How Happy Accidents Can Inspire Your Music

In which I show how I go actively looking for "happy accidents" when composing, especially when working with other musicians. I have found it is an easy way to get creative results fast.
This video is part of a series, where I detail my work with / friday_musik and / anabambalaelsatatiana for Amplify Berlin.
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[@Hainbach]

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[@LillySchwartz]

Already got them and used Wires in a track today 😀 One of my favourite plugins these days!

[@Psionetics]

Using them both right now, they sound excellent!

[@bricelory9534]

My mom, who is very creative in her different arts, has taught me that art is 90% serendipity - she says it partly tongue-in-cheek but it's something I have taken to heart: that things going unplanned may lead to unique and unexpected joys that make your art better than your original plan.

[@DjTroublemaker]

My first time recording in a real recording studio around 1985 we were using a Linn Drum. We accidently changed a sound of one of the drums to a orchestra hit and it made our track have a completely different feel that we ran with and changed our song for the better.

[@MrBabahou]

Nice one at 9:55 "Variation is best, always, after you’ve repeated something. Because there’s no need to vary anything you haven’t repeated."

[@rookmaster7502]

Words of wisdom. Many of the great Classical music composers have utilized this strategy in their works.

[@Kirillow]

That is so true right? Makes you think. Does it also apply for different forms of art? Repetition establishes something. Creates this importance.

[@IlBiggo]

@@Kirillow Or, in the words of Adam Neely:"repetition legitimizes". Once you've stated your law, it's time to break it.

[@HOUCEMATE]

It's refreshing to see people take their time to explore sounds when so many people are clamoring to output as much work as you can, as fast as you can.

[@driftliketokyo34ftw35]

This is exactly why I don’t want to pursue a permanent career in the arts, especially music. I want to explore on my own terms, make things when I want to, not when I need to.

[@MartinDoudoroffLLC]

I saw the title of this video and had a good chuckle, because, so far, “happy accidents” are just about all I’ve got to work with.

[@GreatBallsOfAcid]

A very comforting thought when I sit down behind my gear: Happy accidents are what people uneducated in their craft must have a lot more of, so keep accidenting and enjoy it!

[@kango8620]

I. Love. Everything. About. Hainbach. pure inspiration and the best artist of our time

[@goesbysteve]

I cried several times through this. Especially seeing the expression of joy on Friday’s face hearing the mix down. Simply wonderful. Not just the music that they produced but the support and collaboration they received.

[@PeterPlanker]

Die Stimmung deiner Videos lässt sich wie folgt zusammenfassen: Es ist morgens, man hat frei, die Sonne scheint, aber es ist Herbst, also verlässt man das Haus trotzdem nicht gerne. Man kocht Wasser und gießt es in die IKEA-Filterkaffeekanne, natürlich analog. Man hört einen Song oder erinnert sich an etwas, und dann wird man kreativ. Das ist das Gefühl, das deine Videos vermitteln. Ich mag das. Ich bleibe gerne hier.

[@thealmightycommenter]

Got back home from a crappy day at work to watch this and have all of my mojo restored. Thank you hainbach for sharing, absolutely loved learning about these musicians and seeing you collaborate with them ❤️

[@mircolange4055]

Her happy face at the end

[@steeliewheelies]

"No need to vary anything that you haven't repeated" THANK YOU HAINBACH I needed that seed of knowledge! I needed to hear that so badly! Thank you thank you thank you!!

[@lumpielump3576]

another very inspirational video - as Miles Davis said: there are no false notes, it just depends on the next notes you play...

[@Emily_M81]

Someone showed me this video because I mentioned a "happy accident" I had. I was working with my Maschine+ and a few monosynths on a synthwavey/cyberpunky sort of thing. I had plugged in a reverb to the send/return of my BX-60 mixer and was playing notes on one of the synth channels to test it out. I didn't realize I had left the Maschine with Record active, and completely by accident recorded a little fill that absolutely worked on that synth's part and kept it. Happy accidents indeed!

[@TheDeadlyKind]

What a talented pair. Loved seeing the creative process.

