Rules for creating music today:

• Writing material is not the same as creating a piece.
• If you start writing without knowing what you are doing, you are not in the process of writing a piece.
• There is no reason for writing a piece in three movements.
• People who don't like playing a certain type music should not do so.
• People who don't like playing a certain type of music should not charge other people for hearing it.
• If you only play classical music by dead composers, you have to be aware that you are working in a museum.
• Playing a piece technically well has more to do with sport than art.
• A piece that was created in 1816 is less relevant to today's society than a piece created in 2016.
• If you repeat something because it worked before you are making a commercial decision, not an artistic one.
• Imagining how an audience would respond is patronising.
• Putting on a programme that you think people will like is patronising.
• Poems should not be set to music. It has never been a good idea.
• If you are concerned with colour when writing music you're a decorator.
• to be continued

sad

Ultimately, writing music makes me sad.
I try my best, but even if the music is good, it distances me more from everyone.

so lonely

When you don't belong to any group, you're an outsider. It's a great position to create art from. You can observe things properly and evaluate them properly.
But you get lonely. You get used to be lonely when making art. That's ok. It's actually quite fun because you're not really alone. It's quality time with your material.
But then comes the day when suddenly you realise that because you're an outsider you don't have any support in those organisations that give out money. You keep applying for funding for new things but it's getting harder and harder when you have the feeling that your ideas are getting better and better. What seems to be happening is that you in all your outsider-ness are more and more drifting apart from the people who finance art projects. That's proper loneliness, on your own, not belonging AND split from the funders. So, what do you do? If you continue being true to your work, you stay in the loneliest place in the world. I was just thinking about the other possibilities, but the only other possibility I can think of is to stop making art and do something else...

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