{"id":580,"date":"2015-01-06T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/?p=580"},"modified":"2015-01-06T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T23:09:26","slug":"andy-partridge-on-songwriting-and-composition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Andy Partridge on songwriting and composition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 8 of the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sodajerker.com\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sodajerker<\/a> podcast features an interview with Andy Partridge of XTC. Aside from being quite entertaining, the episode includes a number of wonderful insights from Partridge about songwriting, composition, inspiration, and music in general.<\/p>\n<p>On originality:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All sensual input goes into the songs, whether it&#8217;s you see a color you like or, you know, you read a book you like or you hear something and you think &#8220;Yeah! That&#8217;s inspirational!&#8221; or you see a painting. I think all sensory input goes through and you mangle it all up and you kind of make a copy of it and you slap all this stuff together and it goes out through your own guts. And then when you shit your song out, you&#8217;ve got one of those kind of play-dough, star-shaped things up your ass and\u00c2\u00a0your shit&#8217;s shaped like you. But it&#8217;s actually made from all this other shit by other people.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m trying to say is there&#8217;s probably no such thing as originality. What you do is you just take all your sensory inputs from everywhere, crap it all\u00c2\u00a0out through your own play-dough shape, and that becomes your personality. You&#8217;re translating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On theory [after playing several chords from &#8220;Senses Working Overtime&#8221;]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No idea what the chords are, don&#8217;t ask me. That&#8217;s not of interest, you know? It&#8217;s not needed. You don&#8217;t need to know the guts of music to make music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 8 of the excellent Sodajerker podcast features an interview with Andy Partridge of XTC. Aside from being quite entertaining, the episode includes a number of wonderful insights from Partridge about songwriting, composition, inspiration, and music in general. On originality: All sensual input goes into the songs, whether it&#8217;s you see a color you like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchblog.andremount.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}