music I’ll tell you a little bit about
myself
okay so as you can see I’m a little
awkward because some technical
difficulties but anyway that’s nice the
show must go on so as I outlined in my
little piece those are few things that
I’m going to talk about when I first was
called to do this I freaked out a lot I
watched lots of TED Talks I had no idea
what I was going to say so after
watching a lot of TED talks one thing I
realized is I don’t want to talk too
much about myself but talk to you about
something that maybe you could connect
to it in some way so the first point in
my talk is finding a purpose what is it
that you are meant to do what is it that
makes you all to have be doing and
making that your profession a lot of us
do not have an answer to that at
different ages it came I myself had no
idea I’d be doing this a year ago and
the point is when you do not know
exactly what it is you’re supposed to do
you don’t have to worry about it because
that’s completely human that’s
completely normal and if it takes you
years if it takes you going through lots
of different professions and trying out
lots of things and your parents think
you’re crazy and you’re your bosses
think you’re crazy and everyone thinks
you’re crazy it’s you’re not crazy and I
think especially in today’s society I
mean maybe maybe way back when our
parents were our age it was that you
this is your profession this is what you
do you have to bring home money you have
to sustain yourself but I think we’ve
moved towards an environment where you
are kind of given the space to find what
it is and maybe life isn’t only about
bringing home the bacon but also
enjoying what you do in the process so
that was the first point I’m just going
to speak very briefly about all of them
so finding your purpose once you’ve
found your purpose
and say that your purpose is art I’m
gonna talk from an artists perspective
because that is my perspective but for
you it could be absolutely anything
under the Sun it needn’t be art it
needn’t be it could be anything
it could be anything at all anyway once
you found your purpose see you found
your calling see it is to be an artist
of some sort how do you turn your art
from a hobby to a sustainable profession
and when you go down this path you have
two options it you have one option to
completely put yourself into it and that
is your means of survival that is a
means of satisfaction that is a means of
expression everything and the other
option is to start out maybe with a day
job that’s what I’ve been doing which
kind of sustains you while you you know
take your art to where you want it to be
and it’s a difficult choice it’s an
extremely difficult choice and it is up
to each artists to find which works best
for him or her because there is no right
answer I’m not here to tell you that
there are any right answers because I
myself don’t know I’m discovering it
along the way so the option of just
completely throwing yourself into it for
me the reason why I find that
problematic is when you’ve completely
made the shift right and you now you are
dependent on what you love doing most
for your sustenance it makes you take
compromises it makes you take up things
like suddenly you’ll be in a position
where you’ll take up anything just to
make you know whatever excess amount is
required for you to pay rent and that
can be frustrating in its own way but if
you are mature enough and you you know
that you are ready to do that and you
should go for it for me I I I’ll come to
a little bit about myself a little later
but I used to be a lawyer and I quit
that going from a position of earning
lots of money to not so I took up a
low-paying day job because one thing
that no one tells you when you set out
on this journey is that people don’t pay
artists on time ever and they don’t pay
artists adequately either but even when
they do their lot of delays and it’s
just it’s nice to have some sort of
some sort of guaranteed money coming in
every month of course the drawback is
that you have absolutely no time to
chill because you’re working during the
day you’re going to rehearsals during
the evening you’re playing gigs you’re
doing all of this in any any free time
that you find at all
so that is difficult but for me I found
that this has worked and I guess slowly
will start tapering off the day job
aspect of it but people will tell you
people will tell you why do you do this
quit your job you know be an artist why
are you doing this don’t be afraid to
hold on to your day job and be practical
about it arts are not only about you
know being creative and being you know
colorful and all of that stuff it’s okay
to be practical to in fact it helps you
sustain an incubator art to be a little
practical so that is my second point now
coming to the third point so now you
have found a purpose and you have found
your own personal way to make a
sustainable profession so now coming
speaking purely from a musician’s
perspective the first thing I did when I
took this step was I was told that I
need to put out music I need to get my
stuff out there and the first thing I
found was that there are so many costs
involved in this no one told me about it
to record a song first of all it’s many
hours of work and then you have to pay
for mixing mastering artwork press your
