The Art of Listening - Music Documentary (2021)
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- The Art of Listening is a documentary film about the journey music takes to reach a listener’s ear, from the intent of an instrument maker and composer, to the producers and engineers who capture and preserve an artist’s voice. This journey is narrated by intimate conversations with artists, engineers and producers about the philosophy of their work and the intent behind each musical note they create.
This film is an invitation for music fans to rediscover the intricacies and details available in their favorite recordings. The Art of Listening is the beginning of a conversation of how the quality of our listening experiences define the medium.
Directed by:
Michael Coleman
www.colemanfilm.com
Emmanuel Moran
www.emmanuelmoran.com
Original Score Soundtrack:
Christopher Willits
www.christopherwillits.com
More Information:
www.theartoflisteningfilm.com
Featuring:
Alex DeTurk
Alyssa Bonagura
Andrew Scheps
Antonio Sanchez
Beacon
Christopher Willits
Dave Smith
David Chesky
Ethan Diamond
Gabriel Roth
Gustavo Santaolalla
Hans Zimmer
Hiatus Kaiyote
Ian Schneller
Jack Douglas
James Brown
Jason Bentley
Jean Larrivée
John McBride
John Storyk
Jonathan Galkin
Kamasi Washington
Mark de Clive-Lowe
Marc Weinstein
Mike Milosh
Reggie Watts
Steve Guttenberg
Steve Vai
Tycho
The Chainsmokers
Tim Westergren
Todd Simon
Warren Huart
R.I.P. Dave Smith. Your contribution to modern music has influenced countless lives, and you will be missed.
Nothing replaces the feeling in a live music the emotions in that moment is incredible
37:33 - Gustavo Santaolalla part - what a wonderful section in this documentary!
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it's more like a love letter to music. thanks to everyone who made this
Even as a non musician I have visited top end studios out of curiosity. As a hardend hyperfocused audio phile I see the efforts my favourite artists make. Love to hear these amazing people in a small room. Have heard Janice Ian off mic at the front of stage sitting near her and Ellenor Mc Evoy playing a guitar standing behind me without a pa and other local artists. If a decent system gives me even some of that connection I'm in. 💯 percent. Great doco here. Well done.
Excellent! 🤓🎶
Sometimes I am absolutely blown away that we live in a world dominated by companies that design algorithms that daily suggest click bait and low brow cheapened generic media and advertisements and yet that also take years to finally recommend videos like this one to me, a thoroughly music, audio, and creativity-obsessed person. 😑
youre right
I just want to add what a wonderfully crafted traditionally made documentary this is. It’s so nice to enjoy excellent camerawork, location sound, editing and direction. You took me on a thoroughly enjoyable journey. Big thanks.
Thank you. I'm kind of a failed audio engineer, but I still love the industry. Huge fan of music, its reproduction, recording, and its performance. Also an audiophile. Cool to see Steve Guttenberg in the documentary. Helped reaffirm my knowledge, that great music makes you feel powerful emotions. Peace!
Why Would you say you failed
If you still alive, you haven't failed
You never failed, you just decided to take a break. Hopefully you get back on it, regardless of your age.
This was fantastic. And sadly, since music class was cancelled today, I wanted to show a good documentary to my 7th and 8th graders. Glad I chose this. Aside from two f-bombs and one shit...it was just perfect. Tough group o' kids to be engaged with something like this, but they made me so g-damn proud, as they were in it 100%. It was great.
That's awesome, I love that! I loved this video as well so I'm glad tomorrow's adults are getting exposed to this stuff too!
Listen to Dimash's música 🎶 😌
If they like it, then I will like it, so I will give it a watch, thank you for your review.
lol yeah you'd never hear a musician drop an "f-bomb" and documentaries should leave anything that offends the most prudish ppl on earth
nice
This was the doco I've been looking for. I'm a musician who has been collecting music for nearly 50 years. I've also done some DAW recordings. Younger people who've never known hi fidelity really should watch this to learn the value of listening as an art.
So much of what I have felt about music my whole life, but eloquently worded by very talented musical and technical exponents.
Randomly came across this at 12am. Thought I‘ll watch a few mins to see what its about. Got hooked and finished this great documentary. I‘m at a loss for words for how well it’s made. Thank you🙏🏻
A really great documentary. Thank you to Michael Coleman, Emmanuel Moran and all who gave their time and insights for this film.
Absolutely fantastic documentary! Especially glad that this is not from the perspective of over-engineered, over-produced popular top-list songs.
Love and respect the passion of the musicians in this documentary. Very inspiring!
