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Welcome to Why Make Music…episode 13
Lucky number 13.
I'm your host, ThinkTimm .
That's T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M.
To those who have not been listening, I am the hosting curator of this lovely podcast called Why Make Music…
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It could be a question.
It could be a statement.
It could be the answer to all the questions and the replies that will open up the mind of a creative person every time you bring it up.
As a creative person, I tell you that there's nothing that we like to do more than talk about our ideas, our process, our processes, of how we come about to create.
I say that because I must give you the introductory backstory of what is a ThinkTimm
A ThinkTimm is an independent music creator, producer, artist, songwriter, graphic artist, free thinker.
I am an independent soul like the long in the universe wherever I go ahead.
I feel as though the future is right. The world is everything I need it to be.
The music I create is an extension of my thoughts and I want to share them with you.
By doing so, I hope that we can build a rapport, a community of exchange of ideas, a creative quid for quo.
You know, I make beats, maybe you sing, maybe you rap, maybe you recite beautiful poetry and my music appears in the background.
Maybe you have some visuals that might need some sound. That's where I Think Tim come in.
I would like to talk about the perception that people have when they view or listen to a video posted by a content maker,
a song posted by an unknown artist. Where do you mind go when you have no information about what you're watching or what you're listening to?
Hmm, makes me think. Leading up to this podcast, last week I did a podcast about a producer who influenced me.
And a producer that's rather prominent because he influenced many other producers who are currently working in the industry.
I hope you go back and check that out.
I must say before we get started, thank you, thank you, thank you to all the listeners and supporters out there.
I, as I say each and every week, I am so fascinated and humbled that you would take the time out of your busy schedule to listen to me read about my creative process.
For I, like I tell you, I am not a famous person by no means. I am just a homebody recording music and sharing my thoughts only forever expanding worldwide web.
So this week I was talking with someone and they said something interesting to me and I thought I would have to make a turn and come back and talk about it in more expansive conversation.
You know where else to do this is but on a podcast called Why Make Music.
If you don't know, I feel though Why Make Music… is the perfect introduction for anyone to talk about their process.
With that being said, the conversation I was having was about a person who was basically getting a little upset because on social media they were watching videos of creative people recording
and doing the normal everyday tasks more or less like a behind the scenes video and they were criticizing what they thought to be the lack of originality.
I say what they thought were the lack of originality because the person took the time to edit everything together in such a way.
It made it seem as though the flow was effortless.
First thing I said to the person I was talking to was, are you someone who basically takes in the artistic medium or do you create the artistic medium?
I say that only because I really believe that there is a difference in how you consume media whether it be visual or audio when you are a creative.
The reason I say that is that I am a firm believer that everything has pre-production value.
Everything needs to be put together in some way, some shape or form.
There are plenty of scenarios, situations in media that you are watching something live and there is no script or safety that involves sports or you wish that they are live and not corrupted by opinion.
Everything you watch from your news broadcast has nothing to do with how quickly the production gets done.
That is not the thing but that is where I go back to saying that you have to realize behind the majority I would say at least the high 90 percentile of most things that we visualize and see on social media
or the internet is thought about, it is put together, it is made, it is called content and these people are called content creators.
I think I will remind you like I tell you, I am older so therefore a lot of times half the people I am talking to are also older and some are more trendy at one point.
I find myself spending a lot of my time explaining the bridge or the liaison between cultures or generations of knowledge.
By no means do I know everything about technology that is going on but sometimes I have to be the person to explain the workings to someone that knows far less than I.
Sometimes I am the recipient of a crash course of information being told to me to enlighten me.
I am open to exchange information either way.
But the point that I am getting at is that your sincerity in your presentation of your production matters.
I say that only because as someone who creates music, makes music and does digital illustrations and I am always a creative person.
So I tend to peel back all the layers in every aspect of the media and I take it as what it is.
But sometimes, which is a lot of times, I forget that the average person doesn't do that and they mistake the casual five minutes of social media that people may post online a day or however you follow or however you watch it.
