Part 2 of Season 4 Episode 3 with Ludovic Zamor: Concert Pianist & Recording Artist

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Romantic era, it feels as if this is the upper limits of tonal harmony and at the same time
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virtuosity.
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I felt as if this was the upper limit.
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This is as far as the ceiling goes.
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And to play those pieces are more entertaining than the rest.
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Hello piano enthusiasts!
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You are tuned into the PianoPod with me, Yukimi Song.
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Today we are delving deeper into the second installment of the season with a phenomenal
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Canadian-American pianist and recording artist, Ludovic Zamor.
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In case you missed our Captivating Conversation in Part 1 where we discussed his latest album,
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Amor, and explore the fascinating journey from project inception to release date triumphs,
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and his path to readiness returning to the stage after the pandemic.
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Don't worry, you can catch up on all the excitement on your favorite podcast platform.
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A warm welcome to all our new listeners.
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So my friends, here is part 2 of the PianoPod's season 4, episode 3 with Ludovic Zamor.
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Please enjoy the show.
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What is your thought on keeping classical music relevant and thriving in this fast-paced
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society?
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Hmm, that's a very good question.
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If you want to hear a very short story, only I think like a month and a half ago was the
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first time like one of my random friends from out of town, they were coming to New York
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and they invited me to go to the Brooklyn Mirage.
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Are you familiar with the Brooklyn Mirage?
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Yeah, it's a... and it should actually be like a YouTube video or something, concert
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pianist goes to the Brooklyn Mirage.
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But as I went there, I was just so overwhelmed because they had lasers, they had fire, they
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had all this type of stuff.
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And it was... at the end of the night, I was reflecting and I was trying to say to myself,
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wow, you know, this is what we have to compete with as classical musicians because we're
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taking so much stimulus and then now what I'm doing is almost as if it's back to the
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basics, it's back to the roots.
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And how do I, I guess, show people this rich genre?
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And that's, I guess, something I've been trying to ponder with for a long time.
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You go to Carnegie Hall, there's no light show, or at least maybe in Zankel Hall, but
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in a Wild Recital Hall or the Stern Auditorium, there's no light show, there's no fire, there's
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nothing like that.
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So it becomes a moral question of, well, can we do?
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It's something I've been working with for a long time.
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And the answer that I'm coming to is just try and give a very, very pure performance.
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And hopefully, like you said earlier, maybe they will just be exposed to it and somehow
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fall in love with it the same way we do.
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But who knows, maybe there comes an opportunity where you have the concert, you know, piano
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concert with the laser beam, you know.
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Maybe.
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Yeah, you know, I got to interview Michael Kacov as a first episode of the season, and
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then we talked about Scrabbing, and Scrabbing actually tried to do it, right, with his orchestral
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work for the, I think it's over 60 something.
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So it's pretty late work.
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And then, but you know, with the technology, it wasn't possible at that time.
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But a hundred years later, Yale University made it happen.
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And then there is like a really, yeah, it is even like almost his, like, Paris score
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of this orchestral work, he puts the specific color that he wanted to produce, you know.
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Yeah.
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So who knows, maybe that's something that we can think about, right?
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Then you mentioned that why the belief in the meritocracy is liberating and inspiring.
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You want to talk about that.
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Will you elaborate on this?
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What do you mean by that meritocracy?
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My dad, he grew up in, he grew up in the Caribbean.
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It's a very, it's almost like a caste system over there.
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And when he came over to Canada to practice medicine, he also suffered, you know, I would
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say like, especially back then, astronomical levels of racism.
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And one thing that he learned and he instilled to his children, instilled to me, was after
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a certain point, when you become really, really great at your craft, whether it is medicine,
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whether it's law, whether it is history or music or performance, after a certain level,
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they don't see a black doctor.
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They don't see a black lawyer or black historian.
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They don't see a black musician.
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They just see musician.
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So that is what you're supposed to strive towards, where the qualities that you were
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born with that you have no control over, these things all become irrelevant after your greatness,
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hence merit.
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So that's kind of what I try to envision myself, where these qualities as if, you know, being
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a person of black descent or such, I don't want that in the narrative.
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I just want a great musician, a part of the narrative.
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Alongside, you know, if you can inspire someone that comes from a similar background, that's
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great.
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But my main focus is just to be great, not necessarily fill in the blank and then such.
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So not because of your background, let's say, right?
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So that's not something that you want to address.
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So to be equal means you arrived here because you worked hard.