managers and these are all things that
when you listen to them you attract on
after music you only see the artist’s
name but the number of people who have
put in work to make this possible
they aren’t it doesn’t always come to
mind and you don’t really know it until
you’ve experienced it yourself and when
you experience yourself and you meet the
people behind it you realize that their
value add is so immeasurable that your
piece of art would be incomplete without
them so just as music as an industry
artwork is in a nursery photography is
an industry journalism mixing mastering
recording all of these are people just
like me just like you who are trying to
make their own journey and
it’s very important that all artists of
all art forms recognize the worth of
this and that we can only grow together
if we work together on LY grow a feel
grow together basically so that is
something that no one told me and it
just hit me but I’m so like it’s pretty
amazing to see the all the building
blocks that go into that one song that
you just listen to on YouTube so coming
to the scene the music scene this is
something that so I guess I form part of
the indie music scene the independent
music scene and the scene itself is
something that no one likes to talk
about what is the scene now that I’m a
musician the scene there’s a group of
artists in the same field as you some
are very established some have worked
very hard for many years to make a name
for themselves some are new sensations
some have been on the fringes for yours
when you enter the scene when you become
a new artist and you’re part of the
scene you’re faced with a lot of things
there might be a lot of people who have
worked very hard for many years and they
don’t like seeing a new person coming in
there may be people who admire you and
who really help you it’s a lot of it’s
like the music scene is like the legal
scene is like the college scene is like
the high school scene it’s pretty much a
society of people with common interests
and common ideals and they’re all trying
to do the same thing
maybe not common ideas that just came
out so how do you how do we exist as
artists in the scene because sometimes
it gets too so does that mean we isolate
ourselves completely the point is you
cannot isolate yourself completely
because just as I said each art form is
growing together so are all individuals
within a singular art form so we all
need each other at the same time it is
important to not let that affect you
negatively and I was gonna play a song
on this I think I do have time so all
serious and difficult topics in life I
don’t like talking about them I like
singing them which is why I sang my
introduction so that I would be less
awkward in front of you so I’m going to
sing a song I don’t have an answer eggs
about how to deal with the scene but I
do have a song which I wrote called
small fish in a big pond it’s how I felt
fish in our big swimming against the
current of life
in my own stream dreams in a while but
[Applause]
I
[Music]
[Music]
I
[Applause]
so I did what I thought I couldn’t do
every successful use most of the time so
I’m kind of proud of myself right now
any way to speak to very briefly about
myself my name is a theorem ish I used
to be a corporate lawyer for almost
three years I never in my life imagined
that I’d be doing this I loved music
throughout my life I did Western
classical piano as a kid cannot take on
and off as a kid and then I did no music
for 11 years and had this crazy idea has
just been exactly a year in 10 days
today to quit my job and I didn’t think
that I’d be doing what I’m doing I just
quit my job thinking that I need to be
doing something with music or I’m not
going to be happy and my plan was take
up a day job that gives me a little bit
of time and just practice with every
little bit of extra time that I get so
it served me well I’m happy to say I’m
part of four bands today I’ve started my
own all-girls band and that’s like a
lifelong dream of mine and so basically
to conclude I would say everything
starts and ends with practice practice
is the most important and it keeps you
grounded and no matter what your
accomplishments are you should always
know that you are just somewhere on a
journey which is lifelong and you can
always be better and you can always
practice and when things get too
difficult and you feel like you can’t
breathe you need to just wait for the
influx of time and I’m going to play my
song influx of time for you or now I
barely have enough time to do it but I’m
going to try a flux of time is a legal
term it’s meant to describe something I
find to etic and legal terms as we know
a very definite they are subject to
interpretation so it’s a definite word
term to describe something poetic that’s
the passage of enough time to cause
something to change
[Music]
Veda language train travel cycling
around
[Music]
and wait for the efflux of time back but
it but I open but it it but I knew but
but if it I mean you bum but in it but I
mean you abridged versions because I’m
out of time
that was my talk I really want to do
this one thing before I end up there’s a
single-coil Annette Hanshaw
you should check out a very old single
and after every single one of her
recorded songs she says it’s one thing
and that’s all that’s all thank you so much
myself
