Yeah, I mean, I think as musicians, we're all a product of our musical upbringing, and

that's everything that we've heard over the course of our life, you know, so whatever

music you're exposed to, whatever sounds you're exposed to, I mean, those are going to

form your identity as a musician. If you're, you know, you're being honest and you're

outputting what's really what's come through you, you know, and so I think as artists,

it's just trying to keep yourself from, you know, getting buffeted too much by the

winds of change and by what's trendy and what other people are doing and to stay true

to the vision that you've been building, and you've been building it slowly over the

course of your life, and so, you know, I hope I can be, you know, a good channel, I hope

I can, I can represent, you know, the beautiful cultures that I've been so blessed to learn,

whether it was, you know, my time spent in New York learning from the house dancers, some

of the original house dancers who came up with the style and taught me about the music

and, you know, the influence of the loft, David Mankusso's loft in New York, and, you know,

the whole approach of DJs, you know, from then all the way up until now, and so, yeah,

I mean, I think I'm a product of what I've experienced, and, you know, I hope to keep

being able to represent that.

That was Rise Ashen, a musician from the group, Celia and Rise.

And in this episode, I talked with four artists and musicians about their work on the Anchorage

Museum's new exhibition titled Listen Up, Northern Soundscapes.

The exhibition explores and considers Northern Soundscapes to better understand humans

relationship with, understanding of, and impact on the natural world.

A soundscape is made up of all the sounds of a given environment.

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