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2026-07-26 22:25 UTC

@sknob@mamot.fr @prinlu@0x.trans.fail @bazkie@beige.party I’m coming from quite a distant part of the musical universe, so feel free to take or leave anything I say, depending on its usefulness to you. Sometimes when I’ve felt in a creative rut, or like I’m relying on the same bag of tricks too much, I’ll just forbid myself to use them, and see what else I can come up with.

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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-07-26 22:35

@bazkie@beige.party What if you tried, as an exercise, to make something with no loops at all? Just open-ended, where once it starts it can go anywhere except back to where it started. Just as a thought experiment, how might you approach that? Even if you don’t go through with it or keep the result, maybe it can help you past the obstacle you mentioned. @sknob@mamot.fr @prinlu@0x.trans.fail

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@mcmullin@musicians.today 2026-07-27 19:49

@sknob@mamot.fr @prinlu@0x.trans.fail @bazkie@beige.party The piece I posted today is a prime example of this. I felt like I was writing the same kinds of harmonies too much, and falling into personal cliches. So I wrote a percussion piece where harmony of any kind, or even specific pitches, would not be an option. I couldn’t rely on any those techniques and habits, so it would have to hang together some other way. https://musicians.today/@mcmullin/116993426893392991

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