A Reflection on the Effect of Exhaustion on Creating Something Worth ________
A lot stood in the way of me and the completion of the production of this piece. Per usual, I experienced a lot of back-and-forth and struggle to make decisions throughout the process of my multimedia project. Things on the preference-based side (deciding which artistic choices I wanted to make) to the technological side of things (losing my computer in the Kansas City Airport) impacted my process in ways I didn’t expect them to, and somehow still had an effect on what I wanted to say with my work. From an artistic standpoint, I initially liked my sound project so much I was improvising to it in the studio a few times, really excited at the potential of choreographing something to a sound bit that *I* designed. After a lot of rumination I ended up going with a different piece ("The Creator", by Piano Marine Mike.) My other piece, although containing a lot of aspects unique to me, just wasn't sparking the kind of inspiration I needed at the time. Especially as I was get...