Canggu Creative Weekly #7 | A Musical Tale For The Producers
Musicians are storytellers.
Authors who use a language older than the alphabet.
This ancient harmonic dialect was crucial when we could no longer hear the music.
Lockdown reminded us how music and its makers are indispensable for our souls to chew their daily dose of emotion.
For letting the sunshine into our hearts, when it no longer could bathe our brows.
Stuck in a moment that isn’t one, as uncertainty left us lost in the track of time.
Here was the moment to dive head first into the only art that has any chance of taming, directing, and controlling the bold arrow of time.
Music.
A Poem For The Producers
(Play Aphex Twin’s Rhubarb for optimal reading experience)
Muse-ique.
Who makes us dance? Who lets us forget everything, to focus on the moment?
With music, we take the time to be.
Press pause on our busy lives.
Everything stops, so we can enter her vibrational dimension.
She unites the crowds, finding peace within the chaos.
At her side, we all agree with the power of sharing, giving and receiving emotions.
She feeds hearts and minds with infinite light, rocking bodies with endless love.
A celebration of feelings.
Music can make us cry, smile, stand, step and sleep.
Eternally.
Ambient binaural beats have the literal power to physically relax or stress a listeners brain.
A frequency to activate a desired neurological setting.
Brain Waves.
What makes so many people gather in festivals under extreme conditions? How come the sound is so loud in a cinema? Why play background music in a seductive commercial?
Because music speaks the language of the heart.
It manipulates emotions.
A silent world could simply not exist.
Empty as the outer space void.
Music For The People
Writing music lets you speak with your most intuitive words.
Rhythm.
The primitive instinct of hitting objects to resonate sound.
Melodies.
The most universal expression.
Harmony.
A language free of all translations.
The inner directory of the hearing world is thus infinitely richer than the visual one.
Learning music lets you reconnect to your inner soul, your most early memories and feelings.
It is the discovery of a new world that was always here, unseen, yet ready to be heard.
A deep dive into the journey of air waves.
Producing music is, before all, a celebration of life through the expression and sharing of feelings.
Because a song is nothing without the interaction of listeners.
For the mind or the body — introspective, or grooving out — it leads the emotional dance.
We live in a world that is full of unheard emotions.
Its ears are only waiting for new winds to sail through the waves of the mind.
Taken by the fresh stream of technology, music production’s capabilities opened up to everyone.
In the 1980s, the transformation from disco and electronica to house and techno was the Up Next in this migration journey.
A few hardwares - such as a cheap drum machine and a basic synth — Roland’s TB-808/909 & TB-303 — would now be enough to make a masterpiece.
Roland TR-808
Roland TR-909
Roland TB-303
Through the development of dance and electronic music culture, it then contributed to a major enhancement of music production in all genres.
Most of the music we listen today comes from this legacy. And most of it goes through a computer at some point.
The era of self-made producers, curated by technology.
Rawi is one of them.
Meet the tale teller
Hani aka Rawi — Arabic for storyteller — is a DJ hailing from Beirut, now trapped in paradise.
Like most of Bali’s current temporary residents, Rawi’s initial intention was to dump his suitcase here for a week.
Then, the universal metronome changed the global tempo.
Along with a few friends, he started a party concept, named after music’s uniting power — Communiti.
As a DJ who curates and organizes parties back in Lebanon, he kept track of the beat despite the off-beat times.
With Deep Ghosh, they settled at Tropicola for a quarantined live stream with the beachy backdrop.
Rawi — livestreaming from Tropicola
When everyone was moping around after the extinction of the party’s flame, he was blowing its embers with his oriental downtempo grooves.
At the same time, he was chopping logs here at Genesis.
Getting ready to set fire to those un-locked down celebrations, recording his first podcast mix of a long series.
With an unexpected success for a first release, it served to unveil him from the shadows of the smoked underground electronic music scene.
Willing to extend his musical skills, he committed to learning how to write his own stories, and joined the Genesis’ Music Production Course.
Rawi, a producer in the making, of his own making, has kindly stated:
“Genesis served as a sanctuary for my time in Bali, creating mixes for different platforms globally and also preparing to translate my oriental and Arabic influence into downtempo electronic music.”
Rawi — recording a set in Genesis’s Pioneer Music Studio
He is now close to completing his 10 hours introduction to Ableton Live. Juggling with his production practice, and his job as a strategy and business development consultant.
Entrepreneur by day, Musical Prodigy by night.
Love it.
Check out Rawi’s awesome Soundcloud here:
Join his Communiti
Writing music is capturing emotions.
Expressing them through a story that can be heard by anyone.
Music is for everyone.
The universal language for transmitting the deepest, transcendental meaning.
Even remote planets communicate with scientists thanks to sound frequencies.
If Mathematics is the language of the Universe, Music is its voice.
Musicians, the evangelists of Cosmic Music.
And when they do it right, we’re transported to that private beach at the edge of the stary universe.
There, we Lose Ourselves To Dance.
