on a scale of 1 to 10, how organised are you?

Stanley Pain

just a bit of fun and idle interest, but i'm probably going to go somewhere with it...

1 being so disorganised you stress even yourself out
10 being so organised you have one of those miniature vacuums for your keyboards and polish the compressed aircans you keep in their clearly labelled and alloted space

so, on that scale, how orgainsed:

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness?
b) your filing systems?
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process?
d) your kitchen?
e) your bedroom?

*"is programming a musical and/or creative process" discussions are banned from this thread! Razz

blue hell

Wout Blommers · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:51 am Post subject:

Hey, Stan...
Where are your own scores? Very Happy

Wout

Kassen

Wayne Higgins · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:28 pm Post subject:

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? 5
b) your filing systems? 8
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 6
d) your kitchen? 8
e) your bedroom? 5

Studio workspace and bedroom get a 5 because I have this thing about always putting things on top of the dresser, desk, tables, ect and forgeting about them. Never move them. I also like to place things hanging slightly over the edge. My wife says that as clean as I am about everything else, she lets me slide on this one. I'm serious, I am a neatfreak, but if you look on the top of my dresser, you will find last years X-mas present and Walmart reciepts from 6-8 months ago.

Filing system. Extreme, but a true neat freak knows that there is always room for improvement. I worked at the FSU library for three years.

Kitchen, I worked in restaurants for 15 years so a clean kitchen is a natural. And with the 82 year old mother-in-law living in, if I put anything out of place, I'll hear about it.

How often do I wash my car? At least once every 6 months.
There are certian things that are organized without a thought, and other things never reach a level of organization because they're just not that high on the proability list.

Antimon · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject:

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? 6
b) your filing systems? 3
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 2 (programming is something like 8... but I'm not going to argue)
d) your kitchen? 2
e) your bedroom? 3

/Stefan

dewdrop_world

bachus

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? 5
I clean it good ~every 8 months so that's an average of a range of 1 to 10.

b) your filing systems? 4

c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 4

d) your kitchen? 9
I cook and the Mrs cleans. (She can't boil water -- it was the only way to save our marriage Laughing

)

e) your bedroom? 9
The Mrs again -- My shop is about 1.5

Inventor · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:

I'm a 4 at best, and I'm not organized enough to list it in separate catagories!

Low Note · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject:

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? 3-8
b) your filing systems? 6
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 9
d) your kitchen? 2
e) your bedroom? 3

Yeah, I just cleaned. These numbers are based on pre-cleaning since i tolerated this level of filth for about two weeks.

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:29 am Post subject:

I'm fairly clean, but not very tidy.
There are parts of the lab which are a foot deep in stuff which gets moved around from place to place and never gets put away, (or thrown out). Yet other parts are OCD level organised. All my resistors and caps are sorted into drawers, and all the chips are in numerical order. There's about 500 CDs in a bookcase above the computer monitor which are in alphabetical order, and I sometimes use my calculator to generate a random number and multiply it by 20 to choose which CD to listen to. I'm not joking. I don't like making little decisions. Embarassed

On the other hand, Felicity is the only person who has any idea where my last tax return is.
I cook a lot, and clean, well, not too much, in the kitchen. But I think I'm the only one who has cleaned our toilet! Laughing

(about once a month)
I wash the car, well, I've washed it once! Shocked

and we've only had for 2 years. Laughing

Sweeping (vacuuming) calms me down. (OCD again I think! Laughing

)
So my scores would be:-

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? 2 -> 9
b) your filing systems? 2
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 5
d) your kitchen? 5
e) your bedroom? 3

kijjaz · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? 4
b) your filing systems? 2
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 3
d) your kitchen? 8!!! .. i've got many spices and they look really tidy.. (although sometimes they're old -_-")
e) your bedroom? 2 <-- the center of (a), (b)

smueske · Joined: May 02, 2007 Posts: 98 Location: Minnesota, USA

I love this thread. Up until recently I thought my studio was the messiest one in the world. In every other forum I participate at people post these immaculate photos of their space. I recently cleaned it up, which was a two-day process.

