if anyone here is an artist, and has a little time, I would LOVE it if you'd answer these questions...spend as much time as you want on the ones that really strike you. also, can you tell me your gender and age?

anyone who helps me out is awesome!
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Guideline Interview Questions: Working Artists

1. Tell me about your work.

2. Do you consider your process to be more impulsive or more intentional/calculated in nature?

3. Describe what you consider to be (creative) risk-taking in your work.
What goes on in your mind when considering taking a risk?
In your experience, what has been the failure/success rate when taking risks?
Elaborate about times when you’ve avoided creative risk.

4. In your work, are you more focused on the process or the product?
What role does intention play in your work?
How does impulse come into play?

5. Who do you consider to be your audience?
Do you think about the audience while creating work?
How has the audience and the role they play in your process changed over time?

6. Considering the mental process of weighing creative impulses in terms of risk, do you feel that you have a system for this “filtering” process?

7. Have there been particular influences over time that have shaped your artistic “filter?”
How has your process and your work reflected this?

8. Do you see the filter as being at all advantageous? Elaborate.
Do you ever find the filter to be hindrance to your work, and how so?
When the filter does impede your practice, what do you do to overcome self-imposed restraint?

9. Is there anytime when you actually are able to throw off restraint, and realize your impulses fully?
What are your feelings about this kind of process?

10. How do you expect the filter to change over time?
Will you play an active role in shaping/reshaping the filter, or allow it to grow and shift organically?

and, if you have a website, or flickr or something with your work up...that's helpful. you can PM your response if you don't want to be too public.

thanks!

1. Tell me about your work.

I make stringed instrumets by way of enginerring knowlege and crative intuition.
Main focus is harps but alls do guitars, and electric vuolins.
I allso play guitar and write music.

2. Do you consider your process to be more impulsive or more intentional/calculated in nature?

The ideas come from crative intution driven by the goal to make things better than before. Something new and different but works of art. Once the I have the idea then rest becomes mostly calculated.

3. Describe what you consider to be (creative) risk-taking in your work.
What goes on in your mind when considering taking a risk?
In your experience, what has been the failure/success rate when taking risks?
Elaborate about times when you’ve avoided creative risk.

Yuu must trust your what creativity is telling you to do no matter how different and out of the box it may seem. Trust it will work. Dont pay any attention to whats been done in past or what others say.


4. In your work, are you more focused on the process or the product?

Both, The process gets you the result. You must keep control of the process. Make every part right.

What role does intention play in your work?
How does impulse come into play?

I rely on impules and inttion for ideas. The original idea may not be perfect. I fine tune as I go along. Itention makes the impulse happen.

5. Who do you consider to be your audience?
Do you think about the audience while creating work?
How has the audience and the role they play in your process changed over time?

Anyone who plays or hears my instruments.
Yes it's a key factor. Im trying to impart to them certain moods/feelings and message by way of specific sounds and words. The goal is to permantly change them for the better. Not much change, always the reason for doing this.

6. Considering the mental process of weighing creative impulses in terms of risk, do you feel that you have a system for this “filtering” process?

7. Have there been particular influences over time that have shaped your artistic “filter?”
How has your process and your work reflected this?

Trusting mine another persons who I work with creativty and willingness to work completey out of the box and seeing the awesome results that gets. My harp mento has told me a few times you cant do that because its never been done like that before. Example violins have never been made out anything except maple. I will probably not use any maple at all. I am an out of the box builder. The filter is forget what's been done allready.

8. Do you see the filter as being at all advantageous? Elaborate.
Do you ever find the filter to be hindrance to your work, and how so?
When the filter does impede your practice, what do you do to overcome self-imposed restraint?

No not at all it brings perfect freedom. Not a hinderance. I have no testraints. I go with the inner flow.

9. Is there anytime when you actually are able to throw off restraint, and realize your impulses fully?
What are your feelings about this kind of process?

That's how I always work, and it's awesome.

10. How do you expect the filter to change over time?
Will you play an active role in shaping/reshaping the filter, or allow it to grow and shift organically?

Will not change. I am free flying. Creative intution is the way to go. Believe you have it. Trust what is tells you.

elnatural

Thanks el! I have some more questions based on what you've told me here...sent them to your message box.

Guideline Interview Questions: Working Artists

1. Tell me about your work.
I am a songwriter (I play acoustic and electric guitar, I sing, and I play a little bit of keyboard/piano). You could categorize my music as "pop", "rock", "acoustic", although those labels are quite vague... but they do give an idea of what I do.

2. Do you consider your process to be more impulsive or more intentional/calculated in nature?
It is a combination of both, actually. At times I feel the urge to write without putting much conscious thought into it... other times I will sit down with the intention to write, in a very conscious manner.


3. Describe what you consider to be (creative) risk-taking in your work.
What goes on in your mind when considering taking a risk?
In your experience, what has been the failure/success rate when taking risks?
Elaborate about times when you’ve avoided creative risk.

I think every song is a risk because it's pretty hard to know whether or not anyone will actually appreciate the song.

Hard to say exactly what the success rate has been... I'm not complaining at this point! hehe

4. In your work, are you more focused on the process or the product?
What role does intention play in your work?
How does impulse come into play?

I'm not sure I understand this question. The process of writing is important to me because I use it both as an emotional outlet and a method of communication. Not only that, but it is a great way to challenge myself... trying to write new and better songs. However, the whole time I am aware that what I am doing will become a product of some sort, to be used and enjoyed by others.

5. Who do you consider to be your audience?
Do you think about the audience while creating work?
How has the audience and the role they play in your process changed over time?

My audience is anyone who is willing to listen! I always think of the audience because I believe communication is the most important part of art. Why create art that no one can understand?

6. Considering the mental process of weighing creative impulses in terms of risk, do you feel that you have a system for this “filtering” process?

What kind of risks are we talking about? I definitely censor myself at times with the art I create, just like I mind my manners at the dinner table. I might feel angry at someone someday, but I'm not going to write a song about how I hate that person and then send it to them!

I guess my filtering process is, generally, if it's hateful or violent in a personal way or specifically towards a person or group of people, I don't use it.

7. Have there been particular influences over time that have shaped your artistic “filter?”
How has your process and your work reflected this?

I guess anyone with a message of "always love", like Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi, John Lennon, etc

My work reflects this in the sense that it is never derogatory or hateful towards people, at least in my opinion.


8. Do you see the filter as being at all advantageous? Elaborate.
Do you ever find the filter to be hindrance to your work, and how so?
When the filter does impede your practice, what do you do to overcome self-imposed restraint?

Yes it is advantageous. The goal of any artist should be to communicate and I would hate to think I have alienated people because I threw a temper tantrum one day and wrote a song about it.

9. Is there anytime when you actually are able to throw off restraint, and realize your impulses fully?
What are your feelings about this kind of process?

Yes, if it's something personal that, again, isn't hurtful towards someone else, like a song pleading for someone's heart and soul or something equally intense. I enjoy writing these kinds of songs very much.

10. How do you expect the filter to change over time?
Will you play an active role in shaping/reshaping the filter, or allow it to grow and shift organically?

I don't foresee much change in my filter happening... "Love, not hate" seems like the way to go!

My band's name is Union of Lanterns. Our website is [www.unionoflanterns.com]

Cheers!

I would like to add some qestions to the survey.

I am an Aquarian and an ENFP type. Where do you other artist fall in those 2 areas. Will ther be a trend?

elnatural

thanks thomas L!


hey, any women artists?
really short on the feminine perspective for this paper...

I'm a Taurus
don't know my type, el natural!

and it was my pleasure goldrush!