Curry Café: Young Musicians and the Inspirational Power of Music

In this episode of Curry Café, hosts Ray Gary and Rick McNamer welcome young musicians Jude Davidson, a violinist, and Blake Reynolds, an electronic music composer, to discuss their musical journeys, inspirations, and creative processes. Jude shares his love for classical music and his experiences performing at local venues, while Blake highlights his passion for […]

Episode Transcript

(00:04):
Okay. Well, hello again, KCIW
listeners, and welcome to Curry Cafe.
I'm producer and volunteer Rick McNamer.
Every Sunday from three to 4PM,
your host, Ray Gary, puts together a panel
of guests to discuss topics of interest in
our community.
Listeners can participate by texting questions or comments

(00:24):
to
(541)
661-4098.
Again, that's (541)
661-4098.
Now here's Ray to tell us about today's
show.
Yeah, Rick. That's a little bit of a
different show today. I'm I'm kinda somewhat known
in the community for playing, records by the

(00:44):
Coasters, Little Richard and the Isley Brothers. But
today, we're we're gonna go to another
aspect of music that I've heard about but
don't know anything about.
So we will,
start out by having everybody go around the
table
and introduce themselves. Maybe, do a little bit
of self promotion and
or whatever you wanna do.

(01:07):
Go ahead, Jude. What sport should I say?
Introduce It's you say your name. My name
is
Yeah. Hi. I'm Jude.
I play the violin and, yeah.
I'm sorry. I didn't get your name. Oh,
hi. I'm Jude, and, I play the violin.
Okay.
Hi. I'm Blake.

(01:27):
I make electronic music,
beats, whatnot, and my Spotify is one dead
guy.
No spaces.
Yeah.
Right on. Okay. Thanks, Blake.
And, of course, we also have
special Hi. I'm Sue Wright. I'm with the
Wild Rivers Film Festival, and Jude and Blake

(01:48):
are both students in this
summer's film workshop.
So,
in addition to their music, they're learning to
act. They're learning to run sound equipment
and,
cameras. And
this next week, the second week of our
workshop, they're going to be
actually in production

(02:09):
for a series of skits that will become
a teen comedy news program.
That sounds great. So you guys are having
the you get the full spectrum of what's
going on here. Yeah.
Well, if I can chime in real quick.
Why don't each of you, if you don't
mind, give a quick background when you first
started what
you know? Yeah. Just give yourself a little

(02:31):
quick background.
How old you are? Yada yada.
I'm,
I'm
13, and, I started violin when I was
five. K.
That's good enough for now. So we'll get
we'll get to more later. Go ahead, Blake.
I'm 13, twenty fourteen pretty soon.

(02:53):
I've been listening to music my whole life.
My dad's been my dad plays
my dad has always played for played me
music.
So I kinda had the feel of just
a lot of different genres of music before
I started making music.
And I think I get a lot of
my talent from my grandpa,
Jimmy.
And and what did he did he play
an instrument too? Yes. He was very good

(03:15):
at the piano. He was Awesome. Insanely good
at the piano.
Okay.
So go ahead. I I have a question.
When I see somebody your age playing a
piano,
a violin,
I'm thinking more like you should be playing
a Stratocaster or something like that. How did
you get well, if it was five guitar.
Maybe it was forced on you. How did
you get to be play the violin

(03:38):
instead of a Stratocaster?
Well, when I was,
like, four, I was going through a farmer's
market,
And,
I saw this group of people playing the
violin, and I was like, hey. I wanna
do that. So,
I convinced my grandma to,
like, see if I could sign up. And,
I

(03:58):
pretty quickly got signed up, and that was
pretty cool.
Okay.
That's
well, I would consider a little odd for
a kid your age to pick up classical
music, but it's wonderful. Some Well, yeah. I
think that's great, man. It is.
And, Blake, what about you?
For me,
my dad was beatboxing

(04:21):
for me. Wait. Wait. What what was that?
My dad was always beatboxing? Beatboxing
when I was growing up, so I kinda,
like, got some
I got some, like I don't know. He,
like,
figured out how to make me, musical by
beatboxing
and, like, teaching me beats and stuff.
And, yeah, he always played, like, he always

(04:42):
played a lot of
interesting, like, rock,
other other genres. A lot of them, I
can't name right now.
Or that we would even know some of
us here, maybe. Yeah. You might. But I
have to get a quick explanation of beatboxing.
Yes. Oh. Which is You must make beats
with your mouth. I don't really know. I

