20 – Interview with Arn Andersson – How to feed Creativity and Passion

This episode of Sync Music Matters is an Interview with Arn Andersson Arn Andersson is a Norwegian multi-instrumentalist, composer and music producer. In pursuing a passion as a profession we are treading the line between art and commerce and sometimes we can focus so much on the commerce that we lose sight of the passion. Arn talks about his journey and not being afraid to try new things but also pivot if necessary. Arn has some deep insights on creativity and shares his daily practice of the Morning Five. Essentially writing a piece of music whilst restricting himself to just five instruments. He developed it as an antidote to overthinking his creative process. Arn has some deep insights on creativity and shares his daily practice of writing a piece of music whilst restricting himself to just five instruments. We also chat about his current documentary project of exploring different musical cultures from around the world. He’s written music for trailers and libraries of which some credits include the Netflix natural history documentary “The Living World”, The Lego Movie (the second part) and The Netflix documentary Beckham. Arn has also dabbled in sound design, has worked with artists and labels and is the co-founder of Evenant which is a platform for providing education and tools for aspiring creatives in Music & Art. Today, Evanant has a community of over 300,000 people across over 100 countries, and an educational library of over 360 hours of content. Interview with Arn Andersson (00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:52) What was your path into music? (00:13:09) Five Layers composing technique (00:21:18) Under The Skin - Finding Rhythm (00:35:42) Cofounding Evanant courses (00:45:57) Resources that have helped you in your career\ (00:48:43) Getting a Taste - Music and art that has shaped you creatively (00:54:06) Creativity practice You can listen to Arn's Music here: Website Arn on Instagram