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      "text": "What's good, everybody? Welcome back to Love Music More. I am Scoobert Doobert joined with Dana Roth. Welcome to the show.",
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      "text": "Hi, thanks for having me.",
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      "text": "So great to have you. I'm so excited to talk about your fascinating career. I was watching you shred on bass with one of my favorite Nowhere songs. And then I was watching incredible animations and",
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      "text": "It kind of blew my mind that it's the same person. How did you find that talent, develop that talent, develop those skills?",
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      "text": "So I started as a bass player pretty much yeah and then I went to Berklee College of Music started 2016.",
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      "text": "I graduated 2020 into the pandemic in Berklee I also majored in like music production engineering that kind of stuff and played a bunch and when I was graduating it was both COVID so no live music or anything we were like learning on zoom producing from home so our final projects I think at this point I had a bit of a school Berklee burnout which is",
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      "text": "Yes.",
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      "text": "like a pretty common thing that happens and I kind of felt like I don't know, music became this like stressful thing at this time of my life and I always was a doodling person and",
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      "text": "Cool.",
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      "text": "I always always kind of wanted to learn how to animate but never had the time and this was like again COVID so I just went for it and very fast I started like getting commissions from my friends and colleagues and it just kind of picked up. um pretty organically so yeah but now I love music again I do both",
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      "text": "it's great but also one of the things that I was struck by with your animations is you can tell that somebody that plays made it",
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      "text": "like you've got the ghost notes on the snare drum in the right place like the fingers are moving in a way that a guitarist or a bassist would move their fingers and so you're able to take these artistic leaps but they're being rooted in um like actually understanding what we do which i think makes it so cool yeah",
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      "text": "Thank you. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I'm a very like rhythm driven person. And I think yeah, both music and then naturally when I work on a music video, it would be very like reactive to the music itself and hopefully musical and groovy.",
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      "text": "yeah exactly well i think that's an interesting thing that we could talk a little bit about is so as a bass player obviously you're like running the groove And on the video and animation side, I feel like a lot of video editors or even just people that watch music videos don't realize that there is such a groove to the cuts, the edits, the choices.",
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      "text": "How do you navigate that? Is that intuitive or are you just kind of like rolling through stuff or do you kind of storyboard and plan out? Like what's that process look like?",
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      "text": "That's a good question. A lot of it is pretty chaotic, my process. I try to get like a better like structure as I like the more I do this but I usually like have a rough idea for the video or for what I'm doing but as I go I will try like when I start with the rough and stuff I do try to be intentional like with the timing and I think generally like animation even if it's not like",
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      "text": "like reacting to music it is like an art that happens in time and like timing is a big part of it so Anyway, like people who do this are very conscious of it, but I just try to bring this extra level of like being conscious of the timing of the animation and how it relates to the music.",
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      "text": "So yeah, if I do a loop, I'll try to fit it into a certain number of bars or like I'll try to make sure things are landing in a cool way with",
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      "text": "Yeah.",
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      "text": "Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense also, too, why people like music videos are a huge time investment to go film and do all that kind of stuff and so I could see how the beautiful beautiful thing of incredible animation that people are excited to watch feels like the song feels like an extension of the song and is something that you don't necessarily have to go on like a week of shoots to accomplish",
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      "text": "yeah i mean sometimes we do both like sometimes i like to combine",
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      "text": "how does that work okay",
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      "text": "i mean i don't i don't direct like filming and stuff but sometimes i would like like to have like footage of the band or the artist and then do stuff that either like layer the animations or top or use it to like create mats or that kind of thing so",
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      "text": "that makes a lot of sense that makes a lot of sense yeah a really fascinating thing also in terms of like the colors and vibe that you pick are you trying to find something that fits the song the band like how are you reaching for yeah like what your palette looks like",
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      "text": "it's a good question I think palette it's kind of a thing that I do kind of cook as I go I feel",
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      "text": "like and must massage it as I go I think it is like ultimately trying to capture a vibe that feels aesthetically pleasing to me. Yeah, I think I always try to like do something obviously that fits like whatever I do.",