(05:03):
that's
Can you give us a difference? It's like
the scat. Remember the old scat? Yes. Okay.
Something like that? Yeah. Where you'd I I
get that. That's cool. Yeah. That goes way
back.
I was gonna ask you what that was
as well, but
repeat me to it. That's okay.
That's okay.
Yeah. Well,
so both of you, it's not just one

(05:24):
genre of music you guys like where
you cover the
the spectrum. Right?
Yeah.
Do you have a your favorite, Jude, though,
is it classical? Yeah. My favorite is classical
by far. Wow. It's like all I listen
to. But,
I know some pop songs on the violin
and stuff and a few rock songs, but,

(05:45):
I'm not very good at them, so I
kinda stick to classical.
Yeah. I I I I think of, rock
rocks well, different like Jethro Tull, the group
Yeah. Playing the flute. He incorporates that flute
and great
flute, in my opinion.
And yeah. I'm trying to think if there's,
violins and rock and roll. Well, there's plenty

(06:06):
in my favorite bluegrass. Yeah.
One of our favorite groups is the black
violin, which is two African American classically trained
violinists, but then they come to
their performances. Go ahead. They they play hip
hop, not rock.
Yeah. We have to delineate that. Yeah. Okay.
Now what are they the black what do

(06:27):
you call them? Black violin. Black violin. Never
heard. But We've seen them twice in Austin
in concert
now. That's right.
I know, Jude, you have a background. Well,
that's where you're from. Yeah. Austin, Texan. One
of Texan. Austin, Texas.
Kind of one of the music capitals of
The United States now, I think. Yeah. I
live in Austin, but, I was born in

(06:48):
Washington.
Okay.
Okay.
And they spend summers in Brookings. Yeah. Yeah.
You're he's here every summer? Yeah. Right on,
man. And, Blake, you were born and raised
here in Brooklyn? Yes.
I lived here my whole life.
Okay.
Kind of a rarity, I think, in this
town.

(07:08):
I mean, I I know I'm an addict.
I've only been here about seven years, but
it's a wonderful place. But and I've never
been to Austin, but I hear Austin's a
pretty cool place to be. Probably not very
cool this time of year, though. Right? No.
No. It's a good place. Cool cool as
in hip, Ray.
Remember the That's why that's why I come
here during the summers. Oh, yeah. Good. And
also just because, honestly,

(07:30):
no offense to Austin, but I kinda like
Brookings more. Really? Like, I like I just
like the beach and the ocean and Oh,
man. Who doesn't?
Yeah. For those of us who have been
to Texas, we may understand that a lot
better.
Well, like I said, I I the only
place I've been is San Antonio, but, I
don't know. I've heard a lot of good
about Austin.
So

(07:52):
and, also,
well, both of you have your own music
you plan on
giving us a sample for today, which is
awesome.
And we can start out by right now.
Jude, would you like
to do a little piece
okay. For us? I can. Okay.

(08:14):
Live entertainment here, KCIW.
Okay. Should I play the sites? Sure. Should
I? Okay. Yeah.
I'll play the sites file and can show
it on number two.

(11:06):
Awesome. Wow. Awesome
job.
Wow.
Well, now
so, Blake, you are I understand you also.
Along with your you do the computer
music, which is great, but you also play
percussion
Percussion. And piano. Piano. And I used to
play trombone. I

(11:27):
still might have that skill. I don't know.
But we'll see. We do. Yeah. Maybe. I
would guess.
Yeah.
That's great, man. And then so you're in
the now you're not high neither one of
you are high school yet? No. No. I'm
going into eighth grade. So I'm also going
into eighth grade. Oh, okay. Same age group.
But you're in this your school has a

(11:49):
band?
Yes. It does have a band. Okay. And
you're in the band? Yes. I I am.
And I've actually
since elementary school, I say
fourth grade. Right? Fourth grade,
I did band fourth grade. I did band
in fifth grade, and I wasn't able to
do it in sixth grade because
I went to a separate school for that

(12:10):
year.
But I when I came back, rent back
into band. Wow. Do you have any,
like, local bands where we we used to
call garage
garage bands?
It's where some of the kids would put
bands together.
I was invited to one by my buddy
Theron,

(12:30):
Theron Fox, but
I haven't really done anything with him. I've
given him some of my music to add
vocals to, but we haven't really gotten further
than that.
So there are no,
garage bands in this town?
Not that I know of. I'm sure there
is, but I don't know very much about,
like, all that. I'm sure there is, though.

