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Why Make Music…
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Hello, and how are you today?
Welcome to Why Make Music…, the podcast hosted by ThinkTimm
This is episode 16 and this is the ThinkTimm Minute.
Welcome, this podcast, Why Make Music…, is a podcast that is curated and created by the thoughtful people at WDMN Damnation.
Why make music is a question that can be asked of any creator, and the creator may answer back and tell you everything that's on their mind.
I find it to be an excellent conversation starter. The reason why I say that is if you ask anyone with a passion about why they do what they do, or you make a statement in reference to Why Make Music.
Dot, dot, dot.
I am sure that you are guaranteed to get an answer that will completely satisfy your interest.
So without further ado, allow me to reintroduce myself to you.
I am what they call a ThinkTimm.That's T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M. I am a independent musician slash producer slash artist slash creator.
What I tend to do is speak about the creative process that runs through my mind and why I make the music that I make.
I know that it may sound a bit self-indulgent, especially when I'm emphasizing my vernacular this way.
But I decided I had to make it interesting, for we are on episode 16 of our great podcast.
The year is 2024. We only have several weeks left. And what are we going to do? Are we going to continue to create? Are we going to continue to share?
Are we going to investigate without discrimination? Are we going to satisfy our curiosities about the musical and artistic creative process that every creative goes through?
The answer to all of those questions is yes.
Well, let me begin by once again sharing with you the fact that I am not sponsored, created, or answering to any major record establishment, any established company out there.
This is just something that I love to do and I love to share.
As every episode in the past and in the future, all the sounds in the background are provided by ThinkTimm
T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M.
I repeat that quite frequently throughout the podcast, for I would like the algorithm to learn the flow of my name,
because it is very important and trying to assimilate into the system that is known as the internet to make a name for yourself, to brand the product that you have created and you are trying to share with the community around you.
So where shall I begin today?
Let's talk music.
What do you know about the creative process?
The reason I ask that is because you as a listener are very, very important to the creator of the sounds that you listen to.
Without you, sad to say, there would be no us.
We, as independent and as free thinkers as we are, we depend on an audience for reaction.
Yes, yes, yes, the passion alone drives us to create 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
And however long it takes this beautiful blue planet to circle the sun, but without interaction with an audience, it could be rather insane.
For we must share the art that we create.
We must interact.
We must find ways to entertain and keep the attention of those who listen.
If you do not believe the importance of a listener, you do not believe in the power of music.
Music can be the most important aspect that goes so overlooked in the journey of a human.
I say that because from all my research and studying, I've come to realize that music has been around as long as language and communication has.
It has been important for eons, a form of communication.
If it was not created by humans, it may have been created by the primal creatures that have roamed the earth prior to the highly developed humans
who started creating instruments on human made devices.
At times, those sounds were created to emulate the sounds which we heard in nature, such as the birds singing their beautiful songs.
The sound of wings flapping in the air, the sounds of hoofs and legs and feet pounding on the terrain to create a rhythm, a sound that echoes through the hills and valleys.
As humans, we had to emulate and create ways to incorporate that into our daily existence.
We realized that musical spirituality, connections to a greater force, was very integral in the part of our development.
From the very beginning, when you had leaders and communication within a community of people, stories were shared along with music.
Music was a way to help you remember, to help commit it to your mind, to help stimulate a story told.
A story told, a story heard, and who was it heard by? It was heard by an audience. It was heard by a listener.
I bring that back only to reiterate the fact of the importance of a listener.
If you were to see someone today in modern times speaking, singing, reciting, mastering the delivery of information,
no matter where they're at, if they were on a podium in front of millions of people, or if they were in an isolated area only speaking to one,
that listener would take and digest the words, the sounds that are being transmitted from said individual.
Now, can anyone be a creator? That is the question. That is the statement. Why Make Music…
Why do you think we create music in our time?
