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​
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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​
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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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