DiS Does Art: February 2020

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Link to previous threads:

DiS Does Art: December 2019 Social

Link to last month’s thread: DiS Does Art: November 2019 The idea of this thread is that it will contain an art prompt, and we will all create and share art in whatever format we like that was inspired by the prompt. I, for example, will be participating using either recorded music, or interpretive dance. Last month’s thread had some amazing stuff, from creative writing to photography to sketches to an entire song made from recordings of the sounds of making a cup of tea. December can be a str…

DiS Does Art: November 2019 Social

Right, there was enough interest in this to give it a try so let’s do it. The idea of this thread is that it will contain an art prompt generated by a website (I used Magatsu this month), and we will all create and share art in whatever format we like that was inspired by the prompt. I, for example, will be participating using either recorded music, or interpretive dance. Next month there will be a new prompt. It might be fun to talk through our process from prompt to piece, but you do whateve…

The idea of this thread is that it will contain an art prompt, and we will all create and share art in whatever format we like that was inspired by the prompt. There are some great examples in those three threads above.

So, without further ado, this month’s prompt (randomly generated this time) is :

:drum:

beyond one’s competence

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Quite scared of this one, tbqfh. I have a lot of limited musical competences and stretching any of them could be disastrous.

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Gonna struggle to outdo the government’s entry here I think Eps.

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Challenge accepted: I’m going to SING

probably won’t

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Oh yes, tbh this prompt allows me to do pretty much anything

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Might write something for this. The prompt reminded me of a short story idea I had ages ago on a theme of one being out of ones depth and so it seems like I could be meta (while also writing which is beyond my competence)

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Alright, visual art it is - prepare to be underwhelmed! This is a great prompt, nothing quite like being told to get outside your comfort zone.

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set some stuff up and plugged my synth in, had an enjoyable hour meandering around making some ambient stuff :slight_smile:

this is the most music I’ve made for about a year now!

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Got the bare bones of something that might be incredible or might be hilariously awful. It’s too early to tell.

Standard.

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Going to do something for this next week!

I’m putting this in writing so I can’t back out

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It was hilariously awful.

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are you sure?

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Yeah it turns out you can’t really make music just by slamming a fuzz pedal into the front of your new overdrive pedal and hope it does something interesting, you actually have to… do something.

Rude.

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I’m kinda hoping I can throw any old shit together next week, don’t want to have to put effort in!

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also Dr. Epimer, is it easy to restring a bass guitar?

I have a set of strings I bought like 2 years ago that I never opened, might give it a try

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have you tried just messing with the end of the lead so it makes a bit of a buzzing noise? that sounds like a fine way of making noise

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Yeah it is but the tension is much higher (obvs) so I find getting those first few wraps around the tuning peg to be a massive pain in the arse. I might just be bad at it though.

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it’s just cutting the ends that’s going to be a ballache I presume

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Yeah, to the extent that I didn’t bother if I could get away with it, but that just causes a different pain in the arse by having so much to wind and making sure the break angle is still ok.

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I don’t do that bullshit thing where you make them tidy and loop them before putting through the headstock, just stick the string in there and cut off the excess