An experiment.

+ID is going to soon be undergoing some changes as I try out some new formats. For the next couple months +ID will primarily have content pertaining to the creation and performance of electronic music in an attempt to see what sort of interest there is in the subject and what sorts of good information I can bring to the blogosphere. I’ll post an introduction a bit later that will put it all in perspective. Don’t worry, it’ll all make sense.

Ira Glass On Storytelling

A bit of advice for those of us who live in the creative equatorial doldrums.

more about “Ira Glass on Storytelling #3″, posted with vodpod

Regaining Creative Impetus

So I’m basically empty and tired and used up at the moment and have no creative fuel (despite the constant inner demand for product). So, I’m researching articles and blog posts on what to do when you’re all worn out. Here they are:

When It Just Isn’t Fun Anymore – Recharging Your Creative Batteries

Ways to recharge your batteries at work

Top Ten Ways to Recharge Your Creative Batteries

Recharging your creative batteries

What I’m most guilty of.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine
picture every day of his life, in order that worldy cares may not
obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the
human soul.

Natalie Goldberg , author

The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you’re
able to let life meet life. If you’re having difficulty coming up with
new ideas, then slow down …Creativity exists in the present moment.
You can’t find it anywhere else.

I’m not the only one I guess.

Saul Bellow

The writer’s art appears to seek a compensation for the hopelessness or meanness of existence. (NYT 4/05)

What art is.

Saul Bellow
…Only art penetrates what pride, passion, intelligence and habit
erect on all sides – the seeming realities of this world. There is
another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other
reality is always sending us hints, which, without art , we can’t
receive. Proust calls these hints our “true impressions.” The true
impressions, our persistent intuitions, will, without art , be hidden
from us and we will be left with nothing but a “terminology for
practical ends which we falsely call life.”

—On science and art from his Nobel lecture in 1976

New song, FWIW

So I finished a song for the first time in five years and well, it ain’t great, and you can clearly tell that I had absolutely had enough of working on it, but it’s something, right? Click here.

It’s entitled “Quieting the Devils” and will auto play. There’s other and older stuff there as well.