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Exactly.
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Which, right, I totally understand the concept.
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In that sense, it makes sense.
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But so while I was listening to your story from the beginning today, it really does make
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sense.
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So this meritocracy system works, right?
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So whoever has this ambitious and also, you know, work really hard, let's say American
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dream come true, no, in many ways.
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But then, you know, the word meritocracy triggered me a little bit because I remember reading
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books about it before COVID.
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And there's one book is called The Tyranny of Merit.
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The other one, I don't remember the title of the book, but they were written by, one
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is written by Harvard professor, the other one is written by Yale law professor.
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And then there's also there are plenty of YouTube clips about these books, and they
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are on TV shows or whatever to promote their books and try to make a point.
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And then one is that Michael Sandel, he's the Harvard philosopher, also the professor
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and he argues about this concept of meritocracy.
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So I think, in a nutshell, your father's generation, I assume he is in like a middle age right
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now.
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Oh, my dad is in his 80s.
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He was born in 1941.
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Oh, my goodness.
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Wow.
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From a way different generation than I am.
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Okay.
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So more so than it does make sense, right, because they want to break that barrier of
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color.
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And that comes with probably financial background to economic disparity, too.
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I'm not speaking about your father because I don't know, but I assume about this group
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of let's say you're from your generation is coming from, you know, Caribbean.
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So then now those people, I'm not talking about your dad, but you know, who grew up
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in that era of meritocracy, that system.
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If you work hard, it doesn't matter the color of your skin or background, your economical
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disparity, you get the chance.
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And then that's how they grew up.
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Then your generation, then your generation will raise the next generation.
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And they argue that there's a flaw in this meritocracy system because in the end, what
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happened during let's say COVID, obviously, we saw that huge stark difference between
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the riches and the poor.
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That was really one of the things that we noticed and then guess who was working really
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hard for us?
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The right workers, right?
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Essential workers and delivery people.
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So this idea of meritocracy gave us a whole sense of like, for example, for those who
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succeeded, it gives the sense of whole sense of success, right?
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Because the success actually came from your father's generation.
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We're the one who thrived, struggled to achieve this, and then we are benefiting from their
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struggle in many ways.
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And thus the financial also success to many, many of our generation.
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And it didn't happen overnight.
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It didn't happen just because I worked hard or, you know, my generation, somebody, someone
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works really hard, but actually it's a generational thing.
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And for those folks who don't seem to success, doesn't seem to be successful, then we label
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them as failure?
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No way, right?
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I would agree with you.
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Yeah, not at all.
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There is, you know, generational wealth or such for some people.
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And sometimes when they see meritocracy in that way, it seems as if they're the people
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that worked hard.
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My vision on it is more along the lines of the idea of a meritocracy is almost liberating
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because I believe in the idea of like, almost like extreme ownership.
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The more, the more that you have control over, the more that you have responsibility over,
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the less of being able to say some things are out of your hands is, is powerful in itself.
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So if you say that everything that is bad, that's happening over me, or everything that's
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good is happening over me.
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And the more that you're able to say that you have control over that itself is giving
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you more power.
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So if in my case, accepting, being accepted to certain conservatories or programs or winning
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competitions, not necessarily that I care about competitions anymore.
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I've actually had my own philosophy on competitions, but being able to step on a stage and delivering
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a good performance, getting up to that point, it was not because I come from a certain background.
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It's because I worked my butt off to get to that stage.
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I understand that.
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I understand the point of view.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So tell me, you just briefly touched on your thoughts on competition.
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Tell me.
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I'm going to quote Bella Bartok.
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Competitions are for horses, not for artists.
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And when I was younger, those competitions, not only did they burn me out, but it was
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almost as if, how do you say that one piece of art is objectively better than the other?
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After a certain degree, you could say such, but sometimes it's very, very difficult to
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say one thing is objectively better than the other.
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And it's the way I feel about it now, the idea of competing, it's almost distasteful
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now.
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You know, it's interesting the way you perceive the word meritocracy is different from mine,
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because you said, you know, you just quoted, you know, Bartok and you agree with his vision
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of music, right?
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I totally agree.
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Although I'm guilty, I put my students into competitions because classical music is also
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becoming, oh, I achieved this medal.
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I achieved this certificate and thus I get to go through this school, right?
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So that's how, yeah, tell me.
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I would say in some cases, competition might be good for someone, and especially in their
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development, because you're exposing them to other people who are passionate, you're
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exposing them to where the ceiling is for their age groups, and you're exposing them
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to different people's repertoire.
