Music, Creativity & Mental Health: Jake Isaac - Roundtable

A wonderful podcast with musician Jake Isaac led to an equally wonderful roundtable with my friends from Nettwerk Music. We began with a discussion of creativity as communal experience. This led to the insight that this is the opposite of being precious or needing to be validated. Rather, music is a driving for connection and, for Jake Isaac, a quintessentially sacred experience. We also discussed suffering as a road to deep learning - which then morphed into a conversation about wellbeing and contentment as the natural consequence of being attuned to reality. Finally, we explored the live environment, jamming, improvising and creative interaction and concluded it is a type of public conversation. When done authentically, it converys a unique expressiveness and brings about a miracle of communication: that I am not alone in my experience. This reflects Isaac’s philosophical ground in ‘Ubuntu’: ‘I am because we are’.