< Rediscovering Music

~tlf

I always wondered if playing music so much killed my interest. I don't mind it, but it's about as interesting as listening to the wrong blowing these days. I used to love it.

Good that you've got it back again because as much as we might not miss it, if nothing replaces it it can feel like a loss.

On the tech side - I tried Ardour, Jack, Hydrogen and the usual suspects but it wasn't until I bought a proprietary setup that I was freed up enough to get creative. That's just me though.

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~lxkraken wrote (thread):

For me, it has always been about working with other musicians to make something great. The sad fact of the matter is that there are fewer musicians today than there were in the nineties. Music simply isn't as culturally important to people today.

With regards to music tech, "this kicks my ass" is always more important than the proprietary vs FOSS debate. Always take the path of least technical resistance to doing what you enjoy creatively. In my case it just happens to be using Ubuntu Studio.

I'm not even sure why I was so disinterested in music during all of these years, especially considering how involved I was and how I considered it "my life " when I was younger. During the dead years time, I felt very much like it was easily reproduced nonsense used to sell things and nothing more. However, I had felt that way before I completely pulled away from playing entirely all of those years ago.

Something changed in me. Not too sure what it is though ... yet. ;)