(12:53):
Now Ray's hearkening back to a time long
ago.
Mhmm. Really? Well, that's
the No. No. They I don't I maybe
they do still have garage. The garage bands
that you're talking about, I mean, we're coming
from, you know, guitar, drums, bass Yes. Pretty
much it. I know that they're a garage
band still in Austin.
Yeah. Oh, I imagine

(13:13):
so.
But yeah. So in the garage band that
you're talking about, I I'm guessing percussion,
drums is what you're
you're talking about playing?
So it's weird. It's like,
I can I suck at the drums? I'm
very bad at the drums. But
but there's, like, certain instruments that are called
percussion instruments even though they wouldn't, like, come

(13:35):
off as percussion. Like
Like, so The piano is a percussion instrument
because,
it's hammers hitting on strings. Okay. And,
Not xylophone. Am I The xylophone yeah. The
xylophone is percussion.
I can play the bass drum. That's very
pretty
easy for me. I'm learning the snare. But,

(13:55):
yeah Oh, okay. Play a little bit of
percussion. Okay. You're in there. So there are
still garage bands. Good. Glad to hear that.
I was in one called the Nomads. Anybody
remember those guys? No. No. I've to you.
I don't know. Well, I was a fan,
but I didn't get that far. But I
have to go back to your Blake, you
were talking about your dad being an influence.
Oh, yeah. Baby influence. My dad was to

(14:16):
the first I've talked about this on other
shows. The first music I remember as a
kid, probably four or five,
my dad was a country music fan. I'm
talking about very old Johnny Cash,
Furlan Husky,
Patsy Clay. Anyway, I remember that music. Now
the older I got, that was not supposed
to be too cool, but, boy, when I

(14:37):
rediscovered it again back in my, probably, twenties
and thirties, that was my influence also, along
with the Beatles. I I do play play
guitar since about 10. My skills haven't really
advanced since about 10,
But I still play for myself, so that's
okay. I always had a big stage fright
issue.
I got on stage one time in high
school, and I think everybody thought I was

(14:58):
having a stroke. I was just I couldn't
move. But, anyway, so you guys play in
front of people, though? Yeah. I do the
farmers' markets and, open my night at Chetco
Brewery.
And and I miss. But I do play
other instruments other than violin. I play bass
guitar, and I play a very small amount
of piano.
Oh, wow. Okay.

(15:19):
My only my only one I tried differently
was, back to the Bluegrass music, was the
five string banjo. I had to gave that
up because I couldn't,
do it like Earl Scruggs, I suppose.
But, anyway, so Blake, you have some music,
I believe, that you'd like
to show us your own create creation.
Yeah. Very different than what he's playing. That's

(15:41):
okay. Different difference is good. Yeah. And some
of this some of this I recorded live
of me playing, and then I put it
on here. But this is all something that
I, composed. Like, I'm not gonna be playing
right now. You can just hear the music
that I Right. Right. Okay. You want me
to play it? Oh, please. Alright.

(18:17):
Awesome.
Good stuff, man. It's very good. Good stuff.
So That was really good. Thank you. So
are you playing a computer like a keyboard
then to to create those? Well, sometimes. So,
you can use the keys on the keyboard
to, like, I'm
I have a certain synth that, like, plays
an arpeggio. So if I were to play
one note, it would just play that single

(18:37):
note. But if I do two notes,
it plays them boom boom boom boom. And
then if you play three or four, you
can get that cool sound.
And, basically, for this one,
let me check. I was playing
I basically found a really cool chord that
I thought was, like, awesome, and,
I played it out. So I have down

(19:00):
my the bottom note I have on here
is
a f, and then I go
and then,
try to find the next one.
Wow. And then
So the the wavering or, the different levels,

(19:23):
you are you doing that, or is that
something you programmed into it? Or
on so,
like, what do you mean by that? I'm
not sure what I mean. I I guess
it'd be I guess it's a melody.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I am so I
did figure out that chord by myself.
And then,
basically, what I did was I,
what you can do in this program is

(19:45):
you
tap in, like, you click down.
It's hard to explain. You click and it
creates a note, and you can stretch that
note to make it longer or or shorten
it to make it shorter. And, basically, what
I have here is,
those that sound that I just played for
you playing for four beats. So one, two,
three, four. And then I repeat that twice,

(20:06):
so I go
one, two, three, four like that.
And then I switched up the chord just
a little bit. I just moved a couple
notes to get,
the
So
have you performed this kind of stuff in
front of your friends at school and that
type of thing? Yes. I actually performed this

(20:28):
at the,
the art walk just not too long ago
at semi aquatic.
Okay. Yeah. Right on. Yeah. K. And speaking
of performances,
Jude, I know you've had a couple of,
big big performances in your past, in your
short past.
Yeah.
Some of my coolest ones, we did a

