[[Notes]]
- Topics: [[Creativity]], [[Self-understanding]]
- People: [[Pharrell]], [[Rick Rubin]]
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnahkJevp64
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## 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]].
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