Source Materials
Beyond Creative Compression
Welcome to Source Materials
Our evolving space to explore how experienced creatives are increasingly being asked to chart and navigate a path through a cultural landscape that is constrained and informed by the maze, noise and static of Creative Compression.
For those creatives, artists and cultural innovators who are tired of their voices getting continually narrowed by algorithmic filters, flattened into feeds and debased by AI generated slop but refuse to let technology diminish the very sense of their authentic selves, potential and practice.
Who are now searching for new ways back into source, in order to again channel creative alchemy, not algorithms.
SOURCE CODECS
Source Codecs is our pioneering audio series, where we have short but insightful conversations with people currently navigating and channeling source in vital new modes, frameworks and practices.
In this first Source Codec we are fortunate to talk to Marc Zegans about his compelling new framework - MIRAI-ARI
A new map for exploring and understanding how source engages with material reality, in order to then channel and open up a new form of synchronous and emergent flow.
From which vital new work can initially arise and be sufficiently tended to - in order to potentially flourish within its own language of creative resonance and sphere of cultural influence.
LISEN TO THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN DAN | AM AND MARC BELOW
Marc works with artists charting next steps, writers moving through blocks, creative organisations in transition, musicians seeking sustainable income, artists planning their creative legacies and business innovators craving a more rewarding work life, and many others.
Connect with Marc at MyCreativeDevelopment.com
In personal correspondence, Zegans notes, "In The Faun’s Bookshelf: C.S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters (Black Squirrel Books, 2018, p.10) Charles W. Starr observes that in C.S. Lewis’s view '...Tolkien’s great myth at moments achieves a level of invention where the author has produced something that isn’t even his own—that reads as if it comes to the author by intuitive revelation, not artistic invention.’ I believe that such moments in any work result from the confluence of revelation, invention, and skill, and that even the articulation of revealed truth is shaped by the maker's hand and inventive capabilities. Accordingly, my MIRAI diagram frames revelation, artistic invention, and the application of maker’s craft as a continuing conversation through which the results of creative effort do sometimes achieve transcendental moments of the type that Lewis describes.”
Source Materials is delivered via Dan | Am
A pioneering “music preducer” and cultural disruptor, operating at the intersection of groundbreaking artistry, cutting-edge technology and startup innovation for 30+ years.
Fortunate to have learnt from and consistently worked alongside innovative and iconic figures who ripped up and frequently rewrote the rulebook in their respective fields.
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Very interesting. I'm listening to Source Ode now. Thanks for this work.
Congratulations on your most auspicious launch of Source Materials, and thank you for marvelous interviewing skills. I was honored join you in conversation for the first of your Source Codecs.