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Agree with Sjaak... CT-Collective is the best Camp II you can enroll. I use it to create those extra deadlines that push me into danger zone. Good campfire for learning ... nice post Rick, as usual. 2008/11/30, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>: > I heard of a study years ago that I quote to my students all the time. > I heard about this study 2nd or 3rd hand and never actually read about it > and it occurs to me that my telling of it changes slightly each time I > tell it > and it might be good to go back and read about the original study so I >can > be more accurate in my quoting. > > This may be woefully different than the original (and all apologies to > academics that > I might offend with my rather primal and unsophisticated oral history > approach that I use telling it > but it is at least illustrative in it's 'big yarn' version. > > I'd love it if someone could direct me to the original study!!!! > > . I've googled it without a lot of success. > (oh Richard Zvonar, where are you my researching genius brother) > > For what it's worth, it goes something like this: > > Some Art professors at Stanford University did a study where they took a > large number > of visual artists (I think 150 but I"m not sure) and for one year they > separated them equally into > to distinct camps. > > The 75 artists from Camp number ONE were told that they could create > purely from inspiration...............not fearing a bad grade > if they didn't have a large output....................'just follow your > heart' they were enjoined and only create when > you are inpsired. > > The 75 artists from Camp number TWO were told that they had to turn in a > finished piece of work on a weekly basis, whether they were inspired or > not. Whatever it was it had to be finished and it had to be a constant > weekly output. > > At the end of one year, they took all the artwork together and > randomized it; giving it to several prominent art critics to > critique and rate the art. > > Amazingly and consistently, the artwork from Camp TWO (constant output > with our without inspiration) was judged to > be 'better art' than the artwork of Camp ONE (inspiration without > necessary constant output). > > ******************* > In the year 2000, I decided, after hearing about this study, that I was > going to attempt a full legnth CD a year for the rest of my life. > I was successful for the first four years of the decade and my output > has fallen off considerably since then (though I have 6 completely > different CD projects in various forms of completion because I also gave > my self permission not to worry about style in my creativity but > to constantly make music and finish individual pieces. > > Before that, I had made 3 really perfectionistic released recordings in > my life over the previous 20 years..............I was very proud of all > of those recordings. > But in returning to those CDs, as much as I think I did the best I > could, artistically, I realize looking back that they were just who I > was at the time: > works in progress, as it were. > > In retrospect, I look back on the first eight years of this decade with > that production output philosphy behind me that I have grown at a vastly > more > rapid pace in my abilities and in my sohpistication as a musician > because I started to join the Camp TWO approach. > > Ironically, I've also discovered that the instances of very creative > 'inspirational' output has gone up significantly using this approach so > I think I"m getting > the best of both worlds. > > The only drawback I can see using this approach is that it makes it more > difficult to market oneself to the world at large because this approach > encourages a lot of stylistic diversity which makes it tough for people > to categorize your recordings in record stores and online. > I think , though, that I"ve reconciled myself to that anyway. > > -- The Playing Orchestra: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/tpo Chain Tape Collective: http://www.ct-collective.com TPO at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theplayingorchestra TPO at Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com