Hello everyone and welcome to the Mindscape Podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

And today we want to talk about art and reality and how art and reality are both mediated

through technology.

Our guest is Grimes, the musician slash producer who is now I think known as C. She's changed

her name to C, the letter C after the speed of light, which tickles my physicist instincts.

But I went by Grimes for purposes of this podcast because I think that that's the artist

title on the most recent album that she's come out with.

I think the best way to describe Grimes's work is as someone who produces music, both

literally as the producer of her own albums, but she writes the music, she records the music,

she writes the lyrics and she sings in addition to doing all of that production.

So she says she wants to go down in history not as a singer or dancer, but as a music producer.

And so we're going to learn a little bit about the technique of that.

I think this is a situation where technology has given to a wide number of people the ability

to make their own music.

Grimes started just by firing up Garageband on her Mac and going from there.

Her two most recent albums are Visions and Art Angels, which were both very popular,

one a number of awards and things like that.

And just now she's come out with a brand new album, Miss and Thropocene.

We'll explain, excavate the origin of that particular name here in the podcast and a

new single, so heavy I fell through the earth.

And I have to say, you know, I like it.

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