Clouds & Pipes / Yuka Honda, Sonic Songstress

Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

HITRECORD & Cadence13

Arts, Tv & Film, Performing Arts

4.4 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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“To me, it's not about really external/internal. It's about a pipe between me and others...I have all these thoughts and I want to express them all, but people are not always ready to receive them. Then when you get together and express something...sometimes I can find a pipe where we can connect.” -Yuka Honda My guest this week is Yuka Honda- a musician, composer, producer and all around fantastic artist. She’s one half of the duo Cibo Matto, and has worked with a range of musicians: from well-known artists such as the Beastie Boys, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, to lesser-known but no-less-incredible artists such as Petra Haden, Mike Watt, and Medeski Martin & Wood. Her latest work is a multi-media operatic theatre piece called No Revenge Necessary. She’s done so many great things over the years, and is a dear friend whom I was excited to sit down and have a conversation with. For this episode, Yuka and I explored a question from Melissa Hui from San Francisco, CA. Melissa asked, “How much of creative expression is for ourselves vs. others?” We talked about how ideas, images, and feelings take the shape of clouds inside of our heads. When collaborating, Yuka looks to create a pipe connecting her ideas (or the clouds in her head) to the clouds in other people’s heads. And to wrap off our incredibly uplifting/poetic conversation, we answered a question about what we would do in the face of death. If you have a question about the creative process, that you think would spawn a good conversation on this show, ask me on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter tagged #creativeprocessing, or by emailing [email protected]. New episodes are coming out every Tuesday through October 22, 2019. ------ ABOUT THE GUEST: Yuka C. Honda is a musician/producer/composer/performer. Residing in New York City since the mid-1980s, Honda is best known for the band Cibo Matto. Honda has released three solo albums and has produced recordings by Sean Lennon, Martha Wainwright, Yoko Ono Plastic Band, and Cibo Matto. Currently Honda has been performing and recording with CUP (duo with her husband Nels Cline) as well as with her solo entity Eucademix and ON/IN, a duo collaboration with Akio Mokuno. ------ SELECTED LINKS FOR EPISODE: Connect with Yuka Honda: Instagram: @Eucademix Facebook: @Yuka C. Honda Twitter: @YukaCHonda YukaCHonda.com Yuka’s Art Mentioned:No Revenge Necessary (Original Multimedia Opera composed and directed by Yuka Honda)People Mentioned:Cibo Matto (Band with Yuka Honda + Miho Hatori)Beastie Boys (Hip Hop Group)Yoko Ono (Musician) Sean Lennon (Musician) Petra Haden (Violinist) Mike Watt (Bassist)Medeski Martin & Wood (Band)Marc Ribot (Guitarist)Caetano Veloso (Composer)Vincent Gallo (Actor/Musician)Jamie Foxx (Actor)Nels Cline (Guitarist/Composer)Venues Mentioned:Knitting FactoryNational Sawdust To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Creative Processing Podcast. My name is Joseph
0:09.6	Gordon Levitt. The premise of this show is to have a conversation about the creative process, all spurned, all spawned, all sprung by one question.
0:20.0	And I find a guest to talk to that I think would be particularly good at answering that question.
0:27.0	This week I have a musician to talk to. Her name is Yuka Honda and she's a fantastic artist. You might know her, she's one half of the duo Chibo Mato. She's worked with musical artists that you've probably heard of, like the Beastie Boys and Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon.
0:45.2	She's also worked with just a ton of fantastic musicians that might be less well known but
0:51.4	are no less incredible.
0:54.7	Petra Hayden, Mike Watt, Madesci Martin and Wood,
0:57.2	Mark Ribo, Kaetona Valoso, Vincent Gallo,
1:00.9	she does everything from more poppy music to her latest work is called
1:06.6	no revenge necessary which is this multimedia operatic theater piece.
1:11.6	She does so much great stuff and she's a wonderful person to talk to. a So I'm going to read the question that the conversation was based on and it comes from
1:27.2	Melissa Hui from San Francisco. She asked how much of creative expression is for ourselves versus others?
1:39.2	This is in many ways the big question, I think, as far as what's going to make anybody happy as a
1:45.9	creative person and I don't think it's as simple as saying oh well just do it for
1:51.0	yourself and you know the rest of the world just fuck them.
1:55.4	You know, I don't, I don't think that's, A, I don't think it's realistic, but B, I don't think that's necessarily the,
2:01.3	the way to a happy creative life either.
2:04.4	Now, making art for others
2:06.4	doesn't necessarily mean you have to be playing
2:09.4	for arenas full of thousands of fans, but including other people in your creative process or
2:16.0	knowing that someone is going to receive what you've done, I think is an important part of taking satisfaction but it shouldn't
2:25.4	overshadow just the satisfaction that you yourself take and finding that balance
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