american symphony
American Symphony | Official Trailer | Netflix – Nov 9, 2023 – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKSMsdq8ONs]:
It’s 2022 and musician Jon Batiste is at the peak of his music career while also embarking on his most ambitious challenge – composing an original symphony. In the midst of this meteoric rise, Batiste’s wife – best-selling author Suleika Jaouad – learns that her long-dormant cancer has returned. AMERICAN SYMPHONY is an intimate portrait of two artists and the healing power of love and creativity.
Inside Jon Batiste & Suleika Jaouad’s Soul-Filled Brooklyn Home | Open Door | Architectural Digest [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zvsAwsEwPg]
notes/quotes from trailer:
we both see survival as a creative act
i honestly don’t know how to hold such extremes
@JonBatiste
notes/quotes from 100 min documentary:
3 min: what we love about music is not that it sounds good .. what we love about music is that it sounds inevitable.. it’s playing the thing that we all know is unfolding whether we want to accept it or not.. and it’s there always we just need to harness it.. be open to it .. t jon batiste
6 min: symphony.. classical, avant garde, jazz, .. there is room for all of us .. there’s a space for all of us to be diff and quirky and strange and beautiful together..t
has to be all of us for the dance to dance..
9 min: break thru long gate kept spaces..t all w/o having the space in my life to focus on it
lit & num as colonialism.. any form of m\a\p.. siddiqi border law
10 min: i was always driven to do some version of what i’m doing now.. it’s just evolved and gotten freer..
11 min: nobody understood what we were trying to do with stay human.. why playing on subway for free.. why playing a child’s instrument.. why’s he wasting his talent.. everything was met with pushback.. from everybody.. sent me to psychiatrist.. knew from beginning i didn’t fit.. t into this i needed to create my own situation/space/world
14 min: it was like.. how did i get here
15 min: if there’s something that makes you feel like being you.. that will be our reference point going forward t.. social music.. speaks to people on a very profound level
imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)
16 min: i thrive on creating an atmosphere where it’s all on the line.. people have too much comfort music don’t have the right intensity .. even in life if you’re too comfortable .. you don’t evolve..
18 min: if i keep rising higher .. am i gonna crack..
35 min: it’s gonna sound how it sounds until it sounds how it sounds.. not 100% on the paper .. but we’ll start there..
40 min: why be jealous of anything at all ever.. why be jealous.. be you..t
be you for us.. batiste jealous law
42 min: i don’t like being categorized by anything..t
label(s) ness.. the it is me ness..
ie: need means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening as global detox so we can org around legit needs
50-52 min: [how i’m seeing that first quote played/premised.. also part of final symphony 1:29]
59 min: everybody improvising solo.. t
infinitesimal structures approaching the limit of structureless\ness and/or vice versa .. aka: ginorm/small ness.. the dance
1:00 – haven’t been able to turn my mind off.. 3 days no sleep
1:03 – i don’t wanna have tough skin.. i wanna feel the things that are happening to me.. the terrible/beautiful things
1:11 – there is no best.. be you.. that’s it.. t
compare ness as cancerous distraction
what the world needs most is the energy of 8b alive people
need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature so we can org around legit needs (maté basic needs)
1:29 – symphony starts
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be you. 