One way to determine if a slightly off-kilter idea might be artistically successful is to find a similar idea and ask yourself, “How does this make me feel?”
For example, let’s say I have an idea to make a mix CD for someone, but it’s not an ordinary mix CD. (I admit — I came up with this trick years before it was passe to make mix CDs. Just bear with me for a moment.)
This mix CD has segues, overdubs, and weird transitional effects. Not quite a DJ mix, but something similar structurally.
And I decide to provide no song titles (so the listener can’t prejudge anything), no silence between tracks, and no complete songs — only snippets and abbreviated versions.
On one hand, something like this could be fun to make.
But what if you were the recipient of such a CD?
Would the style/format frustrate you?
Note the difference/gap between something that would be interesting to make and interesting to listen to.
The ideal project should be both.