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness?

8 (now), it was a 2 before

b) your filing systems?

This is a continual problem. I never know what to call a project when I start it and as it develops it changes names. I usually work on 4 - 5 pieces at the same time, and when one "catches fire" I'll work on it exclusively until the first serious draft is done. Consequently I forget about songs and sometimes don't find them again for years. I've never lost anything, but I've lost track of a lot of things. I'm seriously trying to think through a more efficient tracking system.

c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process?

I like to divide between intentionality and accident. For example, creative a melody line or chord progression, write some rhythm, then run the rhythm through some sort of destruction or random reorganizing instrument (such as travelizer, etc.) and then chop up those parts and retrigger with a sampler. Sometimes I compose in real time with a tool like Absynth and layer in the wav, chopping up pieces and using different effects on them. It's really very different from song to song, but I really believe in the synthesis of intention and accident.

d) your kitchen?

My wife does not let me near the kitchen.

e) your bedroom?

Again, until I cleaned up my studio, it was pretty messy. I had, literally, several piles of books beside the bed (big ones -- big enough to trip over). I'm basically a slob.

Jyoti

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? Control room: 8, Live room 1
b) your filing systems? 8
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 9
d) your kitchen? 9
e) your bedroom? 8

This all makes me sound very organised but I'm answering this when the above happens to be true. Often, kitchen and bedroom are absolute chaos.

My live room is almost impassable. Too much stuff in the way, not gear but bloody flightcases and mic stands, old bits of computer kit I've got to wipe the drives on. It's driving me barmy! ARGH! Mad

Alexander · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:49 am Post subject:

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness? 5
b) your filing systems? 3
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process? 7
d) your kitchen? 5
e) your bedroom? 5

My bedroom/studio/workspace/kitchen is one and the same! Very Happy

These topics make me sad... Sad

I need a house and get those scores up!

Kassen · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:59 am Post subject:

Alexander · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:37 am Post subject:

You're right! And I have always seen composing and cooking as similar creative processes, so it's good to put up your studio in your kitchen!

Very Happy

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:23 am Post subject:

a) is your studio/workspace, in terms of tidyness?
b) your filing systems?
c) your compositional (and/or creative/programming*) process?
d) your kitchen?
e) your bedroom?

All 5, with a standard deviation of about 2. I like to let it go as long as possible, but I have tripped over things and slammed a laptop to the floor once, and have broken bones or had other serious injuries from falling outside while running on about 6 occasions (never broke anything falling inside, but I have had some severe sprains and bruises from falling over things inside). Also I tend to drag a lot of mud and dirt in from outside, so I have to clear the clutter so I can vacuum the floor.

EDIT: Forgot about c. It's probably a shade better than 5, especially if I decide to polish a piece. But perfectionism tends to dampen creativity, and messy compositions leave more room for improvisation than tidy ones.

Desktops and table tops and book shelves tend to stay a bit more disorganized than the floor.

I love messy offices and studios.

Inventor · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject:

Although I typically keep a messy desk, I once when through a neat desk phase. Then one day some idiot commented that I must be a poor engineer because my desk was neat. If I had a dollar for every little smart-aleck verbal jab I received in my engineering career, I'd be wealthy today. Grrr...

Floppy · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

wondering what score it would be to sit in underwear in the studio having dinner ?

Inventor

Acoustic Interloper · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject:

I was working with someone the other day who struck me as being pretty disorganized in the sense of disorganized thoughts and project structure, and it struck me that, even though I allow superficial clutter to build up around me and even enjoy that, at a deeper level I am apparently pretty organized. Clutter and a messy desk does not equate to be disorganized. I think that this guy was disorganized at a deep level. And, for all I know, he keeps a clean office.

Looks like there are layers to this thing.

Inventor · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject:

Inventor · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject: