Chilly Gonzales on Art and Artifice | Red Bull Music Academy

In his lecture at the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy, Gonzales opened up about his formative years, time in Berlin with Peaches and how Franz Liszt birthed the musician as celebrity. #RBMA

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0:40 - "When groups get together and there’s institutions and structure, some people will start to conform."
10:14 - Hip-hop
23:12 - "I decided to say that I’m going to run for President of the Berlin underground."
26:31 - Artifice
40:31 - Loving Lizst
58:20 - "Songwriting has to be 100% personal. It’s walking out onstage. It’s taking a photo, choosing an album title. All that you have to have in mind. It can’t be personal any more. It has to be fantastical, which is still personal."

Pianist, composer and entertainer Chilly Gonzales is no ordinary musician. Originally from Canada, he has broken a Guinness world record for the longest solo piano concert, scored a Grammy for his contribution to Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories and seamlessly switches from working with Boys Noize to Feist to Drake. Key to Gonzales' work is a desire to push the boundaries of what is considered entertainment, continuously tackling the high brow/low brow dichotomy.

The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.

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