Jacob "One thing I've been thinking about recently" Collier

@hezekiahdaggett2179

4 жыл бұрын

Lol nice

@mac_sour

4 жыл бұрын

Jacob “My music gives you my toes” Collier (5:33)

@singit3630

4 жыл бұрын

...which is actually 20 things...

@thiswlad

4 жыл бұрын

"a lot" :)

Watching Jacob explain his process is literally worth more than my entire music education. He inspires me to just experiment and just create what is important to me and feels good...getting away from the worry about sounding formally "right". It will sound right once you allow freedom run its course.

@chrisa0001

2 жыл бұрын

@@MishMashi he’s a college faculty all by himself.

@joshuapeacock17

Жыл бұрын

true true but ig you gotta know really good, foundational (sometimes mundane) basics through and through in order to even be able to just do whatever you want and experiment (not sayin you cant experiment w/o being an expert but the education is def fundamental)

@dominikn19

3 ай бұрын

So true.

@machitect

2 ай бұрын

Ditto :)

This was my therapy session oh my god

@headrat1

4 жыл бұрын

I felt the same way. When they talked about fear and examining the present moment and linking that with performance and getting out of the way? Well, they both have such emotional coherence in their music, in themselves and for one another.

I was going to watch 5 minutes but couldn't turn this off. Just a fascinating conversation - and inspiring. I totally love the contrast between the ever-smooth Whitacre and the never-chill Collier - and both are 100% genuine and honest. Even the rooms behind each of them are physical representations of their minds and their music. Eric's is designed, flawless, thoughtful, immaculate, interesting, and beautiful. Collier's is OH MY GOD PUT THIS IN THERE TOO AND SQUEEZE THIS IN THERE ALSO BECAUSE WHY NOT AND I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY YET BUT IT WILL BECOME CLEAR. Great conversation.

Eric Whitacre AND Jacob Collier?! Yes, please.

8:10 for when they solve technical difficulties

@elinemay

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@elinemay

4 жыл бұрын

@@laurencelong Laurence! Haha

@jacobhelbig6967

4 жыл бұрын

eline and laurence!

@elinemay

4 жыл бұрын

​@@jacobhelbig6967 hahaha yay almost united! Let's see if the rest follows...

@helenpanshin5589

4 жыл бұрын

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I feel so much better about life, art, myself, the world and everything - after listening to this conversation. Thank you.

___________________________Questions Order___________________________________ -Albums 12:30 -Creative Process 14:25 - Naming an Ideia and balance between sensibility and control 22:05 -Emotion Intelligence and audience 29:03 -Chords in music and stretching 34:35 -Leraning from thinking vs experimenting 42:50 -Authenticity 1:00:00 -Jacob Collier Room 1:05:00 -Arpeji 1:10:00 -Filosofating 1:13:00

@Herfinnur

4 жыл бұрын

Mr. Whitacre, please pin this!

@tiagoribeiro8358

4 жыл бұрын

@@Herfinnur eheheheh thanks man

@reev9759

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this service

@joaofarias6473

4 жыл бұрын

Obrigado Tiago! Foi muito útil 😎

@pabloduran8100

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you brother 🙇🏻‍♂️

"Hans, he's such a kid aint he?" Jacob 2020 Love it

@headrat1

4 жыл бұрын

Jacon's got such humor and authenticity when he talks about others

"Emotional Architecture" What a great way to describe a composition. "The inner child always knows." Wisdom.

Jacob encourages me to self reflect all the time and its crazy

This interview, this dialogue, this conversation alone is testimony to how multifaceted complete musicians like Eric and Jacob are. This conversation pulls upon so many other areas other than music including: philosophy, psychology, linguistics, spiritual experience, poetry, music (the list goes on). Goes to show how well-educated a musician can be intellectually, philosophically, and emotionally to have their audience step away from the conversation feeling that they have learned much more than just music. These two are the perfect duo as both can illustrate their musical ideas extremely well with words and the choicest metaphors.

This made my entire 2020.

These two are like infinity stones of the music world. So awesome seeing this~

the last hour and a half of my life watching this was maybe the most eye-opening creative masterclass i've ever seen

JC is such a brilliant person, with tremendous scope, and depth, and purpose. I am thrilled he is right where he is supposed to be.

In this world only the freedom is music . Free music

Love the discussion between these two musicians and composers. Feel inspired. Thank you. Can't wait for parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8.

@jakobjager6878

4 жыл бұрын

And 9.

