#34 - Nobody Wants to Listen to Your Fear

Some of what was discussed in this episode:

Are the Conversations crew really "Some of the best Engineers in the world"?
Charles Kenny on Twitter - "I just got vaccinated by a woman born in Vietnam, with a vaccine created by two Turkish refugees living in Germany and manufactured by a US company run by a Greek migrant. Thank you, world.
Balaji Srinivasan on Time Ferriss
A short exploration of incentives "Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome" - Charlie Munger
Spider shares is passion for the Georgian Folk Trio - Trio Mandili - What is it that makes this music so powerful?
Spider's selections here
Top 40 music - is it denatured?
Mix tactics to humanize music - naturalizing synthetic sounds and modernizing classic & organic sounds
How deeply are records made today connecting to young listeners? "Alive Inside documentary and the power of music to connect deeply
How traditional music survives and is handed down - the aural and oral traditions
Jon's NYC meals and the power of a simple, transcendent meal
Via Carota
Aska
Intent in record making
What can modern artists do to leverage whatever it is that makes trio Mandili special?
Other people in the room, the power of collaboration
Music as a means to express the ineffable, to take over where the spoken and written word runs out - "I hope you have had the experience where a song has cracked you open"
Is modern record making often words on a page with no intent - effective nonsense?
The timeliness of a recording and how it fits into a cultural landscape
Michael captures the themes and recaps the conversation so far
A working list of the attributes of timeless work
Generational
Communal
Natural/Rooted/grounded
Personal
Unprotected
Unafraid
Transcends the listener
Brave
Evidence
High stakes
Unencumbered
Meaningful
Rich with emotion
Connected performers
Honesty
Historical
A discussion of the evergreen lessons in Shakespeare
How Capitalism and modern markets are incentivized to decouple us from history
What are we really optimizing for in the record making process?
The early days of The Gift Shop and the importance of a technology free zone of piano & guitar to explore songs
Songs, mixes and masters as "Closed Systems" where everything affects everything
“Nobody wants to listen to your fear” - Spider
Referencing other artists work - how and when?
Active & dangerous elements in a song, mix, master - un-inhibiting the music
Timelessness - the power and the pitfalls of this word in the studio
George Hazelrigg and his ideas on the personal vs the universal
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and The London Symphony Orchestra
"Music is a conversation between the past and the present, the artist and the listener" - Ruairi
Joshua Redman and gutural saxophone, the endless variation of nature
A conservative movement in music?
How do we demand nutritious music?
A discussion of context - why we focus on the pretty flower and not the pot, the soil, the water...
Michael’s listening challenge - Actively decoding the meaning of words as group to empower progress
"How do we discern innovation from decay?" - Spider
What does it mean if modern singers don’t smile? 
How often are you truly humbled by art? Regardless of the medium

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Produced and Mixed by Dylan Seals

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"Conversations Theme"
Performed by Hazelrigg Brothers
Composed by “Spider” Ron Entwistle, Geoff Hazelrigg, George Hazelrigg
Piano: George Hazelrigg
Bass: Geoff Hazelrigg
Drums: John O’Reilly Jr.
Mixed by Jon Castelli