Hey, my friends. What's going on? Welcome to the AstroHustle. I am Kory Allen, and as always, it's great to be here with you in this moment of time.

Today on the show, I have got a great guest, Christopher Willetz. He is a musician, artist, and producer who creates immersive music for relaxation, focus, and healing.

He also directs and co-founded envelop. In this podcast, we go deep into music, into how music can be a form of healing, and how the creative process can help us grow whenever we apply it to our lives.

Chris also has a new record out called Gravity, which I can't recommend enough, is a beautiful, really deep and calm record, and I know you'll love that whenever you go and check that out.

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It's patreon.com slash Kory Allen. All right, let's go do it. Let's go drop in with a brilliant and wise Christopher Willetz.

Do you ever get into those weird, kind of mental, rabbit holes with your music or any of the greatest stuff you're doing?

Definitely, definitely in the past, definitely had kind of an expectation of where I thought things could go.

What I thought I was doing, and then as things continue to grow, and the music teaches you the process of what you're doing and where your gifts lay, then it just kind of opened up and it's been flown ever since.

I mean, that's really been like the last 20 years, really, very, very grateful, just letting the music guide me wherever it needs to go, and allowing that to create the space for us to listen deeper and slow down together.

Yeah, I love them, and so whenever you say the music is showing you where to go, I know what that means for me, but what does that mean to you?

Yeah, what does that mean? It's beautiful to kind of understand the kind of information that comes from that.

It's a very mysterious process. It's also, it's very emotional.

For me, music is this beautiful merge of the spiritual and the physical, and it comes through our emotions, and we can feel all of this energy, this empathy, this love, and this creativity.

And so for me, I'm just tuning into that, which for me really, it comes together in my heart and in my body, and it's a constant process of feeling where this music is going, and understanding where it wants to take me.

It's a collaboration. I'm pushing the music in a certain way, and it's telling me where to go. Ultimately, though, the music always wins.

Right. Right. Right. Yeah. No, that's, that's great, man. And so, do you, like, is it preconceived ideas you have about, like, whatever you're going to create, and you've got those in your mind, and you're trying to kind of manifest them into reality through whatever, you know, musical medium that you're using.

And then the feedback that you're getting in the creative process is guiding it elsewhere, and then you set aside that expectation that you had, and allow what's coming through to come through, and you just kind of become a vessel and honor that is that what you're saying.

Yeah, to some degree, I think that first stage, though, it's really trying to let go of any preconceived ideas and just coming back to how I'm feeling, asking myself, where does this next chapter of music want to go?

And, you know, where does it want to take me ultimately? So that has a lot to do with just whatever's happening in my life, whatever kinds of sounds are inspired me at the time.

And it just, you know, at some point, it starts to just kind of grow together, like, like, these roots in this, with this mycelium of, like, you know, networked ideas of, like, where all this thing could come from, because in that flash of just feeling, there could be a thousand images and visions that come up.

And so in doing the work and beginning to play around the space that wants to be created, all of a sudden, this, this kind of network of ideas and thoughts and sounds starts to gel together, like, I'm not this, this image of kind of a mycelium definitely comes up and it just creates this kind of foundation for where the music can start to grow.

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