Paul "Willie Green" Womack is a music producer, mixer, and artist based out of Brooklyn, NY, USA! In our conversation, Willie shares his journey from the Berklee College of Music to producing and mixing independent hip hop in Brooklyn. He shares insights on having professionalism and confidence, the importance of sleep, enjoying the journey, serving the music, and bringing others into your creative process. We go deep on NFTs, immersive audio, the diminishing value of art in a noisy content-driven world and how the music industry spreads artists too thin. We also go deep on his project "Press Play" where Willie created sonic art from visual works of art in order to enhance said visual art exhibition! Check it out!
You can learn more about Willie at https://www.williegreenmusic.com/
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ReferencesFernando Lodeiro - https://www.benwallick.com/podcast-episodes/2022/1/1/secret-sonics-126-fernando-lodeiro-nurturing-relationships-in-the-studio
Smokey Robinson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Robinson
Backwoodz Studioz - https://backwoodzstudioz.com/
super chron flight brothers - https://backwoodzstudioz.com/products/super-chron-flight-brothers-cape-verde
Damian Taylor - https://www.benwallick.com/podcast-episodes/2021/11/28/secret-sonics-123-damian-taylor-music-productions-deep-thinker
“Nightmares.” - Open Mike Eagle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSf7RvaSS4A&ab_channel=OpenMikeEagle
Press Play - https://williegreen.bandcamp.com/album/press-play
Sonic Photo app - https://www.skytopia.com/software/sonicphoto/
Haram record - https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/haram
What’s Going On Marvin Gaye - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDK7TiEiMOI&ab_channel=MarvinGayeVEVO
RX - https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html
Spectral Layers - https://www.steinberg.net/spectralayers/
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