@hezekiahdaggett2179

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Daiwie44

3 жыл бұрын

I have a good hunch about part 17, don't know what it really is, but I just know it's gonna be good!

Jacob Collier's biggest super human achievement is that the more I see his interactions and music, the more I can relate to him. This fellow is transparent to an extraordinary level. It is like every person can see a reflection of themselves in the mirror that he presents (not unlike his description of every note fitting a chord/scale/?). Including us all in the moments when we are overwhelmed by his music. It is like seeing a side of ourselves we are too inhibited to act on, but recognize, when we see it and it dwarfs us.

My choir kid/ music theory fan dreams are fulfilled. This is incredible

As a choir nerd, how did I not know this existed sooner?

Wow. I I thought I'd watch 5 minutes of this...90 minutes later i wish you guys had gone on longer! Thank you both so much for a really inspiring and thought provoking conversation. :)

My two favorite modern musicians talking to each other for an hour and a half and only now do I find this

Wow! Best masterclass ever! Can't believe I didn't have to pay for it! The best hour and a half I've ever spent.

@headrat1

4 жыл бұрын

I know huh. Their generosity reminds me of how we learn to share and where we get taught competition

This is the best conversation on creativity I've ever heard! Jacob is a mastermind at explaining everything. Thanks Eric!

This just fed my soul. Watching you two speak to one another as modern day composers who influence one another is such an amazing thing to witness as a music educator. How amazing to watch you both and be able to be a "part" of your amazing conversation. Thank you.

I came here to hear more about their music skills but I didn't expected these two 'guru's' exchanging wisdom of life!

15:05 "--- so I try to postpone my believing of anything, I guess as long as I can, because once you quantify things to something that you know, then you are basically projecting your past on to it..."

As a writer I found myself listening to these comments about music, composition, harmony, etc. But I have the feeling they are talking always about something else. Some many things I have learned by them could work with my writing. So pleased and so grateful, I am. Thanks Eric & Jacob

Amazing! About 20 minutes in I started taking notes. I'm nearly done a music degree and I've never felt so compelled to take notes, such valuable and thought provoking knowledge!

"Once you quantify something that you know then you're basically sticking your past to it" so damn true, so beautifully put Jacob

"Yeah, that night when I was chillin at Hans Zimmer's place, and it was Eric Whitacre, Jacob Collier and Quincy Jones hanging out..." FML I wanna be at *that* party!

This is just the kind of conversation that I like: displaying thoughts, wondering about anything and, above all, being passionate in going deep in a very natural and spontaneous way! I'd really love to have a chat with both of you someday! =)

@headrat1

4 жыл бұрын

Their sense of wonder can be felt like a child's excitement unpacking every new idea.

@oilerrtayl6271

2 жыл бұрын

h3y love it and the look

I feel unbelievably fortunate to be one of the 27,000 people to date who have watched this conversation. Value personified.

It seems that everything is connected to the deepest level, Zen Buddhism, Music, Psychology, everything in life. Thanks for sharing this great conversation with us and I am so inspired as a musician as I feel so free to create now

JACOB: --I feel like everything is kind of singing for me

Watching people troubleshoot technical difficulties is one of my absolute favorite things in the world. What a gift to have 2 of my favorite musical minds humanized in this way!

24:30 “I find that straight lines guide you wrong, that’s just something that I consistently find on every level. … Really, if you believe something, if you think, ‘this is right,’ it’s gonna make you smaller. Until you learn how to read the resistance and travel with the friction that is created when you put a line in your life. You put a line in your life or a process … it changes things. It adds a consequence. It means if you go this way, there’s a block or there’s a reflection or there’s a refraction on the other side, or there’s something to push against or … lean against, like a boundary or a rule. … And I think that there are times … when those kinds of boundaries are important, and … when it is important to remove them, too.”

Blessed to hear these two having sincere, earnest, open-minded, heartfelt, passionate conversation. A dream, executed impeccably.

Still my absolute favorite conversation with Jacob. I can't wait for another one!

I’m looking forward to the interview part 2 ( and more?) You’re both geniuses! Thank you

thank you so much Eric, this conversation was nothing short of epic, and a lot of it is thanks to your generous spirit as a host. this was incredibly inspirational for me as an opera singer to hear. it's so rare that such high calibar artists as you guys, take the time to talk and reflect and share their insights about such a variety of subjects.