You watch a video and you think this person is living the most beautiful life in comparison to mine.
Not knowing that a lot of times it is put together and put out there for you to see.
I liken the video experience much so to the musical experience because with music, with recorded music, there is always pre-production and there is always post-production done.
And it is really rare that even when you watch performers play live, there was rehearsal.
There was some exchange of conversation and direction of where you are going. Your musicians have your creative sound might allow you to solo or step out or do something in the forefront or the background.
But for the most part, everyone who is playing knows what they are doing and where they are going.
There are many spontaneous scenarios going on but that is when your musician, intuitive steps in, you know where you know your progression and you know what is going to come next.
But you are jamming together.
So I view things like I said and majority of the time from a point of view of a musician. So when I see a video no matter how semi-interesting it may be, unless it is a real world situation where something was just happened to be caught on video, digital video,
however you want to call it and post it, okay that was real, that was live.
But when I watch somebody in their daily life do something with a camera that is already set up and the perfect angle is shot and the person is there, I am assuming that this person is doing this for the video and for the content.
I am assuming how large or how small it is, just the same way that I am sitting here. Now this may be completely unscripted off my head but I gave thought after I had the conversation with this said person that this was something I wanted to talk about.
So throughout the course of the week I came up with a point of view that I wanted to discuss and see how it flowed. I came at it with that angle saying oh yeah I am going to compare this to making music.
And I say that because as a creative and as the host of Why Make Music…,
I have to share the fact that sometimes I think that there is never enough that you could possibly do to put yourself out there.
I myself, just in case you were wondering where we're going, I am segueing into something else. So I myself ThinkTimm T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M was watching a video.
Now the person in this video was talking about the revenue flow of beatleasing and getting your music out there and the person was speaking of a funnel diagram with the Y in at the top and the narrow end at the bottom.
Now picture that in your mind. What he was talking about and introducing the idea is that there is no such thing as over saturating or overexposing yourself when you're trying to be creative and run a business.
Basically the wide berth of a funnel was basically the work that the creator puts in to spread his music through all the platforms, all the social medias, pass or fail, hit or miss.
You have to put yourself out there and you have to try to find the people who are going to listen to your music and like what you're doing enough that they want to engage because you must remember.
Right now when you the independent quote unquote do-it-yourself artist producer is at the initial stage of putting his music out there, you are not known.
Every famous person, every creative that has made a name for themselves has at one point or another been unknown.
It might have been at an early age, it might have been for the majority of their life, but that is something that you the creator, the artist has to overcome in order to move, circulate your product.
Your project, if you don't want to look at it as a product, you can look at it as a product, a project, a part of your creative being that you're trying to get out there.
Now, once you find an audience whether it be through social media, Twitter, X, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Blue Sky, YouTube, the streaming platforms,
IHearradio, Pandora, Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, once you get your music out there, what do you do?
Do you now gravitate to one song? Do you try to push one single? Do you try to make a video? Do you make it run?
I was told personally like, hey, why don't you just let it sit out there for a while and let it simmer, you know and see if it will catch on.
But my response was basically you have to understand everyone who does music, whoever makes music and being creative, you have to be true to yourself for whatever reasons that you're doing it.
What are your goals? My goals are not necessarily to get streams or to get airplay. So putting out one song hoping that that one song catches isn't really working towards my goal.
So I feel since if you listen to prior podcasts, I am trying to work this as a business.
I am trying to get into a more commercial field of use my music and the industry is called Sync Listening and that's when you basically put your music out there
and hopefully a sync agent or a sync library or a music supervisor will then perhaps pick it up and utilize it for something else.
You can try to market yourself of course like if I had a killer viral song that was going on and I would put it out there live.
But at the same point, if I am basically auditioning my music, the more music I have, the more options I have to get picked and selected for my music to be used.
Once again, as always, this is a commercial message from ThinkTimm and in the background is instrumental tracks, possibly drum tracks that I have programmed myself.
All the sounds that you hear in the background are original creations by T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M. Yes.
