#34 - Nobody Wants to Listen to Your Fear

<p>Some of what was discussed in this episode:</p>
<p><ul>
<li>Are the Conversations crew really "Some of the best Engineers in the world"?
<li>Charles Kenny on Twitter - <a href="https://twitter.com/charlesjkenny/status/1379550117578084352">"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.</a>
<li><a href="https://tim.blog/2021/03/24/balaji-srinivasan/">Balaji Srinivasan on Time Ferriss</a>
<li>A short exploration of incentives "Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome" - Charlie Munger
<li>Spider shares is passion for the Georgian Folk Trio - Trio Mandili - What is it that makes this music so powerful?
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PL91Egx_HYobgc6_malfa_sESXhPr4wW1l">Spider's selections here</a>
<li>Top 40 music - is it denatured?
<li>Mix tactics to humanize music - naturalizing synthetic sounds and modernizing classic & organic sounds
<li>How deeply are records made today connecting to young listeners? <a href="http://www.aliveinside.us/#land">"Alive Inside documentary and the power of music to connect deeply</a>
<li>How traditional music survives and is handed down - the aural and oral traditions
<li>Jon's NYC meals and the power of a simple, transcendent meal
<li><a href="https://www.viacarota.com">Via Carota</a>
<li><a href="ttp://askanyc.com">Aska</a>
<li>Intent in record making
<li>What can modern artists do to leverage whatever it is that makes trio Mandili special?
<li>Other people in the room, the power of collaboration
<li>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"
<li>Is modern record making often words on a page with no intent - effective nonsense?
<li>The timeliness of a recording and how it fits into a cultural landscape
<li>Michael captures the themes and recaps the conversation so far
<li>A working list of the attributes of timeless work</ul>
<ol><li>Generational
<li>Communal
<li>Natural/Rooted/grounded
<li>Personal
<li>Unprotected
<li>Unafraid
<li>Transcends the listener
<li>Brave
<li>Evidence
<li>High stakes
<li>Unencumbered
<li>Meaningful
<li>Rich with emotion
<li>Connected performers
<li>Honesty
<li>Historical</ol>
<ul><li>A discussion of the evergreen lessons in Shakespeare
<li>How Capitalism and modern markets are incentivized to decouple us from history
<li>What are we really optimizing for in the record making process?
<li>The early days of The Gift Shop and the importance of a technology free zone of piano & guitar to explore songs
<li>Songs, mixes and masters as "Closed Systems" where everything affects everything
<li>“Nobody wants to listen to your fear” - Spider
<li>Referencing other artists work - how and when?
<li>Active & dangerous elements in a song, mix, master - un-inhibiting the music
<li>Timelessness - the power and the pitfalls of this word in the studio
<li><a href="http://hazelriggbrothers.com/wp/">George Hazelrigg and his ideas on the personal vs the universal</a>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3ShtO5VCYa3ctlR5uzLWBa?si=hZatSPoJTuiUR7JOKr8_Xg">Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and The London Symphony Orchestra</a>
<li>"Music is a conversation between the past and the present, the artist and the listener" - Ruairi
<li>Joshua Redman and gutural saxophone, the endless variation of nature
<li>A conservative movement in music?
<li>How do we demand nutritious music?
<li>A discussion of context - why we focus on the pretty flower and not the pot, the soil, the water...
<li>Michael’s listening challenge - Actively decoding the meaning of words as group to empower progress
<li>"How do we discern innovation from decay?" - Spider
<li>What does it mean if modern singers don’t smile? 
<li>How often are you truly humbled by art? Regardless of the medium</ul></p>
<p>.....</p>
<p>http://www.convos.at</p>
<p>Produced and Mixed by Dylan Seals</p>
<p>http://www.hdaudiopost.com</p>
<p>"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</p>