Part of our education system, to our little humans that we are trying to develop and grow into well-rounded creative thinkers, forward thinkers, future leaders,
they take music education as part of their basic learning.
Now, out of a class of, let's be ideal and say, 17 students, will each and every one of those students grow up to be a creator or begin creating at such a young age?
By no means no, but there will and always be standouts that will understand more so than the others.
As that goes in every situation of education, you have students that stand out in mathematics and literature and remembering historic facts, economics,
how to lead and how to use the education process to prosper.
I say that because just as we have politicians, we have lawyers, doctors, teachers, people who work in the professional medical career field,
which is so vast, we have people who work in accounting, we have engineers that design everything that we see around us.
That all comes from the initial thought of an imagination. Those things come from the initial thought of what you were taught to use your mind to think and to create everything from
computers to sound to artificial organs to vehicles that now drive and navigate themselves to all of the mighty AI creations and creators
that are now dominating our devices that we hold so sacred that pull us away from communicating with our peers,
that pull us away and educate us more so to be isolated and free to create and learn or to discover or even escape our daily lives.
We take for granted the creative process.
As a creator, I want to ask one question.
Why do you not create?
There will be a pause. I want you to think about it.
Five, four, three, two, one.
Do you have an answer?
Is your answer that, hey, ThinkTimm.
T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M.
I do create. I just don't create music. I just do not create art. I excel in other fields that I feel are equally, if not far more important than music and art.
I do plenty of things with my life that is far more important than music or art.
I believe you because I believe that everything is important. I believe that everything stands on the level of importance.
I just believe that to a particular percentage of the world, music is more important than most.
Artistic expression is more important to most.
I will say this only to never, ever take away the importance of anything that anyone does.
But I want to know when was the last time you watched an award show giving our educators, giving the instructors, the professors, the teachers,
an award the way you watched someone give an award to a musician, a singer.
That is the lopsided situation of the world that we live in.
We have made something that is so objectively opinionated based upon individual likes more important than the education of our society.
So, so crazy that a young human could become creative in their younger years and generate more revenue
that generations of their family will never have to work again.
That is a oddity. That is an anomaly in the system that we exist in.
We exist in a system that values playing the lottery, attempting to get into a field, a career that is based upon opinion, not fact.
And we award these individuals with such financial wealth that it is completely mind blowing.
And then when these creative people disappoint us, we chastise them for their mistakes when we, you, the listener,
did not take the time to make sure they were educated properly to understand the basic rights and wrongs of humanity.
I will tell you, there will be a televised ceremony to award all of the educators.
It will be aired on all major stations. It will be a 12 hour education fest to award the greatest educators of our time.
Should I change the name of my podcast to Why We Teach, dot, dot, dot, as opposed to Why Make Music, dot, dot, dot.
Do you get what I am saying? The level of importance, the level of what we pay attention to is completely insane.
The time and effort it takes to educate a person, the time it takes to grow an intelligent human being that will be functional in the world that we live in,
is overshadowed by creativity that is recreational and disposable.
The reason I use the word disposable is because from an economic point of view, those people who spend billions of dollars a year on musical and artistic content,
that is considered to be disposable income. The reason that it is disposable income is the simple fact that you are willing to throw that money away and you get nothing from it.
I am not saying it's a faulty system. I am just making note of the fact that we as a society waste our money on things that have no physical appearance.
No physical structure. As a creator, as a person who loves music, as a person that has done music, has made music for over the majority of my life,
I question the relationship that the average person has with music. There are psychological ramifications that come with music.
We have had people who have achieved great heights and has been influenced greatly by music.
They have people who have studied and achieved great things while having music in the background. There have been engineers who have created so many wonderful technological advancements
and recording audio and visual sounds. Think about it. The things that our eyes have taken in that we do not know whether they are real or not has been created by a human programming a computer
to create a computer thought pattern that will then enhance itself and make itself better.
We have all seen movies about the dystopian future when the computers and robots and androids and all things technologically based realized that the problem is the human.
