We're back today with part two of Bruce Hedlum's conversation with YouTube's sensation

turned five time Grammy winner Jacob Collier.

We left off our last episode with Jacob talking about what it's like to perform to an audience

of thousands of people after growing a fan base entirely online.

In this episode, we'll hear Jacob play the piano and go deep on music theory.

It's honestly pretty extraordinary.

It isn't every day that a musician of Jacob's caliber takes a time to sit down at a piano

and really break down his creative process and the theory behind it.

He also talks more about his new album, Piano Ballots, and about how the old standard Moon

River taught him the power of centering his avant-garde arrangements on emotions.

This is Broken Record.

Liner Notes for the Digital Age.

I'm Justin Richmond.

Here is Bruce Hedlum and Jacob Collier.

One of your early experiences on stage, I read, was you sang in a couple operas.

I think you sang in FOTSEC and BANJAK FLUTE.

But then you did Benjamin Britain.

That turned into screw.

And you said, I think it was his harmonies, like blue your mind or something.

Now I thought I would have to sit here and pretend to understand Benjamin Britain.

And that was making me very nervous.

I do like the interludes from Peter Grimes.

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