(20:49):
tour in The UK,
a violin tour in The UK. Wow.
And I've also had some pretty cool ones
in Austin, but my favorite is definitely playing
at the Chetco brewery. It's really fun every
single time I do. Our fa our famous,
Jay, right here in Brooklyn. Night. We can
we can get a shout out to, every
Thursday from five to about 07:30. There's an

(21:12):
open mic at the Checo Brewery.
And,
anybody who can play something or sing something
will get up and and perform.
And that sounds like it would be horrible,
but it's not. I think everybody that plays
there is at least good. Yeah. And it
goes from there up. There's some excellent, excellent
people. So and I think that's quite a

(21:32):
a comment from a young man who's been
on tour in The UK and has played
in Saint Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh I think
gosh. With the songbird strings of Texas to
say, oh, my favorite place is Chetzel
Brewery. Yeah. An old body shop. That's really
cool. The acoustics are just amazing.
Yeah.
The the biggest place that I've played, though,

(21:53):
is definitely,
what's the name of the
the place where black violin always plays?
Oh, it's the
Zach no. It's not the Zach. It's Not
the Zach. Oh, I can't remember right now,
but it's one of the big performance halls
in Yeah.
The Long Center. Yeah. At the Long Center.
I've played it in the Long Center. I
think Oh, in Austin. Yeah. Okay. In Austin,

(22:14):
I played it in the Long Center twice,
which is, like, a pretty big thing. But,
still, I just love listening to the other
musicians at Checo Brewery and also how welcoming
they are.
Yeah. Everyone's so nice and welcoming, and it's
really fun. It's a great place. I've been
there a few times myself. Thanks to And
and I always, I've seen junk me into
it. I've seen him there a couple of

(22:36):
times, and he literally brings down the house.
There
a lot of his polite applause,
and every now and then, there's somebody that
literally brings down the house. Right on. He's
certainly one of them.
Blake, you have to start thinking about coming
to the Chetco brewery and bringing bringing your
stuff. Seriously. Oh, yeah. Open mic night. I

(22:56):
have performed. Also,
I did a lot of piano recitals too.
So I
Oh.
I learned a lot of piano from
I had two different two or three different
teachers.
One of them,
was I think she's
in college now.
One of them is,

(23:17):
up in the I forget her name. She's
up in the hills. And then the other
one, you might know his name. His name
is Gabriel.
He,
he's very he's very nice. He's He's very
cool, and he's a great musician. Yeah.
The other thing about coming to the,
the open mic would everybody there, all the
musicians are very cooperative with each other. You'd
probably,

(23:38):
pick up some pointers, learn some things there.
Well, I saw
at the last,
open mic night, Jude and was, playing a
little bit with Shirley.
Shirley Hyatt.
And, you guys were kinda going back and
forth with some instruction
and what how you do it, how she
does it. Yeah. She's really cool. She was
helping me quite a bit. Shirley's a great,

(23:59):
great lady. I don't think I've ever heard
her referred to as really cool, though.
I don't know.
We'll talk about it. I think she is.
I also think she is. We also when
I was there last time, it was my
grandpa's birthday. So it was really fun because
I played him happy birthday while I was
there. Oh, how cool. And, that
and it was really fun. And it was
the last song at open mic, and it

(24:20):
was it was just really cool. Oh, wow.
That's really that is really cool.
By the way, you can people that are
listening
text in, please. (541)
661-4098.
And and both of you guys, which is
what I'm gathering is you've got tons of
family and friend support.
Yes. A lot. And that's pretty important.

(24:44):
That's pretty important.
So,
and, you know, I'm gonna my general about
music,
again, I remember my my dad's stuff, and
it kinda got me to playing guitar.
And music, I think, whether you're performing an
instrument, singing, or maybe just listening, like we're
doing here,

(25:04):
it kind of enhances your whole brain, your
whole spirit, your soul to me.
And I I I I'm guessing you guys
feel that same thing.
It can definitely affect your mood greatly. Oh,
yeah. Speaking of moods, so we're running the
film workshop. And one of the things that's
really important in film is the music because

(25:24):
it sets the mood.
And now coming back to music rights, one
of the problems for a lot of independent
filmmakers is the cost of music rights if
you wanna play something that's
not in the public domain. So it opens
the doors
to musicians who can compose or play sheet
music. Because now you can take sheet music