[@ZsoltTorok]

I first heard Friday play live at Common Ground a couple of years ago, and I was immediately enchanted by her beautiful vocal performance. So happy to see her grow as an artist, and appreciate this bit of insight into her creative process.

[@driftliketokyo34ftw35]

Your the type of person that can cheer someone up simply by existing.

[@axelcodr]

a couple of weeks ago I discovered video of you making an ambient sound that told a whole story just by one sample. I was so touched in the heart.... I felt so inspired. I could be sitting there with you cheering you all day to play more!

[@Multi-Waves_Sketchbook]

That variation quote unlocked something in my brain, it's so simple it makes so much sense

[@Kirillow]

Man that song is awesome. The Friday song. Can't wait to hear it for real :D I like how you said "Variation is always best after you already repeat something". This is so true now that I think about it. Awesome video, just great.

[@oneInStore]

HAINBACH could record an industrial plant and make it sound good , very inspirational

[@Metamerist625]

ooohhh I loved this mini doc, so lovely to see people working together like this, can't wait for part 2

[@neuzethmusic131]

Beautiful! Exactly what we need in these dark days. No social., ethnic or political division, but people working and growing together. Thanks for sharing Hainbach ❤️

[@ChristianKrupa]

It’s so good to see this process, very familiar from almost any sort of creative collaboration, and shows the supportive spirit that is most the productive path through it ❤️

[@medenine4828]

Can’t wait for part 2. Loved this, watching the creative process of others is possibly more interesting than any other type of KZbin video to me.

[@paulkhimasiamorgan631]

Fascinating to see your mentoring in progress. Looking forward to hearing more from Elsa Mbala in part two!

[@TommasoGobbo]

One of the best video you brought us on the channel! Waiting part 2! Love from Italy

[@toomuchmidi]

Hainbach is a gift to the world. 🤩

[@tempestwood]

What you are after is, I think, the imperfect clock, the inperfect inflection, the imperfect voice, the expression of self that doesn’t resolve to the machines we make.

[@BottleBass1977]

Fascinated by the process and eager to follow your journey with the other talented musicians

[@ErinIsBlueBlue]

Hainbach as producer. How lucky these artists are ! Beautiful music.

[@danielbirchmusic]

I’m going to spend tomorrow adjusting the heating in my house with my VSS-30 in hand . Great video as always Hainbach, many thanks 🙏🏻

[@elsantoproductora]

You are such a beautiful human being, thanks for sharing this video!

[@mixschrecks3839]

This is how collabs should progress. And what a beautiful result too ❤️

[@bilenocimusic8220]

This is great! These videos with other artists are welcoming change from usual (and interesting too) equipment monologues :-). We need to see Creative Director Hainbach more often!

[@wokeil]

I'm gonna need a Hainbach documentary at some point 😤😤😤😤

[@Makebelieve123]

Finding this plugin was my happy accident ! Thank you Hainbach, im glad i came back :)

[@DMTCYMATICSDreamMusicTemple]

Haha! Yes! Since I was a little boy, my Nan taught me this, I’ve remembered to work with happy accidents within music. If it sounds great, accident or not. Keep it! Love this channel!

[@JasonStayanchi]

It is so beautiful to watch such pure moments of music creation. I love it.

[@trickfall8752]

I think this really shows the importance of collaboration which is something I find difficult to do with electronic music. It was also really nice to see their joy.

[@kavokei1337]

08:44 goosebumps What a fascinating diary of the three of you embracing artistry, authenticity and happy little accidents. I'm now following both on Bandcamp.

[@pjmtry7]

This vid was awesome, please keep doing this and producing more with others like this!!!!

[@andresgrumann4079]

That´s a perfect video, nice "Erfahrung" and I share both this "happy accident" and a way to break egos to collaborate, happy to receive this video, hug from Chile ...

[@vgaportauthority9932]

This was great. My favorite video of yours for a while for sure :)

[@Psionetics]

Really entertaining series! Great work everyone

[@PreRenderedRealities]

Damn, this was the classiest video I've seen in a long time, on so many levels.

