meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Hrishikesh Hirway

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Design, Arts

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

From practicing on his first piano—drawn on a piece of paper—to recording albums and launching the podcast and Netflix show “Song Exploder,” Hrishikesh Hirway has lived a marvelous life of music.



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective.

0:02.0

Collective.

0:04.0

I think what my brain craves most is newness.

0:10.0

And one of the things that helps with the podcast is that like every episode is a different artist, a different song.

0:15.0

By doing the TV show too, I got to think about all those things,

0:20.0

plus all of the unique challenges of an entirely new medium that I'd never worked in before.

0:25.0

From the Ted family of podcasts, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman.

0:40.0

For 15 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

0:44.7

On this episode, Debbie talks with Rishi Keshirway about his podcast and TV show, Song Exploder.

0:51.0

I end up living with that interview and those stories for so long that if I've done

0:56.9

it well by the end of falling in love with them a little.

1:00.3

Hey listener a quick favor we are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes to respond.

1:08.0

Please visit survey. PRX.org slash design matters to take the survey today.

1:14.4

That's survey dot PRX.org

1:16.5

slash design matters.

1:18.6

Thanks.

1:19.5

A good song tells a story and behind every good song there's another story of how

1:27.4

that song was born. That is the subject matter of Song Exploder.

1:33.0

Every episode explores a single song and goes deep with its creators on where the idea

1:38.9

for it came from and how they turn that idea into the song we know and love.

1:45.0

Song Exploder itself also has a story.

1:48.0

First it was a podcast and now it's also a series on Netflix.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Design Matters Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Design Matters Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.