Workshop: Practice Creativity and Produce Music with More Ease
Let’s explore how you relate to your creative work, not just how you organize it and technically produce it. This workshop is both a facilitated conversation about creativity and an introduction to practical frameworks for making music with greater ease and authenticity. The emphasis will be on creating music authentically and effortlessly – understanding how to relate to your unique creativity rather than force it (to be like someone else’s practice). We’ll start by sharing our creative stories and current challenges, then dive into how to practice creativity with the EASE approach – a fourfold way towards creatively flourishing. We’ll share a little about our processes for creating music. Then you’ll learn a process to organize music production work by what needs attention in the present moment. We’ll explore how different music production tasks benefit from different types of effort, concentration, and decision-making. Of course, we’ll share what software systems we use to produce our music. You might be inspired to consider how your system can better support your creative process and music production tasks. After this workshop, you’ll know at least one path, process, and system for approaching your creative work with less struggle and more flow. Most importantly, you’ll connect with other musicians interested in making music with more ease and creativity.
Agenda
- Welcome and introductions (30 minutes)
- Our practices for being creatives (30 minutes)
- Our processes for creating music (30 minutes)
- Our tools for creative music production (30 minutes
- Wrapup (15 minutes/optional)
Workshop Handouts
Handout 2: The EASE Approach to Creative Flourishing
Handout 3: Skillful Practices for Creative Work
Handout 4: Task-Based Process for Creating Music
Handout 5: Attention Practices by Music Production Tasks
Handout 6: Systems for Task-Based Music Production
Handout 7: My DAW System by Task