So many videos in mountains forests or beach
Headphone and music.
Maybe i am old, but what do i miss here?
If you want to be connected with nature, turn of your headphones, and connect
This makes sense… music combined with nature… but setting up your equipment and make music in a forest, it makes me feel old and disconnected
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each to their own innit. you don’t have to like what other people do. you do what makes you happy and all will be well 
An inspirational setting to be creative in.
It is not about what i like or not… it is about what i understand or not… it influences me if i feel disconnected, i would like to understand… it is all good though…
I tend to agree. I‘ve bought a M:C last year with the intention to take it with me when I cycle or walk through nature to then sit down and make some music. I found out that I never used it and preferred to just enjoy nature, maybe read a book, when I arrived at a nice place. It’s nice to bring a field recorder though and try to work these snippets into my music when I‘m back home.
But I can see people being inspired in nature, so why not. Plus, performing in a nice nature location for a crowd or Youtube is something different. Why not use the different mood a beautiful forest or whatever transports us to for a performance? I like dancing in forest raves and in clubs, but it’s different vibes. As long as we respect nature as good as possible, sounds alright.
I shot a video on my patio, with a Mountain View in the background. Instead of in a bedroom. Got like 10x views. But I don’t really like it, playing outside. Leaves got blown on my keyboard, and it was windy.
I’ve tried playing outdoors and also didn’t get much out of it, you can’t see or hear anything
Yeah, it’s more of a visual thing for YouTubers, really.
It is possible for humans to do two things at once. The beach is steps away from my front door so I frequently bring my iPad, SP or now Digitakt with me. You can enjoy nature, and be inspired to work in after/during. Not rocket science.
I enjoy the sun, take a dip, maybe blow a few puffs from my vaporizer and if inspired—tap out what I’m feeling. Or, I just sample the moment and use it as a launchpad to share that vibe with folks who perhaps cant reach a beach.
iPhone is water proof so sometimes I record the ocean from beneath the waves. Is it possible to have natural sounds without bringing devices to nature? Rhetorical.
Nature is the ultimate inspo, of course people have always brought creative mediums (canvas/paints, instruments, etc) with them to create amongst the greatest muse in Life.
It’s absolutely valid thing. Digital detox is only one aspect, eventually you’d want to play something… maybe not synthetic.
I think there are even sociologocal studies how urban life has shaped modern techno and stuff like that. Music is closely tied to the environment (even if we prefer to think it’s not).
In the past people only played music outside or in caves. I think it’s a natural thing to do.
But i also understand what you mean. I once tried playing my Digitakt in the woods and it felt uncomfortable for me. I felt like a weirdo sitting their with my nerdy electronic equipment and headphones in the woods. And i couldn’t really connect with the nature around me.
Yeah, bang some sticks and chant if you are out there, right?
That‘s totally ok.
Music-making can be approached as a meditation, from that point of view it makes no sense to limit yourself to a studio-type setting all the time.
Watching people do electronic music is boring.
Boring as hell.
At least if they are outside there’s something to look at.
So it makes your youtube videos look good.
Id rather be in my studio making music, or out on a walk in the forest/mountains/beach etc
But not mixing the two.
It’s relaxing, pretty, inspiring, you name it! I’m mid-40s and I love sitting out on a blanket in the yard under a tree making tunes.
And maybe bagpipes
maybe it’s that they’re more often in nature than you and it gets boring at times. Or they just want to trigger you so you comment under their videos what you wrote in your original posting so they get more traction through the algorithms and your interaction.
Andreas Pavel, creator of The Stereobelt, the first portable music player (pre Walkman):
He states the initial test of prototype hardware took place in February 1972 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. After he pushed the play button to start the song Push Push by Herbie Mann and Duane Allman, he experienced a “floating” sensation as he watched the mountain snow fall, realizing that his device could provide “the means to multiply the aesthetic potential of any situation.”
to be fair… I bet Mark Zuckerberg had his Facebook idea as well in nature… and look how it all ended!!
Maybe we’d be better off when (if) we only could listen to music at home on vinyl!!! 
