Oh hey hi, this post is a "personal" post. It doesn't involve any code or analogies to writing software (that I'm aware of) so yeah.....
Many many years ago (well about 9 or 10) I went through a period of "being a singer/song-writer". There was no intention of making money or even playing live - I can barely speak to people I don't know let alone "perform" in front of them (though I can waffle about technical stuff Ad nauseam - oh the irony) - I just felt compelled to record some noise.
Experiment #1
The first time I did it was for my sister, a born and bred muso, as a birthday present - she had moved to London a few years ago and I wrote a song about her being always "busy".
The quality is clearly terrible, the song is clearly terrible, I am clearly terrible. But dear readers - hello - this is me. Was me.
Anyway. I quite liked the process of recording - one maybe, two takes, no editing. I hated hearing my voice and shambling guitar but I did like the fact something existed that I created.
Experiment #2
After that I did a little experiment. The idea was this
- Drink for an hour
- Record an hour of music (one take)
- Drink for an hour
- Record an hour of music (one take)
- 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 follow a similar pattern.
That was awesome because it was, for me, kind of wild and cool and if I ever put any thought into anything I hate it.
Experiment #3
Also out of the previous process I got enough rough recording to do an Extended Play of music I genuinely like to this day.
This was a cathartic post - I did things, and yeah I do things.