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Re: ART Regular Output vs. Inspiration



In '67 the kind of amps we wanted were "big amps!" lol

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: ART Regular Output vs. Inspiration


> Hey bro,
> excellent topic Rick ma man!
>I remember when i was younger only caring about my guitar,my 3 
>pedals(chorus,distortion,delay)and >not even my amp that much(i would 
>settle with anything that would amplify my guitar;-) >
>
>
> www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
>
>
> --- On Sat, 11/29/08, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>
>> Subject: ART Regular Output  vs. Inspiration
>> To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>> Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 3:56 PM
>> I heard of a study years ago that I quote to my students all
>> the time.
>> I heard about this study 2nd or 3rd hand and never actually
>> read about it
>> and it occurs to me that my telling of it changes slightly
>> each time I tell it
>> and it might be good to go back and read about the original
>> study so I can
>> be more accurate in my quoting.
>>
>> This may be woefully different than the original (and all
>> apologies to academics that
>> I might offend with my rather primal and unsophisticated
>> oral history approach that I use telling it
>> but it is at least illustrative in it's 'big
>> yarn' version.
>>
>> I'd love it if someone could direct me to the original
>> study!!!!
>>
>> .  I've googled it without a lot of success.
>> (oh Richard Zvonar, where are you my researching genius
>> brother)
>>
>> For what it's worth, it goes something like this:
>>
>> Some Art professors at Stanford University did a study
>> where they took a large number
>> of visual artists (I think 150 but I"m not sure) and
>> for one year they separated them equally into
>> to distinct camps.
>>
>> The 75 artists from Camp number ONE were told that they
>> could create purely from inspiration...............not
>> fearing a bad grade
>> if they didn't have a large
>> output....................'just follow your heart'
>> they were enjoined and only create when
>> you are inpsired.
>>
>> The 75 artists from Camp number TWO were told that they had
>> to turn in a finished piece of work on a weekly basis,
>> whether they were inspired or
>> not.   Whatever it was it had to be finished and it had to
>> be a constant weekly output.
>>
>> At the end of one year, they took all the artwork together
>> and randomized it;  giving it to several prominent art
>> critics to
>> critique and rate the art.
>>
>> Amazingly and consistently,   the artwork from Camp TWO
>> (constant output with our without inspiration)  was judged
>> to
>> be 'better art'  than the artwork of Camp ONE
>> (inspiration without necessary constant output).
>>
>> *******************
>> In the year 2000,  I decided, after hearing about this
>> study, that I was going to attempt a full legnth CD a year
>> for the rest of my life.
>> I was successful for the first four years of the decade and
>> my output has fallen off considerably since then (though I
>> have 6 completely
>> different CD projects in various forms of completion
>> because I also gave my self permission not to worry about
>> style in my creativity but
>> to constantly make music and finish individual pieces.
>>
>> Before that, I had made 3 really perfectionistic released
>> recordings in my life over the previous 20
>> years..............I was very proud of all
>> of those recordings.
>> But in returning to those CDs, as much as I think I did the
>> best I could, artistically,  I realize looking back that
>> they were just who I was at the time:
>> works in progress, as it were.
>>
>> In retrospect, I look back on the first eight years of this
>> decade with that production output philosphy behind me that
>> I have grown at a vastly more
>> rapid pace in my abilities and in my sohpistication as a
>> musician because I started to join the Camp TWO approach.
>>
>> Ironically,  I've also discovered that the instances of
>> very creative 'inspirational' output has gone up
>> significantly using this approach so I think I"m
>> getting
>> the best of both worlds.
>>
>> The only drawback I can see using this approach is that it
>> makes it more difficult to market oneself to the world at
>> large because this approach
>> encourages a lot of stylistic diversity which makes it
>> tough for people to categorize your recordings in record
>> stores and online.
>> I think , though,  that I"ve reconciled myself to that
>> anyway.
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