okay so as you can see I’m a little
awkward because some technical
difficulties but anyway that’s nice the
show must go on so as I outlined in my
little piece those are few things that
I’m going to talk about when I first was
called to do this I freaked out a lot I
watched lots of TED Talks I had no idea
what I was going to say so after
watching a lot of TED talks one thing I
realized is I don’t want to talk too
much about myself but talk to you about
something that maybe you could connect
to it in some way so the first point in
my talk is finding a purpose what is it
that you are meant to do what is it that
makes you all to have be doing and
making that your profession a lot of us
do not have an answer to that at
different ages it came I myself had no
idea I’d be doing this a year ago and
the point is when you do not know
exactly what it is you’re supposed to do
you don’t have to worry about it because
that’s completely human that’s
completely normal and if it takes you
years if it takes you going through lots
of different professions and trying out
lots of things and your parents think
you’re crazy and you’re your bosses
think you’re crazy and everyone thinks
you’re crazy it’s you’re not crazy and I
think especially in today’s society I
mean maybe maybe way back when our
parents were our age it was that you
this is your profession this is what you
do you have to bring home money you have
to sustain yourself but I think we’ve
moved towards an environment where you
are kind of given the space to find what
it is and maybe life isn’t only about
bringing home the bacon but also
enjoying what you do in the process so
that was the first point I’m just going
to speak very briefly about all of them
so finding your purpose once you’ve
found your purpose
and say that your purpose is art I’m
gonna talk from an artists perspective
because that is my perspective but for
you it could be absolutely anything
under the Sun it needn’t be art it
needn’t be it could be anything
it could be anything at all anyway once
you found your purpose see you found
your calling see it is to be an artist
of some sort how do you turn your art
from a hobby to a sustainable profession
and when you go down this path you have
two options it you have one option to
completely put yourself into it and that
is your means of survival that is a
means of satisfaction that is a means of
expression everything and the other
option is to start out maybe with a day
job that’s what I’ve been doing which
kind of sustains you while you you know
take your art to where you want it to be
and it’s a difficult choice it’s an
extremely difficult choice and it is up
to each artists to find which works best
for him or her because there is no right
answer I’m not here to tell you that
there are any right answers because I
myself don’t know I’m discovering it
along the way so the option of just
completely throwing yourself into it for
me the reason why I find that
problematic is when you’ve completely
made the shift right and you now you are
dependent on what you love doing most
for your sustenance it makes you take
compromises it makes you take up things
like suddenly you’ll be in a position
where you’ll take up anything just to
make you know whatever excess amount is
required for you to pay rent and that
can be frustrating in its own way but if
you are mature enough and you you know
that you are ready to do that and you
should go for it for me I I I’ll come to
a little bit about myself a little later
but I used to be a lawyer and I quit
that going from a position of earning
lots of money to not so I took up a
low-paying day job because one thing
that no one tells you when you set out
on this journey is that people don’t pay
artists on time ever and they don’t pay
artists adequately either but even when
they do their lot of delays and it’s
just it’s nice to have some sort of
some sort of guaranteed money coming in
every month of course the drawback is
that you have absolutely no time to
chill because you’re working during the
day you’re going to rehearsals during
the evening you’re playing gigs you’re
doing all of this in any any free time
that you find at all
so that is difficult but for me I found
that this has worked and I guess slowly
will start tapering off the day job
aspect of it but people will tell you
people will tell you why do you do this
quit your job you know be an artist why
are you doing this don’t be afraid to
hold on to your day job and be practical
about it arts are not only about you
know being creative and being you know
colorful and all of that stuff it’s okay
to be practical to in fact it helps you
sustain an incubator art to be a little
practical so that is my second point now
coming to the third point so now you
have found a purpose and you have found
your own personal way to make a
sustainable profession so now coming
speaking purely from a musician’s
perspective the first thing I did when I
took this step was I was told that I
need to put out music I need to get my
stuff out there and the first thing I
found was that there are so many costs
involved in this no one told me about it
to record a song first of all it’s many
hours of work and then you have to pay
for mixing mastering artwork press your
managers and these are all things that
