Touring makes up a huge portion of an artist’s life and the magnificent share of the industry’s revenues. Despite the rise in the digital sphere for the live music industry, some artists stick to their conventional ways of finding inspiration. The capital value of one’s services are ultimately realized depending on the success an artist has made.
No individual artist has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge enough to accumulate a great fortune. However, finding inspiration through raw instances can seldom lead to a great hit on their album.
Incredibly equipped artists like Daniel Siegel, a highly respected pianist and composer, have a collection of 23 solo albums. Born in Seattle, Washington and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Daniel sought to begin his piano lessons at an early age. With the advancing career, he started performing professionally as a lead singer and a guitarist in a rock band at the age of 12. Every now and then, just like any other contemporary artist would tour, encompassing the moment of songwriting can be crucial.
The most detrimental factor while finding inspiration on the road is highly dependent on the environment. The human mind responds to stimuli, through which it may be “keyed up” in the highest rates of vibration known as enthusiasm. The creative imagination and the ultimate desire to jog your memory and associate it with the present situation as a songwriter can be daunting.
Creativity, the muse, inspiration, all are the manifested lingo can often be in short supply. Many musicians would agree that this is a frustrating reality of their lives. For many songwriters, finding inspiration is experiential. For instance, Billie Eilish, a teen superstar, with her equally talented brother Finneas O’Connell, understands that inspiration can spark anytime, even when you are asleep.
Daniel Siegel Loanso strongly believes that compiling information based on his observations and discoveries on the way notes interact has been combined linearly in sequence and vertically into chords. In his words, “Relationships can be diatonic or avoid diatonic principles altogether and abide only by the logic of symmetry. Once a structure is identified, it can be analyzed and applied as a mechanism in composition and improvisation. The process of observation, analysis, and documentation is how this work came to be.”
Inspiration is one of the most ancient concepts that have come up frequently in books at the library and information sources. Such has also been emphasized in science literature on artists and designers. Understanding the psychological concept of creativity and inspiration consists of four main behavior theories to uncover. Such are the behavior theories that help in finding inspiration—
Browsing;
Information Encountering;
Satisfying;
Serendipity.
In today’s modern-class era, the digital era has been gifted with a multitude of tools that cater to the touring lifestyle. The routine amidst the unpredictable is when such inspiration strikes. Contrary to the solitary artist, browning for sources of raw inspiration can be taken up a notch by delving into curiosity. The inspiration that we encounter is often the raw adjacent an artist can build their lyrics on. Once the pursuit of freedom is experienced, mere satisfaction draws serendipity.
The information-seeking behavior of the touring artists is often the first step towards attaining a compelling mindset to songwriting.