Music with Mitch, Second Edition

Inside the Episode with Mitch Episode 9 : “Music with Mitch, Second Edition”  For this special episode of  Journey Of An Aesthete Podcast , your host, Mitch Hampton, records live at his Steinway piano.    An Alumni of New England Conservatory of Music , Mitch discusses his process of creating original music. Mitch is a world renown musician and composer who has scored for many major films, toured the world playing piano , and has produced many albums.  This is the second segment in an ongoing series for Journey of an Aesthete Podcast , where from time to time, in between hosting other artists and guests, our host, Mitch Hampton, takes us up close and personal, into his own creative process as a musician and podcaster. We here at Journey of an Aesthete Podcast see our show as a story quilt, each interview and guest a quilt square, an exploration, a door Mitch opens for us into new worlds, exploring the creative process for all artists of all kinds, across mediums and genres…. Always our compass being the value of the arts and the creative journey of any kind, and, “ What it means to be human”…….  These more personal episodes from Mitch’s interior process and world, are the “threads” if you will, the binding of the quilt into a whole. Enjoy and find more links to Mitch’s body of work below!  From Mitch’s notebook about this episode: "I should say that I originally came up with the idea of an ongoing series where I sit at the piano and simply talk about music in general, and how I compose in particular, when I realized that my YouTube feed was filled with hundreds of instructional how-to music videos, some of them by rather prominent names in music. I was struck of course by the sheer volume of information being offered at a mere click, and sometimes I would watch and say are they going to mention this or that and the other thing, and invariably they always did mention the thing in question.  Consequently I knew that if ever I did anything with me talking at the piano I would vow to do something completely unlike all of those videos that are out there. Rather than have a goal of teaching music per se I would reflect philosophically how I actually compose music in real time and I would do so in non-technical language with an eye, or ear, towards art and aesthetics in general rather than simply music.  I have no idea if my idea is enjoyable, or interesting, or not. In this particular episode I talked mainly about how some music can have many chord changes or few and use as a test case a piece I am working on that is self consciously minimal in its harmonic density.”  For more information about Mitch's body of work, links to Mitch's albums, click here and enjoy!  https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mitch-hampton/434517595  https://mitchhampton.bandcamp.com  https://vimeo.com/123552097  Please consider becoming a monthly subscriber to Journey of an Aesthete Podcast here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/journeyofanaesthete  Thank you to everyone for being on the journey!!!  We are now sponsored by Audible.com and you can click here for a free book on us:  http://www.audibletrial.com/JourneyofanAesthete