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cousinotes: Blogging is a lot like improvisation. I don't want to contrive my message. But, if I get some input that strikes me, a comment will flow. All the notes will be a pure expression, some of them may not be pretty.
Some things in life never resolve either. When it all comes together it seems like magic, but it's mostly about being prepared for the opportunity.
TCC: Like art.
cousinotes: Exactly. It's like the story of the kindergarten teachers who were comparing samples of the students artwork. One particular teacher seemed to have many talented youngsters in her class. When asked how she had gotten all her students to create such nice artwork at such an early age she said, "you have to know when to take their crayons away". :)
I'm also reminded of a producers panel at a music conference a couple years ago when George Massenburg was asked what he thought was the most important concept for a producer to have to be successful in a studio recording project, and his answer was the same idea. He said, you can't go into tracking and allow the artist to have too much creativity, - basically he thought preproduction on the recording project had to be about eliminating variables and framing the sessions a bit. Otherwise, you just have creative people going wild. (Ha! Creative People Gone Wild).
Alas, possibly your plight in this, [TCC, is] taking my crayons away through intelligent editing.
TCC: In fact, I like the idea of been an intelligent editor at Fuzz a lot. THAT is what framing is all about.
Thinking about my interview with cousinotes some more, I feel that what every artist is trying to do is a bit of intelligent editing and framing - just enough to be heard on this side of the abyss.
Artist are, indeed, the stout-hearted evangelists of the possible. And, importantly, the best of them understand that the most compelling of their work is all about editing and framing so they can bring back to show us what they found when they were alone in the wild.
