1:03 - Interview starts
16:53 - Transcribing Wayne Shorter's works
Phillip Golub is a Brooklyn-based pianist, improviser, and composer. We talk on Phillip's career and his work in transcribing Wayne Shorter's work, as well as some thoughts on the increasing challenges musicians face industrially. All in all a fascinating chat!
Discussion topics covered during the show:
Phillip's musical upbringing
Establishing a career in music
Phillip playing with Layale Chaker and the Sarafand Ensemble - https://www.youtube.com/live/HMPEulP5...
Tropos - Fronk - • Fronk (feat. Raef Sengupta & Laila Sm...
Breaking down the binary of composition and improvisation
Approaching transcription and realising the work of others
Steinberg Dorico - • Next-Generation Music Notation Softwa...
Why Phillip prefers Dorico over Sibelius
How Phillip came to be the transcriber of Wayne Shorter's works
Esperanza Spalding - • esperanza spalding - Formwela 12 feat...
Attempting to assess Wayne Shorter's impact on music
Phillip Golub - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - • It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Chr...
Phillip's approach to creating music the past decade
The importance of working with other people and sustained collaboration
Phillip's work with the Music Worker's Alliance and the industrial challenges musicians face - • STILL NY: Music Worker's Alliance Int...
Session pay versus recording for 'pizza and beer'
Artificial intelligence and keeping music human
Phillip's favourite non-piano keyboards
Phillip's Pianoteq inspired instrument, the Flexichord
How lower quality key beds can be a creative opportunity
Tag a Keyboard Player: Dana Saul - • Reflection in a Moving Surface
Desert Island Discs: Junk Magic - Craig Taborn, Silent Tongues - Cecil Taylor, Autotrophs - Cory Smythe, Dusk - Andrew Hill, Open, To Love - Paul Bley, Largo - Brad Mehldau
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