E52 - RY X: How to Unleash Your Creativity, Heal Your Pain & Find Your Voice (LIVE)
Know Thyself
André Duqum
4.8 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Musical Artist Ry X joins the podcast today to uncover what it means to be a great artist and master your craft. He shares how he finds inspiration in the spaciousness of nature and why the ocean is his greatest teacher. He explains the process of alchemizing pain into beauty - that the most powerful art, comes from the deepest feeling.
Explaining that in order to make great art, we must first be vulnerable and authentic with our experience, and excavate the beauty that is there.
Ry X shares the lessons he has learned from fatherhood, what his definition of success is, and why our voice is the most powerful thing we can offer. He also performs 2 of his songs live, and gives an insight into the meanings behind them.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
2:37 Spaciousness & Inspiration from Nature
7:14 What it Means to Be a Great Artist
10:06 Artistic Mastery: Discipline Creates Freedom
14:02 The Creative Process and Spiritual Practices
18:32 Musical Performance: Howling
23:03 Sharing Music Vulnerably - From Performance to Prayer
26:38 Transcending the Opinions of Others to Find Your Own Voice
29:45 Transformation through Death Moments
36:25 Rising From Rock Bottom & Finding Solid Ground after Falling Apart
42:46 Practices for Emotional Wellbeing
50:20 How Fatherhood Changed Me
55:12 Success, Responsibility, and Meaningful Impact in the World
59:23 Artistry as a Commitment to Excellence
1:03:07 Ry’s Song “Howling” Explained
1:06:27 Musical Performance: Berlin
1:10:05 The Power of the Voice
1:12:27 You are an Artist
1:15:23 Conclusion
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Ry Cuming, better known by his stage name RY X, is an Australian singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is drawn to the loneliness of nature: to the sea, to the forest, to the mountains - finding inspiration for his songs. His music has reached millions, with some of his top songs being "Berlin", "Only", and "Howling". He also pours his creativity into his compelling music videos and grand performances - inviting his audience into a deeper sense of feeling and connection within themselves.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryx/
Website: https://www.ry-x.com
Listen to his Music: https://ryx.komi.io/#c3f39ab8-b943-4340-9e19-4105c4052c38
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know that there's a more personal thing in the whole world than the voice. |
| 0:07.0 | As people, we have the same unifying things. |
| 0:10.0 | We all have fear. We all have love. We have passion. |
| 0:13.0 | A lot of the role of an artist is to dig deep inside of ourselves |
| 0:17.0 | to find a connection to our emotion, our experience that then becomes universal. |
| 0:24.1 | To go to that place where the veil is thin, to go to that place where death and rebirth and |
| 0:28.8 | spirit live. |
| 0:29.7 | That's all that really matters in that. |
| 0:31.6 | Your need to create is the essence point. |
| 0:34.0 | There is something deeply majestic about taking away everything else that you are to be in |
| 0:40.1 | those moments. Go and do it. Pick up the guitar, pick up the piano. Your art is meaningful. Process itself |
| 0:46.3 | of making it is one of the most beautiful, powerful practices I've had in my life. |
| 1:11.1 | Hello, beautiful beings. Welcome back to the Know Thyself podcast for every single week. We get the honor and privilege to sit down with a brilliant mind and open heart, sometimes a dear friend to learn more about ourselves and the world around us at deeper and deeper levels. |
| 1:14.3 | My guest today is a Grammy-nominated artist and producer. |
| 1:19.6 | He's toured all around the world and collaborated with incredible establishments and orchestras like the L.A. and London Philharmonic. |
| 1:22.0 | He's written and produced for many big names like Drake and Diplo and John Legend. |
| 1:29.5 | But as a friend, |
| 1:35.8 | he's somebody that is just so connected to his heart, such a grounded spirit. And I feel like he really does pour his heart into his art. And he uses his connection to nature and spirit to |
| 1:40.6 | inform and inspire his artistry and his music. And we might be even lucky enough |
| 1:45.3 | foreshadowing to get some beautiful live music here today in the studio, which I'm so excited for. |
| 1:52.3 | Rye has been such a pleasure to get to know him more and more. And he's an individual. Like I said, |
| 1:58.0 | that it's a very grounded spirit and it's super inspiring. He's somebody that I feel like is not, art isn't something he does. It is something he is. And it fuses into everything that he does. So, Ryan, thank you for coming on today, bro. Wow, thank you. I mean, I want that intro everywhere I got. I'll do. I'll just follow you around. Thank you. Beautiful to be here, man. |
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