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      "text": "But yeah, I also choose my clients in a way that I try to take only projects that feel like deeply connect with my style and feel like it's right for the kind of thing I do. so i don't know it goes both ways it",
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      "text": "yeah it makes a ton of sense um in terms of like how how much time it takes like i i'm i don't know i don't have any background in animation what is what does it look like what's the process what's it how do you how do you start how long does a typical music video or even just a single animation like how long does that take like",
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      "text": "takes a long time like",
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      "text": "it's it looks like super slow a lot yeah i mean i do i work",
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      "text": "frame by frame for the most part like I work kind of like a combination of like animating in photoshop and then like doing stuff in after effects and it's very time consuming like a lot of what I do is like more shorter loops like most artists that I work with don't have the budget and the timeline like to do a full-on music video like it only happened multiple times yeah and like then second loop that looks really nice and",
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      "text": "a bunch of stuff going on can take like a week week and a half of work does yeah yeah",
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      "text": "that answer your it does question it does because then i'm picturing yeah like a full like three and a half minute music video it's like all right months and yeah yeah yeah",
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      "text": "it's like I'm kind of getting married with a song for like two months when I do that",
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      "text": "total sense yeah uh that's that's really interesting too um so i was listening to your record uh",
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      "text": "before the podcast just hang out with my dog it was a lovely time but i was thinking about the combination of what it must be like to be in a recording studio which i know very well you're looping the song you're practicing the song you're mixing the song and it's like you're living with that song very very deeply do you get sick of the song if you're making an animation for it and recording it",
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      "text": "then at this point we're already like after like we're like kind of make friends again with your own yeah I mean yeah I think yeah creating yeah such an emotional roller coaster of like you know really loving what's happening and then being like oh this sucks and then you know I don't know for me at least",
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      "text": "sure because i think one of the things that got me when i was making my first few records was comparing what i was doing in the studio to actual like commercially released mastered music and being like what the hell and then at the very very end after months and months of editing and all and then you master and you go oh okay yeah it can kind of hold up now but it can be lonely it can be really challenging you can want to give up",
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      "text": "And I think a lot of people don't know that everybody's going through that too.",
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      "text": "yeah I think it's so helpful like I love like for instance going into rabbit holes of like trying to find videos of artists that I love talking about their process like Tammy Pala and stuff and",
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      "text": "and they feel like a little more human and a little more or they also hate their stuff at some point and it's like it just like helps you yeah to accept it that's like the pain or there is the gap between you what you want it to be and where it is right now that it's sometimes just really really painful so it's",
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      "text": "yeah so yeah I guess it's just a part of it yeah",
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      "text": "yeah i think it's just a part of it and also like a",
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      "text": "yeah lot of the times when it gets cool it'll end up going to a place you didn't anticipate in the very beginning and then you're just like gonna end up over here but you're cool with it you like never actually accomplish the goal cool",
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      "text": "I know it's like sometimes it's just about kind of discovering what this song is",
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      "text": "is rather than for me at least but I feel like some people I don't know. I sometimes have this idea that other people are like more intention. I can envision the thing and like get there. But I guess it, I",
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      "text": "i'm not i'm mean, yeah. sure other people are though too but i also think that that's part of what like really really creative work is is that you kind of have a very vague map if you knew exactly where you're going to get to it's not super creative anymore it's a little bit more like engineering not to hate on engineering it's just a little bit more like i'm going to follow the plan",
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      "text": "plan at the end of the plan i'm gonna have the thing um if you did that in music uh maybe it would work for some people i'm sure it works for some people but i think i would fail",
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      "text": "yeah I feel like there is this balance of like yeah you do not want to learn your craft and like learn your tools and be able to like envision stuff but then there's just this like element of playfulness and curiosity which I guess It's something like to remind ourselves of, like just being okay with the uncertainty of the process and yeah.",
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      "text": "Yeah, the uncertainty of the process. That's really, really well put. I feel like that's something I'd like to talk about institutional versus self-taught learning, because that's a similar thing, right? You have a curriculum and you follow it and you're going to learn something at the end versus self-taught learning that is.",
