Quarantine Stories: Creative Inspiration in Lockdown

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04/14/20 • 13 min

Episode 4 of Quarantine Stories focuses on creativity - what inspires it and what it means during this unprecedented time in history. Grammy Award-nominated and multi-platinum selling record producer, composer, musician and DJ Matt Lange talks about how he's channeling his anxiety and frustration into new creative projects. Cody Matthew Johnson - composer, musician and Founder/ CEO of Emperia Sound and Music, an audio technology company for interactive media and video games - spoke with us about staying motivated creatively for what comes next after our collective quarantine.

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Quarantine Stories: Coping with Our Collective Anxiety

In this episode of our Quarantine Stories series, we spoke with internationally acclaimed singer, composer and musician Azam Ali, who was supposed to be performing with her band Niyaz this spring until COVID-19 hit. She talks about coping with her anxiety by helping others, creating a GoFundMe for musicians who need financial assistance. Filmmaker Scott Garen (A Thousand Roads, American Renegade) talks about dealing with his own anxiety by learning to create joy on a daily basis, and how this pandemic is fundamentally changing us as humans.

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Quarantine Stories: OMG WTF Politics and Viral Videos

Author, producer, content creator, and activist Ben Sheehan (Funny or Die) talks about launching his new book OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? in the middle of a pandemic - shortly after recovering from COVID-19 himself. And musician/ composer Emer Kinsella was looking for creative ways to help support and uplift studio musicians who are struggling in this pandemic, and created an incredibly clever video that went viral.
Ben Sheehan: OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?
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