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You know, sometimes in a competition you might hear a piece that you never heard before,
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like, oh my God, that transcription exists.
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Oh my God, you know, there are list transcriptions of Schubert, I never knew that.
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And sometimes some kid on the other side of the planet is playing that in a competition
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that might broaden their horizons.
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In that sense, a competition is great.
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It gives a student something to strive towards.
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Sometimes for some people, unless they don't have the inner drive themselves, they're never
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going to work.
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So unless you put a finish line or a goal in front of them, you know, some students
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might not strive.
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But at the end of it, I want to say that, you know, a competition mindset, especially
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for a professional artist, it might not be appropriate.
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Maybe they should be focusing on their own name, focusing on their own craft and not
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focus on other people.
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But for a student, maybe that might be a different for her.
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So competitions is not everything, right?
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Definitely not everything.
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How do we find the sense of purpose or mission as a classical musician in this world?
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Being a classical musician or a performer, it is a dream come true.
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It is one of those very, very gratifying jobs because you get to affect people on a large
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scale every time you perform.
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And it's one of those jobs that doesn't feel like you're pouring glass into another
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and pouring it right back.
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It's not as if you're going nowhere.
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So our missions, at least for myself, it is to affect people, whether it is emotionally,
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whether it's spiritually, whether they have a spiritual experience after it, as if the
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same way how Bach or Liszt did.
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Those are goals.
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But is every performer supposed to feel that way?
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I'm not sure.
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It's tough.
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But it's very interesting because is every performer supposed to be on a stage?
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Maybe after sometimes performers retire, they're supposed to go into editorials or go into
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teaching or at least that's where I'm looking at it.
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So maybe this is repeating, but what is your thought on our duty or gift as classical musicians
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to society at Bach?
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It takes years of study to develop the gift.
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It takes how many different generations of people, just like how I mentioned before Abraham
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Stoncklar, it felt as if he packed 90 years of knowledge into me.
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And when you have that responsibility on their shoulders, it's almost as if it's a duty to
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share that with everybody else.
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And when you step on a stage, it's that opportune, whether you're streaming it on top of that,
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or you have a thousand people in the audience and you have a perfect opportunity to share
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what composers wrote and their feelings.
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And it's almost as if you have a duty to do right by them.
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I don't even know how to put it.
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I don't want to say it's the most important job in the world, of course not, but it's
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definitely as if you're almost doing missionary work in a way.
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With all the difficult questions, the last question in the philosophical segment of this
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podcast would be, any advice for young musicians?
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I've made my fair, or more than fair, series of mistakes and I've learned from them.
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I guess as a musician, you have a fear in your head.
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You don't want to become a diva, you know?
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And you're afraid of expressing your desires or your wants.
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And one thing that I always kept in my head is don't become a diva.
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Don't become a person that asks a lot and exercise patience.
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But one thing I've learned, especially in the music industry and how dirty it could
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be, is if you let people, they will waste your time.
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If you just sit on your hands and you don't say how things should be, they will just walk
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all over you.
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So my advice to young people, especially if you're a musician or a performer, you understand
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how much practice, how much education it takes to get to where you're going.
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And the idea of having another person, I guess, gatekeep before your dreams and such, don't
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let people stand in your way.
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And don't stop yourself from pushing what you deserve and what you really want.
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Wonderful.
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Yes.
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Take initiative.
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Take control of your career.
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Yes.
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What is next?
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So Ludovico Zamor 2.0 or maybe at this point 10.0, I don't know.
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But what's your next step?
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What's your next phase in your career?
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Actually I'm working on my, I guess, if you want to say the volume two of the Amor, where
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I'm actually learning a completely separate set of Romantic Era pieces.
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And I guess the end all goal is to play all of these pieces in concert.
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Hopefully 16 pieces all together in one concert, separated by an intermission.
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Usually before I played four pieces, intermission four pieces.
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But what I'm going to try and do now, if it's daunting, you know, whatever, but to play
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eight, intermission another eight.
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But that's my end goal for now.
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Wow, beautiful.
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And if that's the case, are you going to perform at Carnegie?
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That is the goal.
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I'm going to try before I play all 16, I'm going to try to play this, this album in Carnegie
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Hall before.
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If that happens, please, please let me know because I would love to attend.
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Of course.
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I'll send tickets.
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Yay.
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I'll definitely be there.
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Yes.