So, with that being joked about and said, what is too much creativity?
When I was having second conversations with a different person, we were engaging in what were my ThinkTimm, T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M's goals and what were inside.
I was planning to attempt to accomplish and my response was, I'm not planning to accomplish anything.
I am in the process of accomplishing everything.
The reason why I say it like that is that you, only you, must have the confidence in what you're doing and you must believe and live your life as though you were on that road.
Think about the world as though Albert Einstein has said that time is not living here.
Think about the world from a point of view of quantum physics and we are living in a world where layers and dimensions overlap upon themselves.
And what you've done, what you're doing, and what you will do is all existing at the same time.
I am there. I have accomplished my goals, my ideas. My future is now.
I am just waiting for it to arrive.
I'm warning y'all, metaphysical… people and talk about things that might necessarily confuse you.
But from time to time you've got to let a person know that you know the secrets of how things work in the world.
You know, I do understand that in order to create you are building an idea. You are creating music to be heard and to stay at all times, to join in to the large, large atmosphere of sound and design.
That is set out in the background and in the forefront of everything.
And what do you do? What do you have to offer people?
I say I offer it all. I will never stop creating. I hope you never stop listening.
This is the journey that we are on. This is something I have done my entire life. This is something that has brought me joy. This is my release.
That was my answer if ever there was a question to why make music.
Do you understand the passion that goes into being a creative?
All of the empty hours you spend by yourself practicing, creating, testing ideas before you decide to share them, before you decide to commit them to the space on your hard drive.
Many times, let me see a show of hands, when you were just sitting there trying to find a proper sound and you were going through, you were clicking on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of timbers and sounds and they all sound good.
They all sound great. They sound wonderful. And you settled on something that only you know was possibly your 17th choice.
And in your mind you like number 7 better, but this one went with everything else that's going on.
So basically when you listen to the song you like, the song that everyone else likes, isn't the song you're listening to because you are listening to the one with number 7 on it.
So every time you hear it you think of another version that did not make it. And it's an inside joke to you.
I tell my friends all the time, creating music and creating any project is like living in the future. Think about it. Think about your weekend. Today is Friday.
If you go to a movie and you want to see something that might perhaps influence what you're going to do for the next week and what you're going to like and what you're going to get into,
the conversations that you might have with your friends, your family, your coworkers based upon the visual or based upon the song that you heard, the performance that you witnessed,
do you realize that that was created possibly a year or years ago and is just being injected into the world right now.
So there's a group of people who already had the discussions that you were having about the new thing that you have just experienced.
That they've talked it through and they've produced it and put it together and put it side by side with situations that weren't as fruitful or pleasant or did not spark the conversation that this one did.
The trial and error of the pros and cons will wait and now after it's all said and done, it is open for the world to listen to, to look at, to critique and have conversation.
While the people, the person, the creator who made this is living in the future and working on something else.
Do you understand how deep and how crazy it is? That's why I say I hope that only what we have is hopefully live news and sports that's not scripted in such a way that we cannot.
Look at a group of people as though they are the insiders and know how it goes already.
I say that only to say that everything a creative person does you have to drop all everyday normal standards and put them aside.
The reason why because when I reach my delivery point, when I become the conversation that you are having in the future about the music that I am putting out now.
That I created a while ago when I am currently creating new tracks as we speak that will be heard in the future.
You are listening to my past. You are enjoying things that I did in the past.
It's like looking through a telescope at the stars, at the heavenly bodies twinkling in the sky and knowing that those actual lights that are radiating to our beautiful planet may be exhausted because of the distance and the time between them.
Do you get what I'm saying? You can create a world, a point of view. You can create a conversation to be had in the future based about something you have written and created in the past.
When you had that conversation 10 years ago when you made that track there, when you put that pen to paper and wrote that lyric.
Did you think, did you ever think that later in life someone would take it and think it were new and talk about it as though it just occurred and it did not?
Have you ever heard a song in her lyrics that relate to your life? Have you ever watched a film and thought, oh my, this is me?
