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Slate Culture

Working: Miho Hazama’s Musical Journey

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Isaac Butler talks with the jazz composer, arranger, and orchestrator Miho Hazama. Hazama’s latest album Dancer in Nowhere was nominated for a Grammy award. Miho talks to Isaac about how her grandfather presented her with a Wikipedia article about cyclic numbers and how that became one of the biggest influences for her new album. Afterward, Isaac and June Thomas talk about what they found most striking about the interview, what they miss about regular day-to-day life, and how having a sense of community informs their own creativity. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to [email protected]. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys? I am Ashley Gavin and I am your father. I'm Elena Joy. I am mommy and I'm

0:05.6

Mackinjame you're hot teenage brother. Baby Mac is baby. We are your chosen

0:10.8

family because you don't have a gay family and you need a gay family.

0:14.4

Every week we bring a topic to the family dinner table from gender dysphoria to monogamy to

0:18.8

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0:24.5

full episodes on YouTube to get the full family experience. Chosen Family is a part of

0:29.0

the Forever Dog Podcast Network.

0:40.0

Welcome back to Working The Show about the Creative Process and what people do all day. I'm your host, June Thomas.

0:42.0

And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.

0:45.0

Isaac, your interview today is with a jazz composer.

0:48.0

Yes, indeed.

0:49.0

Do you listen to music when you're writing?

0:51.0

It actually really depends. For the book I'm working on right now,

0:56.0

I actually don't listen to music. There's just too much research to synthesize at once and to think about and it's sort of like I actually need

1:05.4

silence for the most part when I'm working on that but if it's a review or

1:10.7

something where the thinking has already been done then yeah I use music all the time.

1:15.0

I have in particular a playlist that is just of Yola Tango songs that are over six minutes long with very loud guitar solos in them

1:26.0

because that just like is the music of productivity and in revising the book I know

1:31.6

there's like specific pieces of music I want to use for specific

1:35.8

sections. So like, any time I'm trying to explain the process of acting through a specific

1:42.4

school or technique or system, the book lapses into the second person.

1:46.9

And so it's like, imagine you're playing the part of Hamlet, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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