We are at a point in time as musical creators that artificial intelligence is taking the place of music producers and musicians and vocalists and engineers.
We as creators want to ask the AI Why Make Music and I'm sure.com
The AI will give us an answer that is just as enlightening as an answer that would come from a human being.
It is completely interesting to me.
I feel as though music is music and we must embrace all aspects of creating.
I say that because once again I tell you even though I spend a lot of time a lot of my free time a lot of my non family responsible time making music.
I must tip my hat to all of the technological advances that have come in the last 20 years.
I recall being in a position where in order to get a quality sound recording. You had to go to a studio a recording studio and pay an outrageous price for someone to record your music for you.
You had to pay a large price to buy the proper recording studio equipment if you wanted to record in your home.
You had to technically master several if not all instruments if you wanted to work by yourself at your own pace whether it was slower than others or faster than others.
In the last 15 years or so technology has basically leveled the playing field and anyone with a thousand dollars can buy the proper equipment to rival well known producers and create what?
The average listener will say is good music.
In that same time, how has the education of humans of the average human who listens to the average song. I would like to see the numbers.
I want to see how the average listener has become more intelligent because of the technology that has grown in the field of educating our future leaders.
How has that grown alongside of educating our future creators.
I know that you should not be compared but think about it society as we know it. We think back to cultures that existed prior to our world that we live in now.
And what do we hear about? We hear about the ones who have risen above the average. These are the creators. These are the philosophers. These are the politicians.
These are the ultimate business CEOs, creators, investors, the movers, the shakers, the real estate moguls, the economists, the educators, the think tank.
Along with those people that basically rule and shape the world. We also have artists and musicians that walk hand in hand with the movement and the growth of society.
Why Make Music…That is my question. That is what I ask. That is what I like to talk about.
I like to think that music plays a very important role in the education of the average person.
Music plays a role because it has always been there. Just as we were learning mathematics and science, history, we were learning music.
People excel at different things. You must be able to do many things to exist and to move in this world.
My question to you as a creator, my question to you as a listener, why do you do what you do?
Are you fortunate enough to have a path to the future that satisfies your urges to be a productive, functional human?
Do you? When your program shuts down at night to get rest, when your brain is at rest, can you feel at peace because you know that you are giving your very best at what it is you do?
Can we shout out all of the educators, all of the parents that are keeping our future bright?
Can we shout out those who are trying to make a better life for themselves? No one, no one ever has said that this world that we live in is easy.
But you must think, you must plan, you must make a way to make excellent decisions and choices and move your life forward.
It is imperative that everyone understands what they are and the roles that they play in their existence.
If you want to achieve, you must commit to the thought that it will be.
That is why I make music. Why Make Music…
Hosted by ThinkTimm. T-H-I-N-K-T-I-M-M.
This was an idea that technology has allowed me to share. My music, the sounds I hear in my head, thanks to those who are way more intelligent than I, has created technology.
Allow me to share my music with the world. My music can be shared with everybody around the world.
It's completely unheard of. How? I don't question how, because I am capable of reading and understanding how.
My thing is, I must thank you as a listener. I must thank you as a person that may be curious and want to follow and think and listen.
I told you it could be a person standing on top of the world with the largest megaphone screaming.
Or it could be the person that is standing in the corner whispering.
We all have something to say. We all have something to share. We can learn from everyone around us.
It is up to us to take it in. It is up to us to ask questions. It is up to us to make statements and a statement to be as easy as a why.
Make music. This has been episode 16
Has it been ever so 15? Or is it really episode 16? I don't know. I've been at this for so long.
I want to thank everyone who has tuned in. This is episode 16. Why Make Music…
ThinkTimm, if nothing else. Try to find me on those social media accounts. I don't really have a presence. I just peruse sometimes.
But anywho, thank you for listening. Why make music? I'm going to let the music take you out.
I thank you. I thank you. I thank you. Peace. Be wild.
Thank you.