This is one of the most wholesome and inspirational things I've ever been blessed to have in front of my eyes. The mutual respect between you two makes me emotional. I am about Jacob's age and I had my mind blown by Light & Gold and the Virtual Choir in exactly the same way as he described, at the height of my adolescence. To see how he was touched by your music in the same way, and to see how you gawk at his mind in the same way that I do now just makes me feel so fortunate to be alive in a time where I get to watch the exchanges between such brilliant minds whose music I have connected with so deeply. Your words about fear and danger cut deep right now, in such anxious times. Thank you for sharing this with us, I wish I'd known about your channel sooner. I also can't get over how refreshing it is to have you dig past the surface level questions with each other. I have always been so curious about how Jacob deals with criticism and fear in the creative process, he doesn't usually dwell in those spaces in interviews and stuff. For the perfectionists like me out there who can be afraid to create, hearing about those sorts of vulnerabilities explicitly from masters like you two is very powerful. I would die if I could have a question read if another one of these interviews happens: Both of you have collaborated with many artists of varying levels of mastery and notoriety (Hans Zimmer, The London Symphony, Steve Vai, Snarky Puppy, Kimbra, Daniel Caesar, Dodie, etc. etc. etc.); how have your experiences in dealing with these artists surprised you? Is there an obvious power dynamic? Have you ever felt stifled by their input? Did you ever feel like your vibes synced so hard that you made something greater than you thought would be possible? Now that I've got you thinking so hard about collaboration... please collaborate

@headrat1

4 жыл бұрын

How they communicate, the timing, giving space for ideas and expression to develop, not knowing where they are going but trusting they will have fun together wherever they end up. WOW!

"I learnt how to compose by arranging others music". That's basically how Bach started too.

@brianmessemer2973

4 жыл бұрын

Nikhil Varghese Yes, and all the masters. Every last one.

@nikelodeon6852

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianmessemer2973um... what's your point. You're wrong btw.

@brianmessemer2973

4 жыл бұрын

@@nikelodeon6852 My point is I agree with you. And no, I'm not wrong. An overwhelming amount of evidence exists in the literature describing how the great composers from The Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods studied composition formally, learned species counterpoint, and transcribed works of past masters. They learned by imitation, mastering the languages of the past masters, and then innovated beyond that, making their own unique statement. "Every last one" is hyperbole for effect. There are always counterexamples to a general truth. Have a nice day.

@nikelodeon6852

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianmessemer2973Mozart would disagree with you. As would the composers of the impressionism era. Everyone would 'copy' basic music theory like counterpoint, harmony, voice leading etc. doesn't mean they transcribed, yes that is essentially what Bach did older composers work like Bach.

@hezekiahdaggett2179

4 жыл бұрын

Nikhil Varghese your wrong he definitely did. U missed the point don’t need to be so snoody

What an extraordinary conversation, so deep and inspirational. It's clear that these minds understand the essence of music creation and why they are here. Love and respect from Iceland.

So many interesting thoughts! This slipped so seamlessly between music and psychology. I loved Jacob's idea that every instrument is a dialect of the same language.

Two Idols in one video. Sick!

I feel the same way. really lucky to be alive when jacob is doing his thing.

Wow. The fact that we can view these two musical titans speak such wisdom about music and creativity for FREE is simply awesome. Thank you so much Mr Whitacre.

i took notes while watching this because everything seemed so important and i had to make note of it. i am filled with wonder, uncertainty, and peace

some of the greatest wisdom in under an hour and a half. Very wise, well spoken man. musically and just in general. I related so much to the part where he talks about how deep and over thinkers need and desire to release some kind of productive creative energy in some form and how it gets difficult when things aren't going how you want them to go. Jacob Collier is truly one of a kind.

I came here looking for musical orientation and stayed here for the life meaning and self direction therapy content. You really do know how to play with people expectation!

42:00 I totally get this. It’s consumption and digestion. You listen to the world with an open ear and collect new ideas and new sounds, and then you work them into your musical vocabulary by playing with them and incorporating them into your work. Eventually you hunger for more, and the process repeats.

@cathy5119

2 жыл бұрын

Your words touching my dear heart with remembrances of moments when words woven together in conversation become enlivening, inspirational. As I listen to your conversations and read the comments in the written responses I realize our hearts are touched. I am grateful for this opportunity to share a poem. To see Is to forget The name Of The thing one sees Paul Valery

Many people: Write a symphony in four movements Jacob: Let's make each album a movement, and do four of them

Jacob confirmed to have a multicore brain. That explains things.