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      "text": "inherently more chaotic and can be more or way less productive at least institutional as you're kind of on rails yeah what do you think cool",
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      "text": "Yeah, I have so I thought about this so much because I had this like Berklee college experience of like going for a few years learning production from like amazing mentors and teachers, but also then like animation was like a pretty much self taught thing. Yeah.",
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      "text": "And I think like when you go to an art school, there is this this fantasy that you know everything by the end of it and get all the tools and I think in many ways it's It is incredible and it was an amazing privilege to go there and I feel like there are a lot of stuff that I learned there that I wouldn't even know that I need to learn. You know what I'm saying?",
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      "text": "Like, yeah. Yeah. So it kind of opened my brain to a lot of stuff I didn't even consider I would want to know, which was incredible.",
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      "text": "But then in a way, it also robs you of something that you've gained. you know when you learn something on your own I",
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      "text": "feel like because in a school you kind of get the idea that is both true and false that there is a way a right way of doing stuff because when i learned animation it felt very much like it's kind of my thing and nobody gets to i'm not trying to impress a specific teacher and i'm not there's no like way i'm just kind of discovering that",
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      "text": "Yeah, and also like the I don't know when you're able to keep this has been a through line through a bunch of my guests when you can keep learning stuff on your own and develop the ability to learn stuff on your own you're going to have a better music career because it is such a weird industry and the people that can do a whole bunch of stuff.",
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      "text": "stuff are usually the ones that are most successful have the coolest networks i'd be actually really curious have you seen your animation work spill over to your playing in a way that feels like you're building you know different kinds of community or through lines or you kind of feel like they're two different job family things",
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      "text": "That's, what we get that's cool. I'm wondering too about the journey of learning for animation and like, where were the milestones? Where were the feelings like you started to really get it? And was it through creating stuff and like?",
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      "text": "sharing it or was it through grinding tutorials or trying little things like i'm trying to basically separate in my head the artifact and the finished piece versus the process of learning or were they the same thing",
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      "text": "Yeah, it's a great question. And I feel like in many ways, this is kind of, I think I realized when I taught myself animation is that you learn",
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      "text": "I feel like it's a better way to learn when you're learning for a project, when you're trying to figure out how to do something specific rather than, because I was also granting tutorials, but also a lot of the tutorials were like, I'm trying to figure out how to do this specific thing for",
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      "text": "a project. So that's how I will go and find a tutorial. So yeah, definitely just like figuring out, like having a thing in mind that you want to create and then figuring out how to get.",
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      "text": "get there feels like the best way to learn i was also lucky like to intern with two incredible animators one is gival hacker one is daniel gosset shout out to both um and this was also like a really cool way of learning just working for someone getting their insight but also figuring out how to make them happy um like this pressure i think just having outside pressure to like a client or someone you work",
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      "text": "work for it is very anxiety-inducing sometimes but I think anxiety can be a really cool driving force",
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      "text": "Or is for you to rate it five stars to share it with your friends This is like the most important thing for this podcast to grow So if you want to do this you go on to the podcast screen right you click on the dot dot dot on Spotify Under there it says rate show and you go and you click it five stars If you could do that for me, that's the best way for the algorithms all this stuff to share it out with the world I know that it's a lot to ask but if you could please please please just please just hit those three dots and a five star It really help us out and helps us you know get",
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      "text": "really cool really cool so this show is called love music more uh this segment is called love music why And I ask all of my guests the same question. Why do you love music?",
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      "text": "that's so great so where can people listen to your music stream airship and get in touch maybe to hire you for some animation work too",
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      "text": "i mean my album airship is on all platforms find me on instagram Dana Roth underscore Dana Roth i do animation i do music i upload A lot of like voice works that I do for other people, but also I try to do like some small like beat and animation kind of stuff which I put over there and I'm here in San Fran, so if you're in the area, let me know.",
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      "text": "sweet well it was super fun uh talking love to hear about your journey and let's definitely uh keep in touch can't wait to hear even more music and i'll be listening to airship too",
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      "text": "Thanks so much for having me. It was great.",
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