[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Creativity]], [[Self-understanding]] - People: [[Pharrell]], [[Rick Rubin]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnahkJevp64 --- ## Summary - [[Music is ultimately about feeling]]. - "[[Chords are coordinates. They send you to a place.]]" - "[[I'm trying to remember the feeling because when I go to chase it later, I'm going to have to reverse engineer the feeling in order to get the chord structure.]]" - [[To feel music is to be connected to the conversation of the song]]. - "[[If you do the same thing, you're just going to make another one of those - really well.]]" - [[Evolution is defined by difference accepted]]. - [[Self expression is self understanding]]. ## Notes - [[Music is ultimately about feeling]]. It can be a simple chord progression doesn't have to be technical, like the mathematics of complex time signatures. - "[[Chords are coordinates. They send you to a place.]]" - Pharrell. - If Pharrell is lucky enough to be in the right time in place where a piece of music is being played, if it resonates, he tries to remember it for later. - "[[I'm trying to remember the feeling because when I go to chase it later, I'm going to have to reverse engineer the feeling in order to get the chord structure.]]" - Leverage whatever tools you can to capture the feeling - the moment of inspiration. - In the case of Pharrell and Rick Rubin, it would be Shazam. - While listening to the music, while experiencing the medium, examine yourself. Try to understand what you're feeling and why you're feeling what you're feeling. - [[Art is the transfer of emotion from the maker to the experiencer]]. - "There's a whole University of Science between what's being played in what you're hearing" - Pharrell - "[[Analyze yourself as much as a music]]" - Rick Rubin. - [[Feeling is understanding]]. - "If I can't see how I feel about it, then I don't even know what it is, is just music." - Pharrell - [[To feel music is to be connected to the conversation of the song]]. - Feeling is connecting. - "We've not sold anything. We've only made music and people choose to stream it, share it, buy it, whatever. We're not responsible for it. Our success. Millions of people are responsible" - Pharrell. - Leave your ego at the door. - Nudge, pull, poke, and prod to get to places you normally would not go to get different results. - "[[If you do the same thing, you're just going to make another one of those - really well.]]" - Pharrell - The exploration of newness requires trust and vulnerability. Trust in others, trust in yourself, and the courage to be vulnerable - to show genuine uncomfortability. To react and to adapt naturally. - [[Expressive exploration is about capturing the natural emotional response of experiencing and reacting to something new]]. - Pay attention to the subtle differences. - Identify that which is top of mind. Then try to figure out how to understand it through self expression. - [[Self expression is self understanding]]. - (Making tracks) "...Sometimes I think about where they're gonna go, just to make them... I have to channel" - Pharrell. - "[[I try to show them sides of themselves they don't ever use]]." - Pharrell. - To be whole, you must explore the sides of yourself that you're uncomfortable or unfamiliar with. - "I guess I only like eclectic people." - Pharrell. - What would be different about a project if you were involved? - Difference is interesting. Difference is special. [[Evolution is defined by difference accepted]]. (Stopped at 15 minutes and 33 seconds. To be continued.) ## Original ![[Pharrell and Rick Rubin have a conversation (Part 1)-1.jpg]] ![[Pharrell and Rick Rubin have a conversation (Part 1)-2.jpg]] ![[Pharrell and Rick Rubin have a conversation (Part 1)-3.jpg]]