when you listen to them you attract on
after music you only see the artist’s
name but the number of people who have
put in work to make this possible
they aren’t it doesn’t always come to
mind and you don’t really know it until
you’ve experienced it yourself and when
you experience yourself and you meet the
people behind it you realize that their
value add is so immeasurable that your
piece of art would be incomplete without
them so just as music as an industry
artwork is in a nursery photography is
an industry journalism mixing mastering
recording all of these are people just
like me just like you who are trying to
make their own journey and
it’s very important that all artists of
all art forms recognize the worth of
this and that we can only grow together
if we work together on LY grow a feel
grow together basically so that is
something that no one told me and it
just hit me but I’m so like it’s pretty
amazing to see the all the building
blocks that go into that one song that
you just listen to on YouTube so coming
to the scene the music scene this is
something that so I guess I form part of
the indie music scene the independent
music scene and the scene itself is
something that no one likes to talk
about what is the scene now that I’m a
musician the scene there’s a group of
artists in the same field as you some
are very established some have worked
very hard for many years to make a name
for themselves some are new sensations
some have been on the fringes for yours
when you enter the scene when you become
a new artist and you’re part of the
scene you’re faced with a lot of things
there might be a lot of people who have
worked very hard for many years and they
don’t like seeing a new person coming in
there may be people who admire you and
who really help you it’s a lot of it’s
like the music scene is like the legal
scene is like the college scene is like
the high school scene it’s pretty much a
society of people with common interests
and common ideals and they’re all trying
to do the same thing
maybe not common ideas that just came
out so how do you how do we exist as
artists in the scene because sometimes
it gets too so does that mean we isolate
ourselves completely the point is you
cannot isolate yourself completely
because just as I said each art form is
growing together so are all individuals
within a singular art form so we all
need each other at the same time it is
important to not let that affect you
negatively and I was gonna play a song
on this I think I do have time so all
serious and difficult topics in life I
don’t like talking about them I like
singing them which is why I sang my
introduction so that I would be less
awkward in front of you so I’m going to
sing a song I don’t have an answer eggs
about how to deal with the scene but I
do have a song which I wrote called
small fish in a big pond it’s how I felt
fish in our big swimming against the
current of life
in my own stream dreams in a while but
[Applause]
I
[Music]
[Music]
I
[Applause]
so I did what I thought I couldn’t do
every successful use most of the time so
I’m kind of proud of myself right now
any way to speak to very briefly about
myself my name is a theorem ish I used
to be a corporate lawyer for almost
three years I never in my life imagined
that I’d be doing this I loved music
throughout my life I did Western
classical piano as a kid cannot take on
and off as a kid and then I did no music
for 11 years and had this crazy idea has
just been exactly a year in 10 days
today to quit my job and I didn’t think
that I’d be doing what I’m doing I just
quit my job thinking that I need to be
doing something with music or I’m not
going to be happy and my plan was take
up a day job that gives me a little bit
of time and just practice with every
little bit of extra time that I get so
it served me well I’m happy to say I’m
part of four bands today I’ve started my
own all-girls band and that’s like a
lifelong dream of mine and so basically
to conclude I would say everything
starts and ends with practice practice
is the most important and it keeps you
grounded and no matter what your
accomplishments are you should always
know that you are just somewhere on a
journey which is lifelong and you can
always be better and you can always
practice and when things get too
difficult and you feel like you can’t
breathe you need to just wait for the
influx of time and I’m going to play my
song influx of time for you or now I
barely have enough time to do it but I’m
going to try a flux of time is a legal
term it’s meant to describe something I
find to etic and legal terms as we know
a very definite they are subject to
interpretation so it’s a definite word
term to describe something poetic that’s
the passage of enough time to cause
something to change
[Music]
Veda language train travel cycling
around
[Music]
and wait for the efflux of time back but
it but I open but it it but I knew but
but if it I mean you bum but in it but I
mean you abridged versions because I’m
out of time
that was my talk I really want to do
this one thing before I end up there’s a
single-coil Annette Hanshaw
you should check out a very old single
and after every single one of her
recorded songs she says it’s one thing
and that’s all that’s all thank you so much
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