Friday, August 30, 2019

Steve Roach


You find your passion, what Joseph Campbell would call following your bliss, where your energy feels complete. You create, you put something out and you get something back and it starts to generate this momentum in your life. For me it was like this endless feedback loop of energy that would continue to keep building. You can channel that into your work, the medium is incidental, it's the process that you connect into through your own inner process of being an artist. Your priorities for your daily life, what you focus in on, all of those parameters add up to your life, living authentically purely dedicated to it, doing the best you can. Feed it, nourish it, you have got to put the time in. It's not social media time, it's not building a brand. It is about developing your own voice and a deep connection to your creative process.

Find out what that passion is and start being, start making a personal investment of time and dedication, focus. Start studying on your own, now there are so many ways to learn things these days, YouTube for example. Connect with the artists you are inspired by through immersing in their work. In my case I discovered the music of German electronic artist Klaus Schulze. While I never met him at that time I was able to learn and understand things through deeper listening to his work that were pivotal in my development.

Things can happen if you apply yourself. You do not have to get approval from anybody, you should feel good about what you are doing. Create your own circle of life, find your ways of feeding into that core of your own values. Don't get caught up in over-judging your own process. Follow your bliss.

I have a deep sense of yearning for something just around the corner while at the same time I connect to a still point of being in the present every day. I wake up and I am just in it, ready for what is next. My motivation is inner driven.  The more you tap into these worlds the more it opens up, you just keep seeing the next horizon line and the next horizon line after that, you draw from the strength and value that brought you to this point. That is the motivating factor, that pushes you forward to the next one.

The combination of technology and music feeds into your own personal desire to connect higher and deeper into what it is to be alive, you try to find these sound worlds, or to make new forms of art, it is endless and never ending, the more you can tap into that the stronger the whole, there are so many layers to that, and it's not just a metaphor, you have to invent your own process and to make the right choices, be pragmatic about instruments or the tools that you are using and value your time. The value of time should never be taken for granted.

As each year goes by, more than ever I find that life is an hourglass with a limited amount of sand, different things will come in to the sand, a teaspoon, a bucket, a shovel, they all take time from the hourglass, so the importance of time awareness that sand taken out is the that time I have.

Every day I feel a great creative vitality, I feel the importance of my connections and priorities, relationships, family, all those things.

Steve Roach

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