[LAU] Re: My 'works in progress' made with linux

[Ken Restivo]

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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:34:55PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:46:44PM -0400, julien bodd wrote:
> > 
> > >Maybe you work and function very differently from me ... but if not,
> > >you should pick one track and pull it through or you will never be
> > >able to call anything finished. While nothing ever has to be finished,
> > >being able to put if off the table is relieving, I think :)
> > >--
> > >Thorsten Wilms
> > 
> > Here is the point! In fact, I just like to play, to express myself, my
> > daily feelings. It is very hard for me to actually start really
> > working on some tracks. Putting them online is the first step towards
> > that process. I want them to be better, continued, finalized..but I
> > cannot find the motivation! This is sad ! haha. It is kind of boring
> > to work on an existing song. But I have to do that.
> 
> Yeah. My experience is that starting a new project is easy. All tends  
> to run smoothly until I have a number of loops/parts. Then it starts 
> to feel like work more and more.
> 
> But the end run tends to feel good again. If it's done, I'm relieved, 
> even though sometimes I'm unsure about the result :)
> 
> So my motivation is to be done with it, to have something I can present, 
> to be able to pat me on my own shoulders and to be able to pick up 
> something else without a  nagging feeling.
> 
> Of course, I do have a big collection of unfinished material, so I wasn't 
> always succesfull ... :)
> 
> 

The collaboration sites might be an interesting way out of this, uploading stuff to ccmixter, jamglue, etc.

For example, this gal uploaded her vocal tracks and this whole record was made by people on the internet remixing it:
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/debenedictis-mixterone/ (alas, no Linux here, I don't think).

- -ken
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