{"id":4428,"date":"2015-06-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marmoset-journal.flywheelsites.com\/2015-2-creating-a-life-of-a-full-time-artist\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T21:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T04:27:36","slug":"creating-a-life-of-a-full-time-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/creating-a-life-of-a-full-time-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating A Life As A Full Time Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-hidden\n          design-layout-inline\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:100%;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n                style=\"padding-bottom:66.66667175292969%;\"\n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n  data-animation-override\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beautiful-eulogy.jpg\" alt=\"beautiful-eulogy.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beautiful-eulogy.jpg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/beautiful-eulogy.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"630x420\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"beautiful-eulogy.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"54d53317e4b0c433a9706ab7\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<h1>Field Notes Interview #24: Beautiful Eulogy, Marmoset Artists<\/h1>\n<p>NW Hip Hop ensemble, <a href=\"http:\/\/marmosetmusic.com\/artists\/beautiful-eulogy\">Beautiful Eulogy<\/a> have figured it out \u2014&nbsp;they&#8217;ve managed to create a sustainable career out of their music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Composed of well-respected&nbsp;producers,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/marmosetmusic.com\/artists\/courtland-urbano\">Courtland Urbano<\/a>, Braille and Odd Thomas, this ensemble conducts their music career as&nbsp;a 9-5 working life, both serving as musicians&nbsp;and owners of their label <strong>Humble Beast<\/strong>. They&#8217;ve fulfilled both roles to create a driven and dedicated&nbsp;career for themselves. Their soundtrack work is also a force to be reckoned with, and with works like their recent collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.marmosetmusic.com\/read\/2015\/6\/stories-from-strangers-an-interview-with-documentary-filmmaker-max-esposito\">Max Esposito&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Raising 7<\/em><\/a>, their music leaves a powerful, emotional presence &nbsp;in film.<\/p>\n<p>We got a chance to chat with them about their lives as artists, producers and label owners. As well as their thoughts on the important role of music in picture.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>M: When did you start writing music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BE: <\/strong>We&#8217;ve been individually&nbsp;creating music for most of our lives,&nbsp;having&nbsp;all&nbsp;started&nbsp;roughly&nbsp;around the teenage years.&nbsp;It&#8217;s only been 4 years since we started making music collectively as Beautiful Eulogy.&nbsp;Our&nbsp;pasts&nbsp;are rooted mostly&nbsp;in the hip hop genre, and though our music still has that foundational element, it\u2019s definitely now&nbsp;more&nbsp;of a hybrid including many different musical genres and influences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M: What does a day in the life of a working musician look like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BE: <\/strong>It looks very much a like a regular 9 to 5 for us. Beyond making music as a group we also have the daily tasks of running our record label, Humble Beast. This includes overseeing and producing other&nbsp;artists&#8217;&nbsp;albums, A&amp;R, mixing, mastering, marketing, etc. So our work really has to be planned out to accomplish all these things in&nbsp;an&nbsp;orderly fashion. When it comes to our personal music pursuits,&nbsp;we always start out with a concept. Most of the time, album titles and track titles are created before we even start the music making process, so&nbsp;that&nbsp;we have a clear idea and objective. We believe this helps give us a direction on how best to communicate the emotion of each song, much like a film score, how the visuals can direct the mood in which the music should be made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M: What role do you feel music has in film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BE: <\/strong>Music has a way of culminating an emotional undertone to the viewer of a film like no other medium. It has the ability to express multiple emotional characteristics simultaneously, much like our personal lives do,&nbsp;engaging&nbsp;the viewer\u2019s senses on a multitude of levels. We believe music\u2019s main goal in the context of film should be accentuating the object or narrative of the film; living in a harmonious relationship with one another to capture the attention of the audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M: How do you feel your song complimented the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/117500243\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Film Lab&#8217;s Reel<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BE: <\/strong>It turned out&nbsp;beautifully! When watching it, there\u2019s a sense of seriousness&nbsp;and passion to their creative work, and we believe the music played a great role in conveying that emotion for the reel. We\u2019re fans of their ability to visually communicate, and we hope to supply more musical accompaniment for them in the future.<\/p>\n<p>   <iframe data-src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117500243?wmode=opaque&amp;api=1\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Film Lab  \/\/  2015 Demo Reel\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1423256387666_21197\"><strong>M: What are you excited about for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1423256387666_21198\"><strong>BE: <\/strong>We\u2019re excited about the&nbsp;upcoming&nbsp;albums we have on&nbsp;Humble Beast&#8217;s&nbsp;docket, which includes our third full-length album as Beautiful Eulogy. We are also excited about the possibility of having more of our music licensed by visual creatives and film makers. We believe the way we approach our music fits incredibly well with the storytelling of visual arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Field Notes Interview #24: Beautiful Eulogy, Marmoset Artists NW Hip Hop ensemble, Beautiful Eulogy have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[314,212,693,196,151,267,328,218,690,33,10,206,692,688],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-field-notes","tag-film","tag-film-lab-creative","tag-filmmaker","tag-filmmaking","tag-hip-hop","tag-interview","tag-licensing","tag-life","tag-marmoset","tag-marmoset-music","tag-music","tag-musical","tag-odd-thomas","has-excerpt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}