@headrat1

4 жыл бұрын

Like quantum multidimensional universes all connecting and having fun together and sharing this completely transparently.

"But, what if it all works out." Heavy yo

Jacob is incredibly inspiring. He is for sure a Landmark graduate. I can't get enough of his thoughts. What if everything turns out OK? What if everything has happened in our best interest? What if things have already turned out OK?

Best live stream video I have ever watched in my entire life.

Eric: “Just be honest” Jacob: “Honesty is always so interesting - it is so much more interesting than dishonesty”

Jacob opens his mind and pours it out onto the floor in front of Eric. This is musical genius happening in front of us. So few people use more than 10 percent of their brain.

@headrat1

4 жыл бұрын

Great wacthing two geniuses collaborate in conversation

Insane! Great job Eric. Such a flowing brilliant dialoge between the two of you.

It's like my birthday. My two favouritest choral composers in one video together. Wow!

Great vid!! Remember to have your own voice fellow musicians. We can learn a TON from Jacob but..... BE YOU in your music. Ever learning ever growing. Bloom where you are planted...and BE YOU!

Need to watch this at least a dozen times.

Amazing to see someone talk in another field. I’m a tech guy and I literally feel my way to solutions. I definitely play with technology.

Oh my god, both their music has had a huge impact on my life for many years, such a pleasure to see them together

Thanks Jacob and Eric, I think you guys are the coolest!

Wow, that was pure GOLD! Alchemist deep chitchat. Thanks for doing it. I hope it happens again sometime soon!

I love both these artists and they way they bend what music is, as well as who can participate in making music. When I first found Jacob about a month ago I recall thinking some of his harmony progressions reminded me of Eric, so imagine my joy at being able to listen to these two brilliant musical minds chatting about working through their creative process. Years ago I participated in VC's 3,4,5 I was captivated by the idea of sharing song and harmonizing with people around the world. It was thrilling. And now I get to spend an evening learning about things like the difference between believing something and knowing something. Thanks so much for sharing all of this with the world. Mind blown.

I could feel my brain synapses firing in so many ways; loved this conversation and wonderful exchange of ideas! Thank you so much Jacob and Eric, I can see why you're friends 👌😊 You're both so brilliant 🙏🌟💕Something came to me about how we use the mind that feels relevant here: in the study of ontology I learned that what 'we know that we know' and what 'we know that we don't know' are both relatively small pieces of a much bigger pie like you were saying Jacob. What 'we don't know that we don't know' is a very interesting place.. and this can lead to what 'we don't know that we do know' and so often turning things on their head can lead to some wonderful new openings and revelations in any kind of pursuit or artistry or relationship 🙏thanks so much 👍🤸‍♂️🦄

Great interview. Too bad there are too many ads interrupting the flow of the interivew.

Thank you Eric for giving us this wonderful interview. More please!

This video is a goldmine about composition and life philosophy - thank you!!

This was an enlightening conversation and much appreciated that you can deconstruct the creative process. I wish I could hear a similar conversation between Jacob and Stephen Sondheim who finds ways to parallel thematic text in musical theater. I would love to hear that kind of thinking and who influenced it.

@chrisa0001

2 жыл бұрын

Alas too late now.

11:00 This idea of letting ideas grow rather than being so desperate for the first thing you think of...this seems like it comes from experience. And it could be taken as a life principle too. When you have more experience with life you realize what you're worth and what "good ideas" actually are, so you let things grow more before locking them in.

I am revisiting this having watched it on release. Nearly two years later, this conversation has stayed with me throughout all the change and craziness. When the world felt like it had shrunk to four walls, these gentlemen reminded me of the universe beyond. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much! Never heard of you before to be quite honest, but my thirst for listening to Jacob talk about his connections between music and mind and language and philosophy and cognitive concepts brought me here. And i have to say, it has been an utter pleasure to listen to you two exchange thoughts! Very inspiring and very free and authentic talk! Just two great minds connecting and exchanging without any inhibitions, beautiful! I am currenty studying Psychology and literally just put down my book about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and turned to this video, so when you mentioned it that really struck a chord! Ever since i've been getting more involved with Jacob and his Music i have been convinced that i want to study Psychology with regard to Music and Language and the concepts that are conveyed throught those and how the mind makes sense of them. This video has just been a source of inspiration for things to research in this direction! Thank you so much Eric and Jacob!

