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A propos #offlinealbum …I thought for a long time about why the reception (or lack thereof) of my music sometimes doesn't bother me at all and other times frustrates the hell out of me.

It seems that I have two fundamentally distinct modes of making #music

Mode 1 is the producer mode. I feel I have a story to tell, and I do my very best to do exactly that. I don't rest before it's as perfect as I can possibly make it. And once it's done, I want people to hear it.

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#music #musicproduction #offlinealbum
Schall und Stille
#malershüs had its majority of tracks done in "producer mode". Not all tracks, but many. I wanted to tell a story. Which probably explains why its initial reception really got me down.

Mode 2 is "spontaneous artistic eruption mode" – there is something inside me that comes out (most of the times, very surprisingly), and I couldn't care less if it goes under in a wave of bad fascist news and cute cat pictures, because it would have come out anyway.

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#malershus
Schall und Stille
Both "The Drunken Fisherman" and "Biike" had their majority of tracks created in this mode, which probably explains why I was perfectly fine with what I got.

For the #offlinealbum I try to work in mode 2 as much as I can (which is not to say that the stuff I do in mode 1 is worth less, or that it's the "wrong" way of making music. It's just not very healthy for me. I'm very proud of it, and as long as there is feedback, like it was on #fedivision, it wasn't a problem for me to do it).

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Langile, Non_Saturatio
Makes sense, yes. Once a lifepartner accused (yes, accused! 🤭) me of creating from the flesh, as a compulsion. Of course he was right in a big part. It doesn't mean I haven't cried and sweated to bring things to life when the compulsion is not present. But when it's there... When you must go you must go, and going to the bathroom is reward enough (sorry for the parallelism).

The balance is possible anyway, and I'm very pleased to see that offline album is flying.
Schall und Stille
aaaah, a pee-pee parallel… love it!! 😂
sknob ⏚
most of my stuff is in « producer mode » as you put it, and of course, I’m happy when I get positive feedback and disappointed when I don’t. But…

It took me a long time to come to believe and accept that it is virtually impossible to convince anyone of anything, ever.

What you produce is only going to intersect the path of people who have decided on their own to question things and who are open to different answers or other points of view and perspectives.

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sknob ⏚
And unfortunately, that amounts to a tiny percentage of the population it seems.

I still think it’s worth it, because it doesn’t take a lot of people to change things meaningfully, it helps people who are receptive not to feel totally isolated, and it does contribute to change, even if it’s only locally and indirectly, and that’s really the best we can do, realistically anyway…

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Schall und Stille
no, of course, I don't want to convince anyone of anything. That's not the goal, and I'm not on a mission 🙂

But when I, for example, create songs about the souls I meet at the sanctuary, and what resonates in me… hell, I can't help it, I want people to listen to this. And I know it will break my heart if they don't.

That's the reason why I can't take that chance at the moment.
sknob ⏚
I meant in the general sense of convincing others to open their minds or their hearts to something somebody else has to share, but yes, I understand completely. The closer to one’s heart, the harder it is to distance oneself. 💙
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