Have you ever read a book and in every page drew you in because, oh my, I can relate. That is the power of the mind and the power of the creative that creates that medium for you.
It is supposed to pull you in when you look at your Instagram feed and you see the videos that the algorithm has lined up for you to watch.
And all of a sudden you find that time has escaped you and there's time you will never get back and everything you saw was just as interesting as the last thing that you are in.
And you are liking and you are sharing and you can't wait to go have conversation about this.
It was created for that purpose.
People don't post things by accident.
People don't put out things by mistake.
When I
when I'm introduced to the world on the level that I want to be, you will go back and you will say,
ThinkTimm, T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M also have a podcast called Why Make Music…
He spoke about his creative process while he was creating the music that we love so much.
I did not know that this song has existed. I did not know that these lyrics were written about this. It touched me so I assumed it had to be written about what's going on right now.
Let me tell you the greatest thing is the mind. We do not use our minds enough and our minds use us all the time.
Do you understand? Everything that we do is just part of the preordained destiny that we are meant to fulfill in the world.
As a creator, we may be a small percentage of the people who consume the product, the projects that we create.
But we are so important to the existence of this universe that our thoughts are mixed and matched into the fiber woven by the stars.
And what do we do? We create life and ideas to grow.
We lay the foundations to be had about situations, about thoughts and emotions that have happened in the past, that have not happened as of yet, that might be brand new.
Five years from now when they talk about the ideas that were birthed forty years in the past, what are you going to do when you realize that the answers have always been here in front of your face,
always have been inside your head? All you have to do is think.
T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M
All you have to do is think, create. Everything you see started with an idea. Everything you have thought, everything you have is a thought, an idea.
It was something that had to be introduced and created to make a person, make a human feel a certain way.
A need, want, inclusion, love, friendship. You need to have it. You want to have it. You hate it because you don't got it. You have to get it.
How are you going to live without it? How do I live with it if I don't understand it? If I don't understand it, how do I even know that I love it?
These are the inner workings, the woven parts of the mind that will bother and confuse you until you have a point where your mind cannot make sense of what's going on and you want to know,
Oh my God, how did he know that she was going to come through that door in that moment and he was filming and oh my God, her reaction was wonderful?
Or is there four hours of tape where he was waiting for this moment or was it pre-planned?
Hmm. Sometimes you just don't know what the answer is going to be. Sometimes you just don't know if it's real or not.
We live in a world where you want to believe everything is original or can't.
Nothing is contrived and no one has any malicious plans and it's always crazy, it's always on board.
But you have to realize there are a few things that are not planned out prior to them occurring. You may have heard someone say something so inspirational.
Oh, cue the music. It was so inspirational that it sounds familiar and it made you think, Oh my God, I've reached the end of my road.
And how, and if only how do I get in there? How do I know that everything is going the right way?
How much time have I spent involved following and loving and laughing and sharing Instagram, Facebook, friends? Happy birthday to you.
I don't even know you, but I saw the pose and someone said it was your birthday. Thank you.
How I like that. How do you do that? Oh, positive affirmation. That doesn't feel good. Do you really need it? Do you really need it?
Let me tell you, there are books, there are ways to take in knowledge personally. One of them, what have you read in the book?
Have you read the book today? Better read them because of all the unsaid and air-painted on the books. That's the one with the information. So, like Dr. Seuss on the loose.
We have finished, we have finished, go finish what you wish. You wish you had every answer you wish. You can't keep that door.
And more and more, I tell you more. I don't know, but I do know you can hit me up on socials. Thank you once again for listening.
This has been the Podcast. Why make music? I want to send a shout out to all the creative people out there.
Continue to follow, continue to like. Hit me up, subscribe, tell me is it live or are we just living in the past?
Talking about the future, kicking it around, trying to be underground. But you know it's all about that sound.
The sound that's going round, coming to party with me in my town. I tell you, it ain't nothing greater. I'll see you later.
Until I'm out. T-I-N-K-T-I-M-M.