I love creating music. It is rewarding. Not completing a track, but the journey and the experiance. Being able to explore and follow my curiousity.

Just like reading a book is an experiance that takes place while you read, and not in the completion of the task, having read the book, it is the same with music to me.

The goal is not the end result, the end result is a consequense of the goal. The goal is simply the creation process.

While I get my reward from completing a task in other areas, like cleaning or doing the dishes. The brain reward me with dopamine once the task is done. But in my music creation process, or writing a book, my brain rewards me with dopamine for doing the task rather then when it is completed.

This gives me the behaviour of creating a track, and once it is done, move on to the next. To explore something new, to experiance another journey.

I have the same behaviour when reading a book, creating music or writing a book.

So the very purpose of creating it to experiance the creation. To explore. To follow my curiousity. Which is why (I think – at least one perspective of several) it is more important to me to create than to perform or market my music. Once the creation is done, I move on, the track has already fulfilled its purpose. Sure, I enjoy listening to it afterwards, especially as I tend to create something and schedule it for release at a distant future date, and not returning to the created track until it is live on streaming platforms. But that is a completely different satisfaction than creating it. And I feel no satisfaction performing music. Nor whielding an instrument to create music.

This is my path, I hope you find yours and enjoy your ride!

Stay curious!