{"id":2680,"date":"2014-03-25T07:18:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2014-10-07T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:05:23","slug":"the-barn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/25\/the-barn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all get caught between having creative ideas, yet having extremely limited available time to explore them. To explore some personal creative ideas during an extremely busy time, I decided to give myself a challenge: Create a shortform video in 36 hours, inclusive of shooting, post, and sound.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be the <em>best<\/em> thing ever, but it&#8217;d be a <em>Thing<\/em>. A Thing would be done&#8230;or as done as I could make it. The goal wasn&#8217;t to create the best thing ever&#8230;it was to make <em>something<\/em>. Period. And the time constraint would force concision, hard choices, and provide the constraints needed to be creative.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in <em>The Barn<\/em>. If you&#8217;d like to watch this short video, I&#8217;d prefer you watch this full screen. I&#8217;ll wait right here.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/77306736\" height=\"263\" width=\"580\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Given the focus of this blog, I suppose that I should speak to the music in a little more detail. I conceived, shot, and did a rough edit of the video in about a day. I slept on it, and composed the music the following morning in one session. The soundtrack is influenced by what I&#8217;ve been listening to recently: <a href=\"http:\/\/ethermachines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Frost<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kammarheit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kammarheit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miasmah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Skodvin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miasmah.com\/recordings\/miacd005.html\" target=\"_blank\">Elegi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrilljockey.com\/thrill\/N-meth\/Film#.Uyi-l61dWBg\" target=\"_blank\">Stefan N\u00c3\u00a9meth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bedroomcommunity.net\/artists\/paul_corley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Corley<\/a>, and others. The music started with a sampler patch I created based on me playing my guitar with a cello bow, and some guitar plucks prepared with small magnets. Samples included wood floor creaks and static bursts that I had recorded or generated over the past year. It was created in Logic Pro 9. (<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/77306736\" target=\"_blank\">The description on Vimeo<\/a> addresses more about visuals for those that are interested.)<\/p>\n<p>Could the music be better? More dynamic? More varied? Sure, yes, on all fronts, with no doubt. But this was an exercise in reaching\u00c2\u00a0<em>done<\/em>, a battle against hoping to maybe-sorta start something, and actually making something, warts and all. As they say, &#8220;Better can be the enemy of done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are a bajillion things I&#8217;d like to change, improve, and alter. But in 36 hours &#8211; including decent sleep &#8211; that&#8217;s not important.\u00c2\u00a0The goal was to express an idea with time as the primary constraint. And the goal isn&#8217;t to continue to obsess and tweak this project: It&#8217;s done. Now it&#8217;s time for the next Thing.<\/p>\n<p>I learned a lot from this small project, and will definitely do more 36-hour projects in the future. I relish constraints, even if they are arbitrary: They focus the mind like nothing else, and soothe the Blank Canvas Problem.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome any thoughts, especially on the value of constraints, in the comments below. Thanks for watching and listening. I&#8217;ll return to more typical posts on field design and sound recording in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all get caught between having creative ideas, yet having extremely limited available time to explore them. To explore some personal creative ideas during an extremely busy time, I decided to give myself a challenge: Create a shortform video in 36 hours, inclusive of shooting, post, and sound. 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