Q4 Stuff
Note: I haven’t finished this section, and some of the points are very brief and possibly meaningless.
I’ve put the things here to remind myself that they’re a part of the whole project for me.
I’d love to have made it look better, but right now my Q1 is all about the concert on Tuesday.
Come back later if you’d like to see updates on the page.
Latest update: sept. 12. - 17.30
BRICKS
If you’ve built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost.
Now put foundations under them.
The idea for a BRICKS system came directly from this lovely quote by Osa Johnson.
The inner censor would like to note that, yes, quotes is corny territory. But, some one-liners stick with you and become actionable, as was the case with this one.
I was looking up at my own palace there, thinking about what bricks I could lay to reach it.
This was at a dark time when my personal Q1 had just one bullet point: Getting myself out of apathy, and I reasoned that if I didn’t know why I was doing things, at least I’d like to know that I was doing something, and what.
The system is 14 work- and life-mode categories. They often overlap.
W - Wisdom
A - Alignment / Awareness
L - Love
C - Creativity / Contemplation
O - Orbits
E - Execution
H - Human
B - Body / Brain / Behaviour
R - Risk / Relating / Rejection / Resilience
I - Input
K - Knockout
S - Skill
‘Vejviser’ + Poster
Lessons with sports coach Jørn Ravnholt made me realise the importance of being systematic in the work of changing my negative mental self-feedback.
POSTER PICTURE
Rejection goals
Setting a yearly rejection goal is another tool for reframing events that would normally lead to feeling of defeat.
When you think about it, there is no reason to feel defeated if you’ve done your best. Rather, it shouldmake you feel good about yourself for having tried and risking rejection.
This twist of logic actually works. Although I don’t expect it to make the pain of being rejected go away, I see that I generally get past the feeling of defeat faster when I go to my document, add the rejection and internally announce something like “Well done! One rejection closer to my goal!
My goal for 2019 is to get 75 rejections. My score now is 8, so I’ll need to take more risks in the remaining year. I have 12 possible rejections pending, money applications and collaboration requests, and I will collect many more when I write to labels about collaborating on the next ØYA album.
Finn Hesselager
The work we did at Finn’s place in Nørre Snede has had a profound impact, and I’ve been there three times now. I’d like to briefly discuss some of the things that resonate strongly. I’ve found that working in a similar way that actors do, is fruitful for me. I’ve rarely seen music as separate from other things and I often get a weird comic feeling at solemn music contexts, with an implicit agreement that listening should be separated from the other senses in respect of the music.
Masks are helpful in Connection to a higher consciousness, a deeper listening, a bigger music manifesting through the performer.
Safe zone of friends dealing with closed energy together.
Local Expedition - a Q4 to Q2 hack
Since 2014, I’ve been making ‘expeditions’ to every place where it’s possible to write. I write a bit about where I am, my immediate thoughts and impression of the place. I use it as a way to get myself from Q4 to Q2. It’s a way of immersing myself in the world while working, and a way of creating a feeling of being in Q4. A lot of the times I’ve made progress on a lyric it has been on a local expedition.
Jyderup Accordeontræf
Fear is the biggest obstacle for music, for life, for space, for improvisation.
Jyderup Accordeontræf is a powerful antidote.
Automatic Writing
As a part of my daily routine, I’ve been doing hundreds of pages of automatic writing, normal and mirrored. It’s been a turbulent process where I had to give it up at one point because I was giving my subconscious a license to pour depression into page after page. Pablo Llambias gave me the tip I needed: Write about the outer!!
Weekly Meeting
The last ritual I have developed to stay focused is the Weekly Meeting. Every week, typically on a Sunday, I set aside 1-2 hours for a meeting with myself, writing in my journal. The agenda changes over time.
It is a great help to do the colossal work of album and film projects in chunks of one week at a time and setting specific goals for the coming week. This is especially important since I have no fixed workweek whatsoever. Every week has its own tasks, meetings, concerts, etc, and so, every week is a new challenge in finding an efficient working mode.
At the meeting I make specific plans for when to have focused Q2 time, and when to get Q3 things out of the way.
On a less industrious level, an important part of the meeting is acceptingeverything that happened the past week, reminding myself of the adequacyof the things I did, explicitly writing down things that I am grateful lfor in the week. I find that this is an effective way of letting go of blocked energy, destructive thought patterns and regrets that have accumulated during the week.
The way I used to set new year’s resolutions, I now set a new week’s resolution, and also take to time to appreciate the things I will do and people I will meet in the week to come.
Orbits
A way of visualising context
I'm beginning to think about musicians, artists and saints like stars and planets; everyone in an individual stellar system, and everyone connected with all. Even in separate regions of a galaxy, two stars are still linked in their orbit around the same centre.
I have made a romantic parable of a universe of human cosmic objects, connected through the gravity of the creative force. In this fantasy, each cosmic object gravitates towards certain others, forming a unique orbit system for each star.
The star map you see here is the Mathias Holm Jørgensen nebula. You will see cosmic objects of very different kinds, having influenced me at different times.
It is obviously very incomplete
CLICK ON THE SUN TO HAVE A LOOK