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With lots of bouquet of flowers.
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Yes.
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I'll be there.
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Hey there, TPP family.
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The piano part is now into our fourth season and it's all thanks to you.
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Since 2020, you've been with my journey with the TPP, exploring this burning question.
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Now let's continue with the show.
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Is there anything else before we go to…
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I actually had a question.
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One thing that I found very, very interesting was your use of AI.
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And it's almost as if, how did you come to that?
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And what are the benefits?
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Oh, that's a good question.
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Yes.
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I'm actually quite…
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I don't want to brag, but I'm interested in technology.
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So let's put it that way.
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And it's not like I know computer code or anything like that, but I like gadgets.
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So I think I grew up with these cameras, not camera at me, but video recording as I grew
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up.
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And I think my interest led me one to another.
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And somebody introduced me to this AI, it was one of those Zoom meetings.
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And I know that somebody else was in the Zoom room, but it's not a person.
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So I asked this person who is hosting this meeting, I asked him, what in the world is
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this thing doing?
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Who is that?
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And he said, oh, that's an AI taking notes for us.
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Oh, it's amazing.
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Yes, it is.
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Do you find personally, has there been anyone giving you flack because you're a classical
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musician and then you're on the other side, the really progressive technology, or is it
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just a welcome combination?
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I think, you know, I don't separate my world that way.
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So I welcome every… because this is who I am.
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I love something timeless and classic, like classical music, but also in the industry
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of classical music is evolving to where a lot of people now, you know, expressing themselves,
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you know, through classical music, but in a very different way.
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As you said, you don't want to… some people don't want to identify themselves as a classical
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musician with their heritage, right?
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You want to be the classical musicians who love to play the romantic piece.
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That's your identity.
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But some people identify themselves with their heritage, whether that is Asian or, you know,
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Caribbean or whatnot.
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So anyway, for me, my identity as a musician is this.
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I have such progressive idea.
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I welcome all these ideas and then some of them work really well, some don't.
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But, you know, but I love…
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I'm just very, very curious about technology and the AI is going to help my work.
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Edmund, especially, you know, daunting tasks like Edmund work, you know, writing or coming
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up with, let's say, social media, posting ideas.
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I asked ChatGPT, give me 10 different ideas about posting, you know, some interesting
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engaging posts about certain things.
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What are your thoughts on ChatGPT or any type of AI writing as if like, write me a song
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as if Beyonce would write a song?
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What are your thoughts on…
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You know, it's interesting.
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Because this morning I tried, write me a haiku about podcasting and then AI wrote me a beautiful
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haiku, but I didn't credit myself.
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I posted on Instagram story and then I, at the end of the haiku, I said ChatGPT.
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So, but, you know, that's a very legit question.
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And then I used ChatGPT to really give me some ideas about, let's say, social media
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posting or what sort of…
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So many things you can do with your, you know, when you are doing a lot more creative work,
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it really helps.
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However, you know, I listened to one of the podcasts about AI and this lawyer got in trouble
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because basically he used ChatGPT to come up with, you know, whatever and, you know,
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it was not his language, right?
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So yeah, so we really have to be careful.
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Do you see it as a tool or do you see it as like an intuitive, I guess, separate entity
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where it's almost like…
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You said like the lawyer just now, it's almost as if they're cheating or they're plagiarizing
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or what do you look at it more as if it's a tool that's just a calculator or, you know?
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Well, okay.
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So I think in many technologies, there is the ups and downs about, you know, how to,
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how we use them, right?
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So for example, even like the rise of internet, people are freaking out, oh, am I going to
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be able to purchase something online?
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And then what if somebody stole my credit card information?
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I mean, there's always the bad people and the way we can use internet can be also bad.
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There are a lot of predators out there too.
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I mean, I don't want to talk about something so much darkness about things here, but at
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the same time, we are able to connect this way with internet.
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I'm able to do podcasts because of the power of internet.
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I think it's the same thing with AI.
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Honestly, I have no intention right now or never to use it to, I don't know, cheat.
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No, no way.
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Then even through this conversation, let's say if I ask AI, write me a script of my podcast,
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I can totally do that.
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But do people know that I am just reading off of a script?
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Yes, they do.
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And I don't want to do that.
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So you also have to capture.
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Because fact checking is something that we all have to do, whether you use AI or not,
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or internet, you know, like almost like, do you believe everything in internet?
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No.
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Do you believe everything that's written on Wikipedia?
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No way.
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Right?
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It's very interesting.
