In CREAZEE Sprint 1, Massimo Curatella (Author) and Marco Genovesi (Musician and VFX Artist) talk about the creative process behind songwriting and ways to enter the creative flow.
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This episode is dedicated to David Orban, https://davidorban.com/ to whom I owe the motivation to do this.
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HOSTS
Massimo Curatella:
https://curatella.com/
Marco Genovesi
Music portfolio: https://www.marcogenovesi.com/music/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCoG-mXdJI2x_kTtou1Myfxg
Bandcamp: https://missinghorizon.bandcamp.com/
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/marcogenovesi
Angels by Frank Polucci Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2eWS6HQiFE
Lyrics (English and Italian): https://www.musixmatch.com/it/testo/Frank-Polucci/Angels/traduzione/italiano
Film director:
Alex Popescu: https://www.alexpopescu.net/the-run
CHAPTERS
0:00 Podcast introduction, thanks to David Orban
2:18 Marco Genovesi’s introduction. He wrote the lyrics for “Angels” by Frank Polucci
3:35 How to introduce guests. How to make a podcast interesting?
4:04 YouTube videos vs podcasts
4:51 Introducing multifaceted people in interesting ways
5:22 Skipping formality
8:15 The urge to communicate. Storytelling
8:58 Facilitating storytelling
9:34 Surprising yourself when creating is difficult
10:47 Writing song lyrics like sculpting
11:52 A song about human resilience
14:15 timeless content, trying to be helpful
15:16 Music as a lifesaver
15:38 Successful communication of feelings through music
17:03 Synergy between the music and the words as the cause
18:37 You create music because you must
20:38 Happiness rather than success. Vangelis and habitual creativity
24:03 How to have creative continuity?
26:24 Thinking about creativity and creating all the time
27:50 Synesthesia: visualize the story to write the lyrics
28:27 Visualizing the story fosters inspiration
29:37 Increase concentration by removing distracting noises
29:43 Being in a trance-like state visualize dialogues
31:08 Stopping to reflect
32:01 Using all senses to get inspiration
33:09 Getting in the zone
33:46 Joyous dance of creative flow
34:54 Alex Popescu created a video clip using Unreal Engine
35:58 Visualizing sound to write words and writing words to create images
36:50 What if the music were already there?
37:37 Happy accidents
39:02 Variety of approaches and keep reinventing yourself
40:41 Music is to express feelings. Moderation and incrementalism
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