CREAZEE Sprint 1. Songwriting, Filmmaking, and Creativity with Marco Genovesi


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
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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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