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Yeah.
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But it's not about me.
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So anyway, but did I answer your question?
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Yeah, you did.
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It's very interesting.
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I'm just, one thing that just popped in my head was what if they add AI, I guess, finish
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Mozart, you know, just or Chopin died very young in age, have AI write pieces in Chopin
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style and such, or it's just, I'm just imagining the possibilities.
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Well, yeah, there are lots of possibilities like that.
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In terms of, you know, Hollywood is on strike right now, and I'm just wondering whether
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they're going to really ban the use of AI or script writers and the use of writers rooms
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and everything like that.
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Or, I don't know if you're a movie buff, but if you ever watched the movie Dune, one thing
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that they instilled in that, I guess, dystopian future is certain amounts of technology are
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not allowed because they're afraid of sentience within artificial intelligence.
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So I'm just wondering of, especially in art, how far is artificial intelligence going to
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go?
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I know it's a very interesting topic, but also scary too.
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I totally understand.
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And, you know, AI takes over everything then.
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Are we disappearing?
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Are we disappearing from the dark?
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But, you know, I don't know.
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Is humanity due for extinction?
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Probably not, because I would say that either run a computer program to write, to play music
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rather, but it will never be the same as a human would because maybe the part of the
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beauty is in the imperfection itself.
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Maybe part of the beauty is in the wheezing as you're recording the album and you're
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bit by a spider.
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Maybe that little bit of humanity is what creates art in itself.
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Who knows?
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Maybe.
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And then that's the point, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I totally believe in humanity and our ability because of imperfection, I think, in the end
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we win.
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We'll have to.
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Right.
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I'd like to believe that.
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Now, before going to the next fun segment, let me just remind my listeners that Ludovic's
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album, Amore, is available on all music streaming services, correct?
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Correct.
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Like Apple Music?
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Apple Music.
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Well, my distributor, they're still writing the contracts with Apple Music, so it will
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be released soon.
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Okay.
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So Spotify, Amazon, for sure.
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Correct.
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Everything but Apple Music Classical right now.
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Got it.
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And then to learn more about Ludovic's work, please visit ludovicsamore.com and I've released
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all the information in the description.
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So this has been really fun.
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So before I let you go, we have one more thing to do.
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It's called the Piano Club Rapid Fire Questions.
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And yes, and this is part of the show where I get to ask fun questions to each guest.
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Now, here's a little twist.
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As silly as these questions may sound, your answers may reveal who you truly are.
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So are you ready?
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I'll try my best.
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Right.
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Good answer.
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So please answer them with the shortest responses possible.
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No explanation needed is necessary.
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Understood.
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All right.
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Question number one.
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What is your comfort food?
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Burgers.
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Or no, steak.
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Steak, rather.
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How do you like your coffee?
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Black.
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Cats or dogs?
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Cats.
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Sunrise or sunset?
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Sunrise.
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Summer or winter?
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Summer.
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Are you a good old paper book user or evil?
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Paper book.
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What is your word or words to live by?
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Try your best.
480
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I don't know.
481
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Right.
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What is the most important quality you look for in other people?
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Discipline.
484
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Discipline.
485
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Yes.
486
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I can see that lie after that conversation.
487
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All right.
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Name three people who inspire you, living or dead.
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Sergey Rachmaninoff, Fredrik Chopin, Marcus Aurelius.
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Name one piece in your current playlist.
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Doesn't have to be classical.
492
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Okay.
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Autumn Song by Peter Ilychakovsky.
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Now last question.
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Fill in the blank.
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Music is blank.
497
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Music is love.
498
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Of course.
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Amor.
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That's true.
501
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:24,600
Perfect answer.
502
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Ding ding ding.
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You won.
504
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So this concludes this episode of The Piano Ball.
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Thank you Ludwig for joining my show today and sharing your stories and insights, expertise.
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You can learn more about him and his amazing work through his website at ludwigsamor.com.
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You can listen to his album or more on all major music streaming services except for
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Apple Music currently.
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And all the links are listed in the show notes.
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And thank you to my wonderful audience and fans for tuning in.
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If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate and review it on whatever podcasting platform
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you use.
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Remember to hit the thumbs up button to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you are watching
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this episode on video.
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Follow TPP on social media to get the latest piano news via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
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and LinkedIn.
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I will see you for the next episode of the Piano Ball.
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Bye everyone and thank you Ludwig.
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Thanks for having me.
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Thank you.
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Bye everyone.