38:54 the highlight of this documentary.this man's music is simply beatiful
I agree.
what's the song?
czcams.com/video/mMSwgG4UOWo/video.html
Thank you for this documentary. I immediately thought of my brother-in-law, Harold Summey Jr, who is an amazing award-winning drummer. He came to life in this beautiful documentary about drums, music, singers, and music! It is just beautiful. Thank you, thank you.
That was sooo well done. It's easy to get lost in the process and find yourself unable to really listen. Your documentary really connected me with the artists in this work of art and gave voice to some complicated feelings that brought me into the creative world in the first place. Thank you so much - and congrats on an incredible presentation.
Excellent work! Interestingly, I just came out of my music room, having thrown away weeks of work to start over again, because I want to get it right, and this popped up when I sat down. I've been discussing (well, arguing vehemently in a lot of cases) about a lot of the topics discussed in this documentary for a long time now.
I'm a highly skilled software developer, but when it comes to music, I've purposefully turned my back on tech as much as possible. I have to use a computer, since tape isn't practical for most of us, but I use it like a tape deck. It's for recording a playback and that's it. No editing, no tuning, no quantizing, no automation, and only one plugin (for drums, until I can get out of this apartment and into a house where I can use real ones.) I'm trying to learn to record it as it should sound, with all the nuance, dynamics, sonics, etc... Thus far I mostly suck at it, but I won't stop sucking unless I actually do it, and make the process as important as the product.
In the end, no one cares if I post another song, so why on earth would I want to spend a bunch of time editing a bunch of bits into song form just to post it to a smattering of polite (if I'm lucky) comments. I prefer to spend my time learning how to play better, record better, hear better, write better, etc... The journey is the destination, and it really has to be because it's not like it's going to end in universal adulation. But, if I keep going this way, at some point, I'll be able to create songs fairly quickly, but still very organically, because I'll have the chops on all fronts to take what's in my head and make it so by just playing and recording it.
The tech creates a situation where too many people are just interested in 'posting songs'. And there's far too much inhuman perfection, enabled by incredibly powerful digital audio tools. And music has too much become part of the IT Department, where 'performances' are just raw materials to chop up and drop on a grid, assuming there were any actual performances at all. What kills me is that so many people back in the day complained about the artificiality of commercial music and how it was just a product, and how these new tools were going to change all that. Well, no. Most individuals making music are doing so vastly more artificially than any label did back then, and it's enormously about product over process.
I have no problem with obviously synthetic music, I like a lot of it, it's more that these days music that is ostensibly human is really synthetic, because someone has sat at a computer for hours and hours, editing it to death. Even artists who are obviously quite skilled are still edited to death, because it's now seen as necessary to be competitive.
I can't understand how there hasn't been a massive backlash already. It used to be that a decade of some particular type of music being dominant would create a generation who hated it all and went in a completely different direction. But it seems like the internet has sort of broken that cycle.
What a wonderful and original documentary. Very well sourced and produced too! RIP Dave Smith - he was behind many of my fondest memories...
This is the kind of video that should have 20 million views. Absolutely brilliant film making. 👏🏻 Lots of take aways here for my own music making and ways of listening. Thank you ❤🔥
Left me with an ever deeper love for music! Thank you
This is awesome. As someone who appreciates the process of making music itself, thank you for putting this together 🙌
The point of music is the process going from scratch to something new with your own mind and hands .
You’ve helped me find more ways to express to friends and peers why I’m a music lover. Thank you!
What a great piece of documentary film making.
Being a retired working musician and a percussion teacher I feel this film could be a real great tool in the classroom.
Dare I say this film is important.
Well done sir!
Thank you for your time and attention to a truly necessary topic.
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Amazing. So inspiring and informative. Load of thanks to the entire team and all the artists, engineers and producers for being a part of it.
This was wonderful. It really captures the spirit of both writing / producing music and listening to it. Thank you!
Amazing documentary!! If you do music at all this speaks to you on another level!
Such an awesome DOC , thank you for sharing and much love to all those who participated...
this film presents it's topic with great clarity. Insights from a wide spectrum of talented people with diverse skillsets.
Great! Glad to Gustavo Santaolalla be there.
thank you just rumbling along trying and trying to do something and this is inspiring no matter who you are or what you do this is pure inspiration!
marvelous craftsmanship,.. and then Spotify or whomever comes along and digitally compresses it to 128kbs. 🙂
I really appreciate the intention behind this film. Thank You!
What a wonderful documentary, thanks for sharing this with the world, i ended up with teary eyes, it's beautiful to see other people that music it's their life motor too ❤.
-Music it's one of the greatest gift that humanity has.
