servant and I want this to bless you
Why does making art feel so embarrassing for adults
It seems to be a underlying expectation that if you are an adult making something
You are a professional and if your not thats embarrassing
This is a lie
At our core we want love
Making art is not the way to get it
It is a way to give love
We are free when our identities are not on the line
When we don’t give other people the power to tell us who we are
By their response to the things we created
DAILY RITUALS
I love Mason Curry’s book daily rituals. If I was in it this is what it would say.
7:00-8:00 wake up
8:00-9:00 breakfast and coffee
9:00-9:30 time with kids
9:30-10:00 prayer
10:00-12:00 compose/write
12:00-1:00 lunch
1:00-3:00 time with kids/practical/clean
3:00-4:00 Feka
4:00-8:00 teach piano lessons
8:00-10:00 eat/family time/read/tea/listen to music
THE ADVENT OF RECORDED MUSIC
It is strange how recorded music has forever altered our experience and relationship with music. We are saturated with it more than ever before and in equal and inverse proportions listening with less and less attention.
It is strange how recorded music has forever altered our experience and relationship with music. We are saturated with it more than ever before and in equal and inverse proportions listening with less and less attention. If feels as if we have traded an in person conversation for a long distance phone call, that is going on all day, while we are trying to cook, clean, talk to other people, drive, work, ect.
For me it’s defiantly something I am thankful for as 98% of the music I have listened to and enjoy is recorded but it has its hidden curse. And the curse is this, when supply is plentiful it drives down the value, less value equals less attention, with less attention comes less hearing, till some point in the future we will no longer have the capacity to hear it any more.