[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":142},["ShallowReactive",2],{"codex-\u002Fcodex\u002Fpermission-to-enjoy-it":3,"codex-around-\u002Fcodex\u002Fpermission-to-enjoy-it":130},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"cover":104,"date":105,"description":106,"draft":107,"extension":108,"faq":109,"kind":116,"meta":117,"navigation":118,"noindex":107,"ogImage":104,"path":119,"readingMinutes":98,"seo":120,"seoDescription":121,"seoTitle":122,"standfirst":123,"stem":124,"tags":125,"updated":104,"__hash__":129},"codex\u002Fcodex\u002Fpermission-to-enjoy-it.md","Permission to Enjoy It",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":96},"minimark",[9,13,19,26,29,34,37,40,47,50,54,57,60,63,66,70,73,76,79,87,90],[10,11,12],"p",{},"There is a video going around of the Brooklyn artist Wizard Skull explaining how\nto make your art. It lasts under a minute and the whole method is this: don't\novercomplicate it. Get a little space set up. Get some nice drinks. Get your\nsupplies out. Sit down. Have fun.",[14,15,16],"blockquote",{},[10,17,18],{},"This is supposed to be fun.",[20,21],"embedded-player",{"height":22,"provider":23,"src":24,"title":25},620,"Instagram","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fp\u002FDRNcJ3fj7Uc\u002Fembed","Wizard Skull on how to make your art",[10,27,28],{},"This page has now spent five entries on monthly listeners, cap tables,\nalgorithmic skip rates, promoter margins and club closure statistics. All of it\nis true, and I would write all of it again. But none of it is why anybody picked\nup an instrument, and if a Codex is a set of working principles then this one\nbelongs near the front.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"what-is-actually-happening-when-you-make-something","What is actually happening when you make something",[10,35,36],{},"The word \"expression\" has been worn smooth, and it makes the whole thing sound\nlike broadcasting — as if you have a self and the work is the announcement of\nit.",[10,38,39],{},"That is not what it feels like. What it feels like is that you noticed\nsomething. A mood you have no name for. A feeling you can't place. Some hunch\nyou can only sense the edges of — the light in a particular hour, the specific\nquality of a room at four in the morning, a sadness that isn't quite sadness.\nThen you spend a few hours trying to build a thing that holds it still.",[41,42,44],"codex-note",{"kicker":43},"The whole business",[10,45,46],{},"You are not announcing yourself. You are celebrating an atmosphere you noticed\nand cannot otherwise keep.",[10,48,49],{},"That is the entire transaction, and it completes before anybody hears it.\nWhether it later finds an audience is a separate question, and a real one — I've\nwritten enough about the machinery to know it matters. But it is a second\nquestion. The first one closes in the room where the thing got made.",[30,51,53],{"id":52},"the-advice-is-better-than-it-sounds","The advice is better than it sounds",[10,55,56],{},"The practical half of his method is easy to skim past because it sounds like\nnothing. Set the space up. Nice drinks. Supplies out. Sit down.",[10,58,59],{},"But that is most of it. Almost nothing that stops people from making things is a\ncrisis of talent or inspiration. It is friction — the cables that need untangling,\nthe session that has to be rebuilt, the tidying that comes first, the twenty\nminutes of setup standing between an hour of free time and using it.",[10,61,62],{},"Leave the machines out. Leave them plugged in. Have the drink already there.\nLower the cost of beginning until beginning is the easiest thing available to\nyou. Discipline is mostly logistics wearing a serious face.",[10,64,65],{},"And \"bring snacks,\" as he adds in the caption, is not a joke. Nobody makes\nanything good while low-level hungry and vaguely annoyed about it.",[30,67,69],{"id":68},"why-this-belongs-on-this-page","Why this belongs on this page",[10,71,72],{},"\"Emotional Dancefloor Atmosphere\" has always been a claim about mood rather than\nabout genre. Which means the thing this whole project is nominally for is\nexactly what Wizard Skull is describing: noticing an atmosphere and building\nsomething that holds it.",[10,74,75],{},"It is embarrassingly easy to lose sight of that while arguing about payout\nmodels. The arguments still need making. But they are arguments about protecting\nthe conditions for the work — they are not the work, and confusing the two is\nits own kind of defeat.",[10,77,78],{},"So: get the space set up. Get a drink. Zone out. Make the thing that only makes\nsense to you.",[80,81],"codex-cta",{"body":82,"href":83,"kicker":84,"label":85,"title":86},"A mix built around mood rather than genre — including a demo made for no reason other than that it wanted to exist.","https:\u002F\u002Fsoundcloud.com\u002Fhybrid-flight\u002Fhybrid-flight-emotional","The work","Listen on SoundCloud","Emotional Dancefloor Atmosphere",[88,89],"hr",{},[10,91,92],{},[93,94,95],"em",{},"Source: Wizard Skull, posted 18 November 2025. The quoted line follows that\nclip.",{"title":97,"searchDepth":98,"depth":98,"links":99},"",3,[100,102,103],{"id":32,"depth":101,"text":33},2,{"id":52,"depth":101,"text":53},{"id":68,"depth":101,"text":69},null,"2026-08-31T15:00:00","Wizard Skull's advice on making art is to set up a space, get a drink, sit down and have fun. After five entries about the machinery, that is the part worth saying out loud.",false,"md",[110,113],{"question":111,"answer":112},"What is the point of making art if it does not sell?","Making something is how a person holds on to a mood, a feeling or a hunch long enough to look at it. That function does not depend on an audience or a sale. Work made for its own sake is also, in practice, where most of the work worth hearing comes from.",{"question":114,"answer":115},"How do you start making something when you feel blocked?","Reduce the friction rather than increase the discipline. Set the space up before you need it, leave the instruments out and plugged in, keep a drink and something to eat at hand, and lower the stakes of the session until starting costs nothing. Most creative blocks are setup problems wearing a more dramatic costume.","Field Note",{},true,"\u002Fcodex\u002Fpermission-to-enjoy-it",{"title":5,"description":106},"Brooklyn artist Wizard Skull on not overcomplicating it. On why making things is supposed to be enjoyable, and what an artist is actually doing when they express something.","Making art should be fun — a reminder from Wizard Skull","Every argument on this page so far has been about the systems around the work. None of them is why anyone started.","codex\u002Fpermission-to-enjoy-it",[126,127,128],"art","creative practice","making music","CMLyBLeV-o7UtPUKMDE5pVElkzvdfVFaHLu1gshioFg",[131,137],{"title":132,"path":133,"stem":134,"description":135,"kind":136,"children":-1},"Keep the Money","\u002Fcodex\u002Fkeep-the-money","codex\u002Fkeep-the-money","Jane Fitz told a small London promoter to keep her fee and spread it among the other DJs. On Scuba's podcast she explains why she does it, and why she refuses to say anyone else has to.","Response",{"title":138,"path":139,"stem":140,"description":141,"kind":136,"children":-1},"Play the Room You're In","\u002Fcodex\u002Fplay-the-room-youre-in","codex\u002Fplay-the-room-youre-in","DVS1 walked into a festival room of fifty people and refused to play like there were five thousand. On reading the situation, and on treating a lineup as one piece of music rather than four auditions.",1789031394135]