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Per, as usual you are right on target.
The math, indeed, does not work out. I'm not saying
that I don't lament my amature status... I'd love to
be able to be paid for what I do. I do compose
little bits and loops for the media work I do for a
living, but it's a tiny portion.
I've managed becaues I have a talent in the visual
arts that lends itself to graphic design and animation
for web and video. Luck has it that I've landed a
decent job that rarely makes me work more than 40
hours a week. Do I get to play as much as I like?
Not at all. On the plus side of that is that I really
enjoy my time in my studio and it never gets old.
Mostly, I find what keeps me out of the studio is not
my work, but myself. Procrastination... fear...
laziness... a combo... As much as I love it I have to
work to make sure I do it.
Mark
--- Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote:
>
> > Mark Sottilaro wrote:
> >
> > "Why is anyone here concerned with how we get our
> money?
> > If you loop and you love it, that's all that
> matters."
>
>
> Because we can learn from each other about how to
> organize a good
> life as a creative musician!
>
> --> If you choose the amateur path:
> There is a constant conflict between time invested
> in your creative
> art and time invested in getting money. As an
> amateur you might one
> day face a limit when you realize that you can not
> develop your
> artistic skills much further under the restriction
> of a "daytime job
> life situation".
> Going pro may look as an easy way to solve that
> conflict.
>
> --> I you choose the pro path:
> There is a constant conflict between having to
> fulfill business
> obligations and the need to dedicate quality time
> into the creative
> arts (after all, that is "the product" that business
> relies on). You
> might start to fear that you won't be able to hold
> out and "stay true
> to your art".
> Going amateur may look as an easy way to solve that
> conflict.
>
> As you see, this is a bizarre dilemma! The maths
> doesn't work out.
> Personally I'm always eager to hear about how others
> manage to make a
> living, especially when interested in obscure styles
> that doesn't
> automatically call for investors. My own
> "workaround" is to work in
> many other areas that are related to performing and
> composing; like
> offering lectures in music, writing books and
> articles on music or
> producing recordings of music.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.looproom.com (international)
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> ---> iTunes Music Store (digital)
> www.cdbaby.com/perboysen
>
>
>
>
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