I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. My guest today is someone you may know very very well because you heard him many times

but you didn't hear him speak in words, you heard him speak in music.

And so you may actually not recognize that it was him.

One of my favorite composers Max Richter, or Richter if you want to say it in English but Richter is the

mother tongue of his original language. Max writes beautifully crafted, very intelligent as a matter of fact, works of music that are very, very

disarming in their honesty, very conducive of reflection if you want, and he really does it to communicate a message a social message most of the

time. Despite the underlying sophistication you know his music seems to be very accessible if you want to all and I

believe that his expression through his music has reached all of us because he surpassed a billion streams and a million

albums sold. Max has also become an influential composer, not just in his solo albums but in films and

television and so he created the brilliant score for the golden globe and

European Film Academy Award winner the waltz was Bashir, which if you haven't seen, is quite a touching

and a bit intense, but an amazing, amazing story about the invasion of Israel to Lebanon in 1982. You know he composed the score for

HBO's cult drama the leftovers. He composed for Black Mirror, for Tabu,

among many others.

Ten years in the making, Max's latest work is Voices, and actually the reason why I wanted so much to host Max with us today

Voices brings together recordings of people in over 70 countries with an incredibly inspiring background music,

reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

With a massive and a very unusual orchestra that is almost flipped upside down where some of the

skirts instruments are actually used a lot more often. This piece of work really

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