Comments on: What have I become?

By: Nicken

Nicken — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:25:00 +0000

thank you for the comment and kind words.
agree, it feels like less and less people go out and strive for real experience...
if you stumble upon the movie "Mammoth", go watch it. For me it illustrates this topic in a wonderful way:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038043/

By: onlettingo

onlettingo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:54:32 +0000

I absolutely agree, internet life is artificial in the most sense, you're not actually doing anything. If you sit and stare at a screen for all of your life, then it becomes your life, sitting and staring. At one point, after Katrina was hitting the south (I'm in Houston) I wanted to paste a nutri-sweet packet on the back of my phone to remind me how completely fake my communication and life was via my phone. I didn't have any visitors during the storm and I had relied on my phone for outside communication and maintence of relationships, it was absolute shit. Whenever we had evacuated to Austin, all I wanted to do was go out and explore, I hardly picked up my phone. People just don't realize how dependent we are on technology, and how much more dependent we should be on each other. I just stumbeled upon your site, I really love the messages your talking about and the music you're creating, it's outstanding. Thank you for not being normal.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:41:36 +0000

so we need a good and healthy balance between connecting and disconnecting with social media

By: Nicken

Nicken — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:26:55 +0000

well, that's exactly the point. you always deal with ideas of other persons. and since social media is a big filter for only the good ideas and works, you're constantly confronted with brilliant ideas. other people's ideas. it's fine from a consumer-standpoint, but for a person asking: “where am i going” this is the hardest jungle to get through.
nevertheless, for me the solution is: take your inspiration from concerts and “real moments”. make more music than you record music. have these moments again.
and later let other people participate.

back to bachelor-thesis

By: chris

chris — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:21:37 +0000

aaah the internet. our friend, our fiend...well

i understand what you mean (i think). I've been disconnecting the last week, just do get a grip on music again. decreased number of communities, etc, internet shouldnt be leading, but agree: supporting trough distribution.

the connection we have when making music with 3 laptops in person, is not a connection we can have trough a cable. (well the midi power and audio cables are neccesary)..

just like food, music is more then a set of tones, it's the smell of the building the musician is performing in, it's the acoustics, it's the smell of the vinyl, the touch of the vinyl, the buying of the vinyl, the anticipation, something we cannot have trough a cable.

internet gives too much inspiration and it's too instant. yeah actually think it does. with so much music and ideas i sometimes think we lose our own identity. having ideas all the time, but in 5 minutes i'm looking at another site and having another influence or idea that's also good, but forgot to put the last idea into reality. sometimes internet feels like just making a continous journey trough ideas, but not developing my own thing enough.

actually i think we are forgetting that the internet should be a supporting medium, not a lifestyle.

back to music.