ishueeee(robynne)

Because if the woman who made goddamn Vespertine and Homogenic still has negative reviews get under her skin and ruin her creative process - you will get brainworms too. The human brain is not designed to read so much negative feedback as anything other than a potentially dangerous abandonment by the tribe. And fawning can mean giving what makes your art uniquely yours. In these fear responses, the unconscious walls up. The flow is interrupted.

Fans who don't make art, just consume it - realise this too. Do not 'demand' a sound from a musician, a specific canon ending from an animator, a colour scheme from an illustrator. Art is powerful precisely when it is out of your control, otherwise it lacks the element of surprise.

This applies to artists too - the real creator is your unconscious self, not your ego - who gloats, fights and does a lot of the non-creative work. And you can only access your unconscious when it is safe to do so and when it decides - not using egoic effortful intention. It only comes out in effortless doing.

Because if the woman who made goddamn Vespertine and Homogenic still has negative reviews get under her skin and ruin her creative process - you will get brainworms too. The human brain is not designed to read so much negative feedback as anything other than a potentially dangerous abandonment by the tribe. And fawning can mean giving what makes your art uniquely yours. In these fear responses, the unconscious walls up. The flow is interrupted.

Fans who don't make art, just consume it - realise this too. Do not 'demand' a sound from a musician, a specific canon ending from an animator, a colour scheme from an illustrator. Art is powerful precisely when it is out of your control, otherwise it lacks the element of surprise.

This applies to artists too - the real creator is your unconscious self, not your ego - who gloats, fights and does a lot of the non-creative work. And you can only access your unconscious when it is safe to do so and when it decides - not using egoic effortful intention. It only comes out in effortless doing.

The more I rely on music to pay for my healthcare, the less selfish I feel I am allowed to be. This is why the 90's "slacker" who innovates a genre has all but disappeared. Many innovate artists now come from places which still have a semblance of a welfare state, and easy indirect funding (like Iceland).

Pay artists - buy from bandcamp and physical mediums/merch. Artists - join a union, for the sake of your creative potential (I am part of the MEAA). Starving artists are the ones least likely to innovate.

long time no see :-)

Who would you say are your biggest influences when it comes to making music?

Also,which DAW do you use?And when did you start making your own music?

to making , Daniel Johnston , Chris Watson, Alan Lomax,, really anyone who makes and collects and can’t stop making and collecting.

I use Logic, mastering on Reaper, usually. Sunvox occasionally for strange things