It is ideal/utopian &, unfortunately, it is too good to be true for most of us. It is a complex combination of luck, timing, social situation, finance, talent, youth & resilience that makes the sustainability of spontaneity within a system/world of all-too-often possible predictability an option. Those so positioned should always strive to make the most of it for as long as possible.
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Björk - "I like things that grow naturally, there are so many long-term decisions in my job. I try to make as few as possible so I can feel more spontaneous. The web will definitely support me there. I can, in theory, write and record a song and put it on the net the same day. Which is very liberating. think the most magical thing about the net is that it allows people with jobs like mine to do whatever they want, so to predict what will happen might spoil the surprise. Each music maker should be able to treat the web in a different way. Most music makers just want to play songs to the people who would like to hear them, It is that simple. That is the core of people like me, the drive behind everything I do, so a path that makes that simpler and easier - to play a song for a listener and bypass the whole industry, the politics, the 'machine' is very tempting. I confess though that it is possibly utopian, possibly too good to be true..."
text: Guardian 2001-12-13 by Sean Dodson
photo: Rankin - dazed confused 2011-1
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