#36 - Pockets in the Cloud

Some of what was discussed in this episode:

• A Portable Paradise - A poem by Roger Robinson
• A continuation of the discussion about the "nutritional" value of music, contrasting BROCKHAMPTON with Trio Mandili
• Art that acknowledges your feelings but enables self indulgence vs art that elevates and connects to something bigger - what can we make of the contrast between these two?
• How does music make us feel "seen"
• Does the music acknowledge a listeners state of mind or drive it?
• Spider shouts out Faces of Death
• Ruairi contrast his experience of grunge and Irish Traditional music
• Music without place
• What can modern record makers do to embrace inclusivity and human immediacy?
• Modern music is denuded of the regional elements in a sort of homogenization
• Are foreign audiences less cynical about music than those in America?
• Is it the time and place, the context piece?
• Does Outkast Speakerboxxx/The Love Below feel like it's from Atlanta?
• Younger people are growing up in a modern statelessness. Their sense of the U.S. is abstract and disembodied. Living in Pockets in the Cloud?
• If one grows up without the connection to heritage, time or place will the strong & distinct flavors of other places have value? Are we witnessing a fundamental change in what connection means?
• Balaji Srinivasan influences Ruairi's thinking on the distributed future
• Spider - the purpose of audio engineers is to capture the human connection
• "Should I boost the top end or cut it?" - without a sense of the artists' intent how can we make technical decisions?
• Spider what you are responding to in Trio Mandili is their openness and vulnerability
• What do people fundamentally need on a deep level?
• Drummer Sam Kaufman Skloff
• Jon on mixing a song that isn't quite there - "The performance of a bad song is still a bad song"
• If you are showing up and you keep trying as a professional, then you have done what you are paid for
• "There is no place where the challenges are over, start enjoying making records now"
• Tim Ferriss interview question - What is the best thing that you have purchased for under a $100? The value of a bottle of wine
• "The language of drinking wine is to savor" - the communal nature, the signaling power of wine
• How are we adapting to the modern landscape?
• Jon feels himself shifting toward the lack of connection to music
• Studies on the positive effect of music on people - Psychology Today & Diva-Portal
• The value of time alone to really dive deep
• What is Michael's business STTTUS becoming? What is changing?
• What does it mean to be good at a lot of things but not be able to weave them together?
• Talking about the term multi-potentiality, Michael referred to this Ted Talk
• Million Dollar Consulting - Alan Weiss
• Michael's IG Live exploration of creativity with Ainjel Emme and the concept of "Deep Observation”
• Michaels description of how STTTUS can help with “The Four Quadrants”
• Ruairi challenges Michael - Who Michael is really? What are we really doing here? And the same question for his clients
• Exploring Micheal's strengths
• Seth Godin on Becoming a Category of One
• Jordan Peterson And Russell Brand on speaking your truth
• New Young Thug Record
• John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
• Anthony Fantano - The Needle Drop - The need for art criticism
• Audio engineer's aesthetic judgement, they need for a point of view and understanding taste
• Architecture, and frameworks of aesthetic judgement - belonging, thriving cities, public spaces and what they say about us
• Are moving away from shared understandings of beauty, form and art?
• Balboa Park San Diego
• Young artists want to be innovative, bold, and creative. The risk of a firehose of novelty
• Architect Louis Khan - My Architect Documentary

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