Thank you for letting us peak at your creative process! I would like to add that, as a fan, your songs are also tools of wisdom for others, who can process their emotions and better understand some situations through them. I wonder if you can also feel that energy when you perform them? The gratefulness we have for them - and you! - to have helped us?
„On a basic level, as a fan, that’s important to remember - you can’t ever really know what someone wrote something about, how much is fiction and how much is autobiographical.“
This is really important to know and to remember. But to me as fan and listener the most important about a song is indeed what it means to me, what it makes me feel, what it helps me to feel and to understand.
I like the double meaning of „to release“. It just means publishing a song, but it also means, that the composer and the author present the song from their treasure chest to the world to listen to it and to make it their own in their own individual way. And that is great. How does it feel for you to release a song and see the different paths it takes for all its listeners?
Hi Sophie and Michael, thanks for your thoughts. I find that the energy contained within a song changes over time, both changing as it grows older and how I feel changes, but also changing depending on the room that the song is being performed in. I can definitely feel the energy from the people listening - the atmosphere in the room is a kind of culmination of all the emotions of all the people who are standing in it together and what they are projecting onto you as a performer. It can change the way a song sounds and the way I feel about it. Sometimes an audience can suck the energy out of a song, sometimes they can give it a new lease of life. Sometimes that is a huge release, sometimes it feels regressive. It's definitely never just one thing, every day it feels different.
Thank you for letting us peak at your creative process! I would like to add that, as a fan, your songs are also tools of wisdom for others, who can process their emotions and better understand some situations through them. I wonder if you can also feel that energy when you perform them? The gratefulness we have for them - and you! - to have helped us?
Same thought here. And I like to add:
„On a basic level, as a fan, that’s important to remember - you can’t ever really know what someone wrote something about, how much is fiction and how much is autobiographical.“
This is really important to know and to remember. But to me as fan and listener the most important about a song is indeed what it means to me, what it makes me feel, what it helps me to feel and to understand.
I like the double meaning of „to release“. It just means publishing a song, but it also means, that the composer and the author present the song from their treasure chest to the world to listen to it and to make it their own in their own individual way. And that is great. How does it feel for you to release a song and see the different paths it takes for all its listeners?
Hi Sophie and Michael, thanks for your thoughts. I find that the energy contained within a song changes over time, both changing as it grows older and how I feel changes, but also changing depending on the room that the song is being performed in. I can definitely feel the energy from the people listening - the atmosphere in the room is a kind of culmination of all the emotions of all the people who are standing in it together and what they are projecting onto you as a performer. It can change the way a song sounds and the way I feel about it. Sometimes an audience can suck the energy out of a song, sometimes they can give it a new lease of life. Sometimes that is a huge release, sometimes it feels regressive. It's definitely never just one thing, every day it feels different.
ps. loved the food part
Loved this. Definitely relate. A song is just a song, born of the primordial soup of our experiences 😁