In Rhythm with Brett Blake
For 25-year-old Artist, Audio Engineer and Producer, Brett Blake, what inspires him to continue down his journey of music is the inspiration he gets from other artists that he aspires to be like one day.
At the age of eight, Blake became indulged with music after staying home sick from school one day with his brother.
“My brother showed me a concert video of The Blue Man Group and I saw them making these really cool sounds on tubes, and other various objects and that kind of expanded what I originally thought music was,” shares Blake. “Then I got a bit older and heard the song Around The World by Daft Punk and realized that you don’t just have to bang and strum on objects, but you could also make a new song by tweaking around tonal properties on synthesizers and make music through electronics. The weirder the process, the better the music.”
Sharing that he has ADHD, it can make it hard for him to really think in a typical way, which makes it either really easy to come up with ideas or really hard for him.
“Sometimes thinking of the ideas is easy and trying to articulate them is the hard part. And then there’s an ADHD term called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and that causes a lot of anxiety to actually putting yourself out there,” he explains. “One thing I heard a lot growing up was “The worst someone can say to you is ‘no’.” but when you have ADHD, that “no” can be crippling.”
After being involved with music for some time, Blake is currently working on the idea to create the platform, S|H|A|P|E Entertainment. where artists can put out all their work, no matter what their medium is and get paid for their work.
“I use Ableton Live which is such a good tool to just put ideas down but a lot of them go unfinished and go into an idea graveyard called my hard drive. There’s really no rhyme or reason, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” Blake explains. “But the thing about making music is that you have to chase it. There’s no sitting down and waiting for that inspiration to come to you in a dream.”
Describing himself as hilarious, awesome and humble, Blake shares nothing really empowers him or keeps him motivated, because it’s all about the kind of work you gotta put in yourself.
“Sometimes life hits you hard and you get rocked and you gotta take a rest and take a step back from what you do, but rest and recreation is a part of the grind and loving what you do is also a huge motivator,” Blake says.
To learn more about S|H|A|P|E Entertainment and to listen to some of Brett’s creations, click the links below:
https://bit.ly/3DS2b2G
https://apple.co/3fs7lJm
At the age of eight, Blake became indulged with music after staying home sick from school one day with his brother.
“My brother showed me a concert video of The Blue Man Group and I saw them making these really cool sounds on tubes, and other various objects and that kind of expanded what I originally thought music was,” shares Blake. “Then I got a bit older and heard the song Around The World by Daft Punk and realized that you don’t just have to bang and strum on objects, but you could also make a new song by tweaking around tonal properties on synthesizers and make music through electronics. The weirder the process, the better the music.”
Sharing that he has ADHD, it can make it hard for him to really think in a typical way, which makes it either really easy to come up with ideas or really hard for him.
“Sometimes thinking of the ideas is easy and trying to articulate them is the hard part. And then there’s an ADHD term called Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and that causes a lot of anxiety to actually putting yourself out there,” he explains. “One thing I heard a lot growing up was “The worst someone can say to you is ‘no’.” but when you have ADHD, that “no” can be crippling.”
After being involved with music for some time, Blake is currently working on the idea to create the platform, S|H|A|P|E Entertainment. where artists can put out all their work, no matter what their medium is and get paid for their work.
“I use Ableton Live which is such a good tool to just put ideas down but a lot of them go unfinished and go into an idea graveyard called my hard drive. There’s really no rhyme or reason, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” Blake explains. “But the thing about making music is that you have to chase it. There’s no sitting down and waiting for that inspiration to come to you in a dream.”
Describing himself as hilarious, awesome and humble, Blake shares nothing really empowers him or keeps him motivated, because it’s all about the kind of work you gotta put in yourself.
“Sometimes life hits you hard and you get rocked and you gotta take a rest and take a step back from what you do, but rest and recreation is a part of the grind and loving what you do is also a huge motivator,” Blake says.
To learn more about S|H|A|P|E Entertainment and to listen to some of Brett’s creations, click the links below:
https://bit.ly/3DS2b2G
https://apple.co/3fs7lJm