what's the key to making interesting, groundbreaking music?

>>68913098
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>>68913098
Not stealing it

>>68913098
macbook + drugs + mental illness + internet access + consuming all types of Art whether good or bad + emotionless relationships with your partner(james has said this on record) = groundbreaking music

>>68913098
LSD, DMT, Mushrooms

>>68913098
f minor

>>68913098
-Read a lot
-Take Drugs
-Get heavily invested in hardware/software machines
-Let everyone know how good you are
-Worship the devil to a new level
-Practice daily
-Question the rules and make your own rules/concepts

Do a few of these things and you'll be like prince

>>68913098
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>>68913098
take different things (ie russian music + dubstep + angolan kizomba) put them together, choose a wacky aesthetic, profit

>>68913098
the key to making interesting, groundbreaking music is the ability to first be able to simply make music. groundbreaking comes after years of practice and experimentation. it's a gradual/ natural process. thats why you hear all these bandcamp kids who dont understand why nobody will listen to their albums. It's because they're focusing too heavily on trying to be the next Ferraro or Beefheart or whoever before theyve even mastered the generic beat or learned how to play guitar.

Experimentation is not an alternative to conventional competence. James Ferraro was probably making crappy generic beats for years before he started making something interesting.

>>68913098
not relying on a key

>>68913211
>James Ferraro was probably making crappy generic beats for years before he started making something interesting.
this is what ppl don't understand
the residents and all these "avant garde" guys spent years being the most generic bands

>>68913124
>emotionless relationships with your partner(james has said this on record
sauce?

>>68913098
Not being this man.

>>68913235
>Well that IS dark. Did you grow up in the Upper East Side, hence the song title on the new album that probably makes your girlfriend in LA grimace (“Upper East Side Pussy”)?
Ha. Definitely didn’t grow up in the UES. That’d be cool tho…That title is about a relationship I had a few years ago. It was a really cold, sexual type of relationship. And it was more about the walks I would take around there, sort of sizing up my motivations for being involved in it.
http://www.self-titledmag.com/2013/10/15/a-long-gchat-with-james-ferraro/

>>68913211
he started touring when he was 16 iirc tho

>>68913251
thanks

>>68913098
Not making music for the sole purpose of making money. That's a good starting point.

Study and practice for years.

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>>68913098
being in a certain level of intelligence

>>68913220
>Atonal music
>groundbreaking
Maybe 200 fuckin years ago

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