Get the Musical Mojo Back

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My latest post for SCORECastOnline is up now: How to Get Your Mojo Back

This month’s theme on SCORECastOnline, the very cool site for film music composers, sound designers, and others in the same line of work, was Creativity, and more specifically the creative process.

There’s some fantastic posts on there on what was rather a tricky but fascinating concept to pin down.

I particularly enjoyed The Yin and Yang of the Creative Process, by Jim Well.

Jim eloquently describes the two diametrically opposed, but mutually dependent, traits of the media composer – the imaginative, creative formation of ideas followed by the realisation of those ideas through technical skills and practical processes.

Another incredibly insightful and useful post was A-List Film Composer Habits for Any-List Film Schedules.

This describes some of the thorough and detailed groundwork that goes on behind the scenes to enable the initial creative spark, such as the ‘Overture Blueprint’, research, ethnomusicology, limited instrument palettes and time-saving strategies. Very useful stuff.

And, as for mine, it was a pretty cathartic write.

Sometimes, creative burnout strikes… this is my experience of it, and more importantly, how to get out of the doldrums and back in the game. This is how to get your creative, musical mojo back.

A few questions that I’d like to pose to you…

What’s your creative process?

Have you ever experienced ‘creative burnout’?

What did you do that helped or hindered the burnout experience?

What did you learn from the process?

It would be lovely to hear your thoughts either on these here comments below or over on the SCORECastOnline site.