Re: Re: How often do you listen to your own music?

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Once I've really finished a piece,  I tend not to listen to it at all 
for a long, long time.

This has changed in a couple of circumstances in the last few years, 
however, as I'm self consciously trying
to make a video for almost everything I compose, musically (except for 
singer/songwriter or pop material).

Also,  I'm contemplating a project called Self Plagiarism  where I'm 
going back to music I recorded a long time
ago (and before my forays into electronic music and live looping) and 
trying to find interesting loops
out of that material to compose new material.   I figure I don't have to 
worry about sample rights if I own the material.


Because of that,  I'm going back and systematically listening to tracks 
I've recorded over the last 30 years to
find things that are interesting to me, still.

Just yesterday,  I took a track that my brother Bill and I played with 
the original incarnation of Worlds Collide....
a track called Silent Spring and slowed the entire track down about 25%.

The whole track is really beautiful played like this.................a 
simple remix but a nice one.
I'll post that soon (it was co-written by Gary Regina, Kevin Moore and 
Ernie Provencher, Bill and Myself) and is
on the CD,  "Everything's Changing in the Global Village",  a 1990 
release as memory serves.

I think it is particularly efficacious to finish a mix and then come 
back a week later and listen to
it 'cold'  so that you have some objective distance from the actual 
making, mixing and mastering process
which can get quite obsessive and , consequently,  musically 'myopic'.

rick walker
> *Subject:* How often do you listen to your own music?
>
> I guess this is a rather odd question but I'm curious. Do you only 
> listen to it for improvement? Or do you enjoy listening to yourself 
> just as you would listen to an artist you like?