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11 Nov 2013, 8:47 am

I used to be an artist. I used to draw all the time.
But years and years of major depression had almost completely dried up my creativity.
I haven't done any art in 10+ years.
I just don't feel it in me anymore.

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11 Nov 2013, 8:58 am

Yep. Not as profession, but as a hobby.



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11 Nov 2013, 9:03 am

To me, art is an ability to demonstrate what one is seeing/hearing/feeling in such a way that the audience actually experiences it.


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11 Nov 2013, 10:57 am

Making pizza is an art. It's the culinary arts. People go to college and win awards for that stuff.

I'm not using my depression as an excuse, but if I was situated better in life, I'd look into the culinary arts as a profession.


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11 Nov 2013, 11:07 am

Jensen wrote:
You might have a point there, yet many composers, - and they can´t be AS all of them, - works with repetition and sequences.

It's hard to say. Some of my earliest memories were listening to rather complex classical music (the same track over and over again 100 times!) and it did something to my brain so that music is almost tactile to me; I "feel" the notes registering inside my head.

I have mentioned on some other forums that after 20 years of playing around with some musical themes in my head I finally composed a 5-movement Suite for Clarinet and Piano. It uses sequences and a lot of counterpoint.

But I don't see how my composition is the result of an Aspie mind. All evidence points toward Bach being an NT. And arguably no one understood music like he did.