So much of this hit the nail on the head. Plus, love the Neotek Console at the beginning!
Fantastic documentary, so well made and great contributors. Anyone with a passion for music should watch this. "you need to love it more not more of it" - Gabriel Roth, AKA Bosco Mann
Loved it! Well put together, interesting people, great stories and just an overall good documentary! Needs more views!
Glad to stumble upon this. Thanks for puttin this online.
Wonderful documentary! As a drummer I particularly appreciated the section on tones and versatility of the drum set. However I was disappointed that so few women were included, and those two were singer songwriters. I hope if you do this again you’ll include more of the the many many many women producers, conductors, instrumentalists/performers, etc.
I was disappointed, too. It made me sad, actually. Please include more women next time 🙏
The Song at around 40;00 is so damn beautiful. I love it.
Thank you for that.
The ability to download and replay live performances and unique cover versions is the the USP that CZcams Music has over other music products. It's the only way I have to get closer to the "live" experience, given I live in a rural setting with almost no physical live music available. My partner gets to listen to me playing live and she says she prefers CZcams Music too 😂
What a great doc with a great cast of inspiring craftspeople. Loved it!
Really beautiful, thanks for making this and sharing!
It would be great if they added some music to this documentary. I think I'll make a documentary about the power of dialogue but, of course, it'll be purely instrumental. Then the world will be balanced once again.
Listening on my headphones while I cook and suddenly I hear a recognizable voice.
It was Steve Vai.
This is wonderful! Thank you for making this. My students will also benefit.
thanks man. You have saved me from lot of troubles and tiring work. Really appreciate your help.!!!
Thanks a lot for this documentary!
Magnificent!
Vibes ✨
Amazing documentary, thanks!
Brilliant documentary. I’m inspired to listen and create music now!
damn the drummer's room is really live, it was way different sound then the ones before it.
Wow so amazing to watch
The moment I saw Andrew Scheps I knew this was going to be great.
Wonderfully crafted and beautifully told by top- notch sonic grios...thank you muy very mucho!❤
Thank you for producing this film. As an Album/Poster Artist, I'm blessed to listen to fresh mixes and masters to visualize for the artwork before release. Thank you... the warmth matters.
Thank you so much for that!!! Wonderful
Seems like a companion piece to PressPausePlay. Love it. Beautifully shot and the pacing of the cut is well thought out and executed.
Incredible documentary. Thank you so much for this ❤
Thank you for making this
A gem 💠 thank you.
Thank you for this.
This is absolutely fantastic
What a great video on this subject. I really hope that the industry changes from good enough to great for the delivery of music. With today's technology there is no excuse for poor audio. The way music is marketed to the general public is a travesty and MP3 is not good enough. Memory is so affordable today and in high density so anything lower than CD quality is ridiculous.
Love and respect! Wonderfully done documentary
Thank you for this. I was entertained.
Brilliant film❤
This is truly masterpiece Thank you so much 🙌
Meaningful great upload
Well done folks. Love it more not more of it... 😍
...and thanks for the extra in the end ❤
What a great film, thanks 👌🏽
wonderful film. thank you.
Well done, thanks for sharing...
For Me As An Artist, This Is Our Basics - Hope You Enjoy The Program.
Wonderfull documentary..!!
♡♡♡♡☆☆☆☆☆☆
Ots not often I run across something on the internet worthy of my time, thos Documentary is EPIC!!!
I Feel that I now understamd why I am an audiophile, if in the least to be saturated in Music and Soundscape, but I already know I am not satisfied with merely listening.
I know I must make music now...
The efforts that have gone into producing this Documemtary are far greater than amything happening on Television, and in a few particular ways, represents what the internet is truly about. SHARING, GIVING, ENJOYING. NETWORKING.
I have to watch this for my band class, wish me luck! 1/18/2023
Thank you
Antonio freakin sannnchezzz, killller drummer right there!
This is beautiful. Very helpful ferny music production career
Excellent. Bravo!
Really great documentary giving a great insight into the creative process of conveying emotion through music. Nice to see the end of the documentary highlighting the importance of allowing the emotional content of music through by not messing up the process through crappy mastering and poor delivery through inferior sound. Buy yourself a decent stereo system people.
Great great documentary
loved it lived it
Great Doc. Inspiring!
Inspiring! Thankyou ❤
amazing!
Amazing stuff!
a very nice film, thank you!!!
Great documentary
Thank you for this
Thank you for this. Great work
Hats off to Steve Boeddeker.
the documentary is very nice realised, each shot is great and fill of mean.
This is beautiful
Thank you❤
Well done.Perhaps a documentary on ECM?
That was amazing