[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Creativity]], [[Self-expression]], [[Self-understanding]] - People: [[Devin Townsend]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-iLIozUrHs --- ## Summary - Your craft, your passion, is a vehicle for self discovery. - [[There's significance in the discovery and expression of instinct - that which makes us uniquely human, and that which makes us a unique human]]. - Express your creative freedom that most accurately articulates the **resonance** you wish to echo. - [[Resonance is not thinking. It is feeling.]] - Self discovery is a continuous never ending process. A process of discarding who you are not, refining the ideas of who you are. - To be true is to have your outward identity, the perception of others, resonate with your inward identity, your perception of self. - **Be yourself. Be happy. Make others happy too.** ## Notes ### Natural dynamicism - "If I'm not in an environment that has some sort of **natural dynamicism** to it, then I just don't find myself inspired." - Natural dynamicism inspires naturally dynamic expression. - "It's nature and the **connection** of something that's not a city, plays into it." ### Primal instincts - "Any moment that I've had of **significance** either spiritually or musically seems to be tied to something **primal**." - [[There's significance in the discovery and expression of instinct - that which makes us uniquely human, and that which makes us a unique human]]. - Experiencing primal instincts reminds us that we are all animals. Animals living together in a shared home we call "Earth". - Evolution comes from the divergence of primal instincts through progressive growth. - "Maybe what **connects** the (metal) scene... Is the power (tribal/primal) that comes from it. That **visceral** sense of almost community when you're playing live." ### Expressing resonance - "This sense of something that is bigger than I, whether or not that's the idea of the universe, nature, birth, death... Those big blunt topics seem to **resonate** through me." - "Whatever it is you're trying to resonate with, I don't think there's a musical style that you can as **accurately articulate** the **fundamentals** as there is with this type of music (metal)" - Express the style that most accurately articulates what you are communicating to most effectively echo resonance. - Clarity is in the simplicity. Simplicity is in the forms closest to instinct. - [[Resonance is not thinking. It is feeling.]] ### Identity and self expression - (Metal) "It's a primary component in my creative life, but one component." - "My identity is so lost on me. Each record that I do is a matter of **peeling it away - what I'm not**". - The process of self discovery is a process of simplification - the act of removal. Like a sculptor removing material to reveal the identity of the form within. - [[Kung fu values the wonders of the ordinary, and the idea is not daily increase, but daily decrease]] - "You guys have been Meshuggah (band) since minute one. All it's done is refine itself so every aspect of it becomes more and more clear. And the point is just now so 'unfuckwithable' that it's just blinding." - Know yourself. [[Honestly expressing yourself | Honestly express yourself]]. Your outward identity, one that is perceived by others, should resonate with your inward identity, your perception and understanding of self. - Be relentless in being yourself at every moment. [[Moments are what give memory meaning]], and [[Moments are what life is made of]]. - (Self discovery) "It's a **process** of trying to figure it out and it has resulted in something that I'd like to claim as being intentional, but it is not." - "Doing metal is a lot like doing porn, if you're doing anything else." - There is an outward perception of your identity based on how you choose to express yourself. A convenient classification of superficial judgment, blinding you from seeing the totality of who someone truly is. - "**I like making people happy**. I'd rather got out and give people something fun." - "There's something to be said of never being invited to the cool kids table, because then you're not afraid of failing, or saying that's important to you." - "I'm not trying to offend people. I'm not trying to push people's buttons. I just wanna do what I wanna do. Creative freedom is paramount." ## Original ![[Devin Townsend interview about his relationship with metal-1.jpg]] ![[Devin Townsend interview about his relationship with metal-2.jpg]] ![[Devin Townsend interview about his relationship with metal-3.jpg]] ![[Devin Townsend interview about his relationship with metal-4.jpg]]