"sound" advice...ug, sorry, shoot me. But, really, I appreciate this...I struggle with losing settings and I'm not sure how to replicate a lot of the sounds that I make, not to mention remembering how to play the songs. It's especially a challenge with analog hardware semi-modular stuff that I use with no presets...will take pictures and record a lot while working, but I don't catalog or organize enough.
In Chapter 1 of DGN you say "For experimental artists, the goal is often quite different. While the process of creating still ends with a finished work of some sort, the end result is generally unknown."
In Chapter 2 you say "It’s a good idea to set goals. Goals let us know where we’re going and when we’ve arrived."
Perhaps "goaliness" should be considered to run along a spectrum from non-experimental to experimental, moving from goal-driven to no-goal-driven respectively. And, of course, in between these extremes you have varying degrees of goaliness. Your use of the word "generally" in the quote above seems to align with this idea. I would argue that a purely experimental approach, if even possible short of being enlightened, is incompatible with having any goal at all.
Thanks for your comment. Again, I think the important distinction is between product and process. An experimental approach can let go of any goal or expectation related to the product being created, the artifact. However, with regards to process itself, simply sitting down with the intent to create implies a goal (or as you said, short of being enlightened, it's likely impossible).
Specifically with regards to chapter 2, I think I was speaking more to the development of a practice than to any instance of a creative session. Without any direction whatsoever, you risk stagnation or sense of progress, as well as option anxiety (blank page syndrome) within a creative session.
I totally get the process/product dichotomy and suspected your choice of the word "goal" in Chapter 2 was in the context of overall "productivity" as opposed to session-specific "product".
"sound" advice...ug, sorry, shoot me. But, really, I appreciate this...I struggle with losing settings and I'm not sure how to replicate a lot of the sounds that I make, not to mention remembering how to play the songs. It's especially a challenge with analog hardware semi-modular stuff that I use with no presets...will take pictures and record a lot while working, but I don't catalog or organize enough.
In Chapter 1 of DGN you say "For experimental artists, the goal is often quite different. While the process of creating still ends with a finished work of some sort, the end result is generally unknown."
In Chapter 2 you say "It’s a good idea to set goals. Goals let us know where we’re going and when we’ve arrived."
Perhaps "goaliness" should be considered to run along a spectrum from non-experimental to experimental, moving from goal-driven to no-goal-driven respectively. And, of course, in between these extremes you have varying degrees of goaliness. Your use of the word "generally" in the quote above seems to align with this idea. I would argue that a purely experimental approach, if even possible short of being enlightened, is incompatible with having any goal at all.
Thanks for your comment. Again, I think the important distinction is between product and process. An experimental approach can let go of any goal or expectation related to the product being created, the artifact. However, with regards to process itself, simply sitting down with the intent to create implies a goal (or as you said, short of being enlightened, it's likely impossible).
Specifically with regards to chapter 2, I think I was speaking more to the development of a practice than to any instance of a creative session. Without any direction whatsoever, you risk stagnation or sense of progress, as well as option anxiety (blank page syndrome) within a creative session.
I totally get the process/product dichotomy and suspected your choice of the word "goal" in Chapter 2 was in the context of overall "productivity" as opposed to session-specific "product".