00:00When I heard you were teaching a class at NYU, I thought this was perfect, because I was thinking about when you came out, 2012-ish, 2013-ish with Adorn, and the music industry was always going through a big transition, but since then, it's been completely turned up on its head.
00:14And I am curious as to what the students ask you about the music industry, or at least what they want to know about how they can be in the music industry.
00:21Yeah, the course that we designed for my residency at NYU is actually more about how artists across all mediums can be effective in this paradigm.
00:36So I get to answer questions about the music industry, as well as questions about the film and TV industry across the fine art.
00:44I think it's really keying in on how important leverage is to really making any kind of change.
00:52I'm curious, and I feel like in the old days, at least when I was younger, artists of all types, you pretty much had to go through kind of these big corporations to be heard or be seen, and that's changed a lot.
01:02Obviously, the Internet has democratized things a lot, so you have people that have no ties to big business that can become big artists.
01:10Exactly. I think that's where the key is for all artists across anything, and I think we're seeing so much success come from people in their small niche that there's plenty to learn from if you just pick up your phone.
01:26The truth is that there's a lot of antiquated systems that need updating, need upgrading, and we have the power and we have the ability to kind of leverage our audiences to make the systems work in our favor.
01:37Well, talk to us about the influence of social media and how that can be used as a tool, because I'm in my 30s.
01:44I'm not exactly in high school, but even through TikTok, I feel like I've been introduced to a lot of new artists, a lot of new songs that I might not have found otherwise.
01:54Valid, super valid. This is the biggest blessing, I think, for artists, for creators across all mediums, like we're saying.
02:03How you can do that is really about you figuring out what it is about your point of view, what it is about your interests that are uniquely yours, and I think repeating, rinsing and repeating.
02:15But I'm not a social media expert. That's not my thing at all.
02:19What I want to key in on in this course at NYU is how important community is and how important point of view is, how important really speaking about what we're seeing in the world, whatever it is that's important to each other, to the artists.
02:37That's what I think keeps and honors the importance of art, art has the power to bring people together through emotionality and help us kind of see past the differences that we use to kind of are used to divide us.
02:53And I think that's where if we look at history, we can use it to our advantage to really come together through art so as to change the systems in our favor.
03:04Well, I'm really curious to hear your opinions on the influence that AI has had when it comes to the music industry, when it comes to art, because so far from what I've seen, there's, you know, a really passionate pushback against using AI to make art.
03:18But I wonder if you, you know, see any good that can come from that.
03:22There's some technology has always been a part of creativity.
03:27You know, I think as a human race, we are always looking for ways to optimize our time, make things easier, more efficient.
03:36Some things, you know, have shown us the value of not taking the quick and easy route.
03:45But I think we'll always be using technology with art as we progress as a race.
03:51There are there are several projects where I think AI is used in a really interesting way.
03:58I was talking about I was talking with one of my best friends earlier today about how AI is being used in choreography or with a choreographer and how they're using it to inform it.
04:07And it's it's beautiful.
04:09It's a modern art performance where she's playing off of AI.
04:14Really interesting ways to do this.
04:15The interesting part to me is that we're not using AI to solve bigger problems.
04:21We're using AI to figure out how to make money, you know, and how to how to answer, you know, it's as opposed to solve world hunger.
04:28You know what I mean?
04:29Or to figure out how we can make everybody play together in a better way to stop, you know, to stop catastrophes and to stop wars and people being taken advantage of.
04:41That's what I think is important.
04:42And in the course, the course is called Speaking Chaos to Power.
04:47There's a little bit about how AI can be used to leverage to leverage community again to to make the change that we want.
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