Hi dave! for now I am using the edirol r09HR recorder, but sometimes I can use the video camera on my cell phone, but if I'd like to have a stereo recording, I plug in my binaural mikes which I can put on my sun glasses, and there we go, a good quality recorded piece has a life, Well, the first recorders were cassette players, but then, in 1997, I started using the good old minidisc recorders, and I still have those recorders left, in case the r09hr, should be broken or so. Regards, Jörgen Hansson! Tel +46 703-601296 www.jorgenhansson.com skype: djtropical4532 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Hillebrandt To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 3:08 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: rekindling the passion for music composition Hi Jorgen, What type of recorder do you use for portable, quick recordings? A cassette, digital, or something different yet. i've got recorder in my cell phone and that has came in handy. made a hot key for the recorder so can bring it up very quickly. Also, I am totally blind, but my cell phone has speech synthesizer in it so speaks everything in there so can find any song i want. is very handy for recording someone on the fly and has choices for good quality too, considering what it is. Am excited to be going back to Amsterdam near end of november where i've gotten lots of inspiration and tons of different styles of music to catch. Where i don't have same ability with a keyboard, just jamming to different styles in drum machine kind of works same way and works for me. Good to play outside of style that comes naturally as force myself to get into other styles and find that i like them a lot. Good luck and happy writing. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Jörgen Hansson To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 8:53 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: rekindling the passion for music composition Hi scott! I must admit that I have the same feeling as you sometimes, but it also depends on which mood you're in, and what kind of inspiration you've got. Sometimes when I'm abroad, I always take my portable recorder with me and recording some of the music they have in that country I'm in at the time. and for now, I must tell you, that when I made up my first album, I got through some old songs that my passed away good old friend Henrik and I did together, and rerecorded them and gave those songs a hole new life, and that was really exciting. Sometimes, when I'm standing by the Tyros 3 keyboard I have, I can get some inspiration by playing around with all the styles it has, for example, last night I was just doing that and I even recorded what I did, and I have now some other old songs that my friend Henrik and I have done in my head which may be rerecorded sometimes. one of them is called Summer lovin', and it was kind of a reggae song, but now I found a style which is sounding more poppy and rocky, so I'm planning on working on that song and see how it goes. Ok, enough from me now, smile. Regards, Jörgen Hansson! Tel +46 703-601296 www.jorgenhansson.com skype: djtropical4532 ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Lawlor To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 4:47 AM Subject: [ddots-l] rekindling the passion for music composition Hello. I'm feeling lately that the passion and love for music composition that I used to have is fading. When I got my kurzweil pc3, and would play it, I didn't feel the same excitement and creative spark that I felt long ago when I had my first keyboard. I'm not sure if it's a case where maybe I've changed over all this time without an outlet for musical creativity because I've been without a board for so long but I'm wondering, for those of you who have been in music for a while, how do you ignite the passion if you feel it slipping away? Someone suggested to me that maybe I'm just ready to go in a new direction musically. Reworking old material is predictable and boring, even on a new board and as much as I'd like to get into ambient and space music, I find that when I try to write that sort of thing, I find myself wondering where to go with an idea, how long to stretch it out, etc. I enjoy the long-form characteristics of a lot of ambient music. Perhaps I'm getting in my own way as I've heard that some artists have that problem. If we get this new house that we're hoping to buy, I'll have a dedicated space for my pc and whatever keyboard I decide to buy and maybe that will help, having my own personal creative space. Right now, everything's in the study which is a common area for all of us. Thanks for letting me ramble out some thoughts and for giving me any ideas or feedback you might have regarding what I've written. Scott