@sethprewitt3723

4 жыл бұрын

Brain cakez you should Check out Eric’s song “Goodnight Moon” which is a choir arrangement of the classic bedtime story. Such respect for both of these brilliant minds.

Thank you Eric for this interview with Jacob Collier. It is wonderful to listen to two brilliant minds bouncing off each other.

Wow. What a special and emotional chat, thanks so much for this Eric and Jacob.

This may be my favorite conversation. The discussion about automatic thoughts (CBT) and the often-opposing forces of danger and fear is wonderful!

This was such a beautiful insight into the mind of Jacob and just so much fun to see the common understanding both these musicians have with eachother!

I love the dialogue about Jacob's ability to play multiple instruments. Reminds me of Victor Wooten's Ted Talk on music as a language--once you nail down how strings, keyboard, wind, drums, etc. work harmonically, playing other instruments within those domains becomes more natural. There's probably an exponential decline in "time spent learning an instrument" as you learn more, perhaps much like learning multiple languages goes. So cool!

magical

love the DEPTH of personal perceptions in music composition, its exploring & inspiration... and it’s of course a real FEAT to put into words... i remember that i used to contemplate & in time, use these emotional mechanisms full of either subtil harmonies & feelings, or often so, sparkling jolts of life-giving riffs that are always the source of a greater audience tackling, engaging & altogether performance, ending up creating unique sound pieces, greater chord progressions & harmonies (more original ones overall), something almost instinctively coming to mind (“inspired”?) that’s claiming to be born... but through a necessary ‘birth pangs’ process, but often also bestowing with itself an immense pleasure of relief & satisfaction, at times sad, or extremely joyous, or ecstatic, or as JC mentioned it, a sort of ‘catharsis’ which in my case has done wonders of frustration RELIEF & therefore inner resolutions & healing, leading to soothing contemplation & peace... (however the deepest peace for me comes from God himself at the reconciliation point, and when realizing He offers an eternity of bliss, resulting in CANCELLING the very unnatural fear of death: it’s GONE, forever gone, and so the inner peace that comes in is supreme!) nowadays however, being older i suppose kinda causes the above inspirational considerations to kind of vanish while music itself continue to ‘happen’ almost on its own (but it’s not a bad thing at all) and all of the above mentioned felt & explorational feelings &/or personal discoveries are now overlooked to the benefit of just & more simply following where music sets itself to go & to be... less ‘exploring’ & more following the flow of a song, pretty much like if it already existed... and i guess it’s yet another ’mind game’ (possibly, cuz it’s hard to truly define, being its own, without me even interfering), but more on the restful side, more peacefully & contemplative. Now this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/laKFqNirh6e_o7g.html&feature=share blew my mind, Mr Whitacre!.. Thank you for facilitating such things as a choir singing intricate harmonies to the edge of dissonances so exceptionally meshed with organic purity, brilliance & beauty, that it jumps from the natural realm to the spiritual one, resulting in such extraordinary degree of quasi-heavenly worship quality... I don’t know if that was the goal, but that’s how i hear it. kp/SBR

Thank you so much for sharing this great interview!

Love the depth, the excellence, the honesty! Keep on shining!!

Believing it can't be done, or if done, mistakes will be made: the base of dreams unrealized...fear. Well said.

Thank you for this. Two of my favorite composers together... :)

you are such a light

Super awesome!!! Thank you so much.

Great conversation! Really appreciate this initiative!

Grrr a great interview with way too many ads

I love this! Thank you guys so much, it was really fun to watch

It took me *checks notes* almost three hours to get through this video--granted, I got up for lunch, potty breaks, and such. And the closed captioning helped so much! Couldn't believe how different normal speech is to written words in the sense that run-on sentences are natural and make sense and seem to just show the flow of consciousness, speaking of which, one thought flowing to the next but circling around like that chord in lydian--not super lydian--like... music theory whabam! Basically, I SUPER enjoyed listening to you two think and share and smile. Time for a brain break :D But before I stop, thanks to you two for putting words to things floating out of reach (but still there... almost like a permanent *on the tip of my tongue* feeling...) BEAUTIFUL, MARVELOUS, AGAIN, AGAIN!

Thank you so much for such a great interview!

This conversation is a total game changer for me. Thank you so much for this!

Damn this was therapeutic.

This was substantial. THANK YOU for putting this together Eric!

PLEASE do another one. This was so insightful

please please please do one more you two sinergise great!!!