[@mlmlm3928]

Great post Hainbach. I believe collaborating with people on music is one of the greatest forms of communication between people. It requires 'active' listening between two (or more) people, which can only be accomplished with minimal 'ego' :) I think your footage towards the end shows it can be challenging and a feedback process which requires trust to be devoloped. I started my creative journey as as a visual artist (painter) but very difficult to collaborate in that medium - tried a couple of times with 2 or 3 friends working simultaneously on the same canvas but immediately gets literally very messy :)

[@Jeff_____]

I really love this video and the music you all created.

[@papepcool]

Awesome work. Good to see Artist helping others..

[@srouawai4424]

Seeehr interessant! Vielen Dank für die Einblicke. Würde sehr gerne mehr von dir zum Thema Komposition hören und sehen.

[@daerschoi]

Bob Ross, it's so true. That's why this channel feels like home...

[@KosmoDeuz]

Nice and inspiring Collabs.

[@wirtuell]

Really, really loved the piano Part of friday! Everthing Else Was super aswell.

[@wirtuell]

Where can i Listen to the track? Just wanne dance to it!

[@brianspenst1374]

That song at the end was giving me feelings of early goth, post punk, new wave. Her voice really pairs well with the rest of the track.

[@jrodohio]

Happy accidents often lead me to something better than planned.

[@synth-o-rama]

Great video. Especially love the last part, producing Friday. That's very interesting to me, seeing the development of a song. Please make more of those.

[@Kirillow]

Yeah I second this. I would enjoy a few hours of raw footage like that. Just a song creation process.

[@BogdanBelyaevMusic]

Haha, i was working on a track with the name "Happy Accidents" and found your video with almost the same name in my subscription list. What a happy accident!

[@CapeCodPhilip]

Wonderful. Inspiring. (And the music is good, too)...

[@snuppssynthchannel]

My album Traktor Tarzan is a happy accident, its also a happy train crash of an album! Great video, very inspiring, this is the type of messages that creating musicians needs to hear.

[@federico_musso]

my god the op1 can scalate so much, such an incredible instrument, wish i could get my hands on one

[@juanandresmonardes3390]

inspiring and beautiful!

[@moottori_paa]

Love you man!

[@wiggesobk]

Very inspiring! So good 👏👏👏

[@circkus]

Gear dork moment: I liked seeing the Poly-61 behind Suzana/Friday.

[@wishbonebrewery]

Lovely :) Looking forward to the next installment :)

[@ToreHansen]

This is amazing inspiring!!

[@kidOrange69]

art imitates life

[@juliana.2120]

the process reminds me a little of Einstürzende Neubauten :) very inspiring!

[@soundinmind]

Love this

[@I.O.M.]

Wow! Also nice to see you in the producer chair (in a way).

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

I have to say, when I think of all of my favourite ideas I've come up with, it's the unintentional stuff that I love the most. The easiest songs to write are the ones that happen organically. You just feel like you're coasting along, each section after the other seemingly falling effortlessly into place. Most of those sort of stem from the various tunes that snap into my head out nowhere, and I immediately have to reach for my voice note app to get it down before it goes. I'm sure it's a common phenomena. It can feel like an auditory hallucination sometimes. You hear the song in your head like a complete record. I always try to recreate that, but find you never do get it 1 to 1 perfect, and that's actually okay, because sometimes you end up with something even better. It's a great feeling, and certainly makes up for the times when you're sat at your DAW trying to come up with an idea, nothing sticks, and you feel like shouting and throwing something. I'm definitely an advocate of never trying to force and idea, though I certainly understand if you're writing for a client and need to make a deadline. It depends if pressure helps you in that situation. I don't think it helps me personally. Itvs also why I try not to direct too much in my band. I trust who I'm playing with to add their own parts, know what they're doing, and in doing so they make the song arrive at a place I never anticipated, and that's very satisfying too.

[@patricketp8356]

Lovely song!

[@klinkske]

Fantastic stuff.

[@Chasing_Thoughts]

Great thumbnail!, it looks like hainbach is painting with an OP1 palette 🎨

[@audiocl1932]

_"Camera fell over. So here is some ceiling"_ Thought I was watching an Apple ad at this moment

[@JacobShulkinYashkakakashka]

Really inspiring!! I need hainbach to help me actually figure out how to complete a track for once 😹

[@iqiegraphy219]

Your vid just shown up on my recommendation and I found it so inspiring SUBSCRIBED! I'm just starting my musical journey and it's good to find and get some good source like your video

[@Hainbach]

Welcome! You can have a look at my "On Composition" playlist for similar topics. This series will continue next week.

[@iqiegraphy219]

@@Hainbach Awesome! Keep doing this kind of video and you'll know that because of you, more people will feel inspired to make something great

[@StpSqncr]

Hey! This is very nice!

[@chinmeysway]

Generally Bob Ross was super formulaic though! If only he had embarrassed more experimentation. But I like how he imagined his landscapes. It’s also interesting to examine how some instruments and processes lend themselves well (or not very well) to accidental arrival of sounds and structure. I find looper pedals allow for less perfection than that of sequencers. But maybe it’s also about getting to know an (electronic) instrument super well, enough to know how to make room for randomness. Amen to turning grid off!

[@BjornJenkins]

Fun thing about the instrument made by ann old HDD. Build one almost identical about ten years ago, and stille have it. An old HDD fitted with an contact microphone and some springs to expand the possibility of sounds!

[@DavidPasajero]

Love it !

[@GongMaster]

Sehr gut gemacht! I wanna bring my gongs to Berlin. Would love to do something experimental with you.

[@rayflux]

Lovely!

[@RCAvhstape]

Would love to have Hainbach as my producer. Very nice.

[@lacosingalerneb8543]

Please make some cd ! I love your music and i d like to listen it in my car...have a nice day!😁👍 Cheers from Canada ! ☀️☀️☀️

[@spurioustransients]

Fascinating as always! (And did I spy some of Yuri Landman's instruments in the background?)

[@RCAvhstape]

Interesting that you know who Bob Ross was in Germany. I remember seeing him on public TV in the US when I was growing up.

[@JTHelectronics]

would love to know more about the hard disk instrument and the pipes, are they being played on a board with guitar pickups in the middle? great stuff as always!

[@cogwheelcrack]

2:40 - ❤ ... We actually made our entire first album like that ... sampling a broken radiator.

[@ToyKeeper]

Happy accidents are great. Artists definitely need to be good at recognizing and using these opportunities. OTOH, accidents are unreliable. So artists can't rely on them. Gotta have the core skills necessary to work without serendipity, and the awareness to take advantage of happy accidents when they happen.

[@Sool101]

@anambala you know, Burial made one of his first albums exactly the way you need to. He used Soundforge and was just cutting pasting parts without any grid. I highly recommend you do something similar, it suits you perfectly. And listen to the album Burial - Untrue, of course.

[@chent]

LOL, people call me the Bob Ross of whatever I am doing as well. In House music being repetative is like a feature of the genre, so it is weird that I still feel so drawn towards that genre. I love to keep any variations that are still musical in there, and people often say my music is not House at all because I sometimes struggle with leaving the drummachine alone, and create so many variations,

[@lukasheat6412]

wholesome

[@danielmcnamara_]

is there a part 2 yet?

[@bryceeklund944]

I know I'm a little off-topic here, but what're the stories with the instruments at 4:10 and 4:16? They definitely look like DIY products but is anyone aware of any sort of spec sheets or guides to them? Fantastic video and project otherwise, as usual.

[@reggiep75]

Guilty as charged.. I'm one of the many who've made the Bob Ross comparison, but it really is better to be compared to a legend! 😉👍

[@lundsweden]

Musicans have egos? Noooo waaaay! Lol! Really great episode by the way, I think one of your best. By the way what are the two rod things at 3:42? They sound great, whatever they are! Edit: Oh I think they are little pipes, I saw them later in the video.

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

Looks like a hard drive platter at 3:45 - what's happening with that?

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

I always thought that the only music making system needed was the CMI's FAIRLIGHT V but the Floppies are getting very hard to get.