(25:45):
that's in the public domain,
and you do your own recording for a
film production,
or you compose your own music
for a film production. And both of those
things are a real asset to an independent
film crew. Boy, more doors opening. More doors
opening.
And and and both these young gentlemen have

(26:06):
composed their own stuff,
obviously,
which is cool. You know, you mentioned something
about music enhancing.
I I couple memories came to me, from
movies. I remember one of my wife and
I's favorite was
Anne of Green Gables movie that was on
PBS many years ago.
But the music throughout that was it was

(26:27):
almost it was so beautiful. It almost teared
both of the both of us up. And
then it had pic
pictures.
Background was Victor not Victoria, Canada.
One of the islands. I can't think of
the name of it now.
But, anyway, it just it set the mood
for that whole thing, and it was just
really, really beautiful stuff.
You know?

(26:48):
And for an old, quote, rock and roller,
I was like, wow. This is this is
different and nice.
But if it's a horror film, you've got
those minor keys and chords in the background,
right, that's really creepy, or you've got a
sad movie you need this kind of slow,
stab Yeah. It's kinda funny you should mention
horror films because I'm

(27:09):
I I'm kind of interested in the old,
gothic,
horror films about Legoshi and Annette and
both Dracula and Frankenstein had virtually no music
at all in them other than the the
theme song.
And, the reason for that is they didn't
know how to incorporate it.
And, they were just starting talkies. And

(27:31):
and in the,
silent film, they had piano players or whatever
accompanying, but they weren't sure how to how
to fit the music in. So there was
Now it's almost impossible
to, you know Oh, yeah. Imagine a film
without the music. Yeah. Right? Oh, yeah. And
but we don't pay attention much to the
music. Right. It just sets the tone.
We do have a text, and thank you.

(27:53):
And this text says
from Daniel and Mandy Gunderson,
Blake's aunt and uncle are listening in from
North Dakota.
Wow. Great to hear how talented Blake is.
He has a bright future ahead of him.
How how wonderful is that?
That's that's great. Thank you.
That's crazy. You guys are listening all the

(28:14):
way from North Dakota.
Wow. We turned the volume up quite a
bit and it was
So thank you for that. Thank you for
that.
But, yeah, back like I said, music to
me
I hear I'm glad that the schools here
in in well, I imagine Austin music is
always a big deal, but some of the

(28:35):
schools around the country seem to have been
lessening
the music programs, art programs.
I just think it's the wrong direction.
Yeah. I really do.
Jude, can you speak a little bit to
your performing arts program in Austin? Oh, yeah.
I go to,

(28:57):
Lamar Middle School in Austin, and,
I'm in,
their magnet program, which is, like, the fine
arts academy.
So I have to, like, take a music
major or a art major, and so I
do orchestra there.
And one of the fun parts of it
is, like, you get to play with the
band sometimes. And yeah.

(29:19):
Oh, yeah. And back to, yeah, performing.
Now you've both performed solo by yourself
and with other people and bands. What do
you prefer?
By yourself, or do you prefer with being
with other pea or does it really matter?
I let oh, you can go first.

(29:40):
I prefer
definitely playing
with multiple people.
I actually did something recently. You might know
Luke Mathison.
He has a little place up the river,
and, he was having a birthday party, and,
two of his friends,
came in. He has, like, a studio, like,
a music studio, and then one of them

(30:00):
played drums, one of them played guitar, and
I played,
the keyboard, but we had the keyboard amped
up like a guitar. So I could play
I could, like, do, riffs like a guitar,
and it was so cool. That does sound
cool. And I wasn't nervous at all because
I knew people would be wouldn't just be
focusing on me. They would be, like, thinking
about other people too. Right. That's that that

(30:21):
is cool.
I think it's amazing the,
the,
variety of sounds you can get from a
keyboard. You can become a guitar player or
probably a violin or anything. You know? Yeah.
For me,
I like both of them,
because, like, I like them in different ways.
I like the pieces that I get to

(30:41):
perform by myself, but I like,
playing with other people more,
which,
at school, I started a chamber group that
plays during homeroom. So, like, we'll go to
one of the music practice rooms, and we'll
all practice a song together.
And it's pretty good. It's helped for a
lot of auditions and stuff. Yeah.
So we'll
practice those together and stuff. And it's really

(31:03):
helped, and it's pretty cool. And it's one
of my favorite parts of playing. That's that's
great. And, Rick, you mentioned that a lot
of schools, the music programs
don't get enough support or they cut them
because they were
focused on academics.
And
that creative aspect is so important. This is
the kind of thing that music is one

(31:24):
of those things that you can take with
you your whole life.
It really makes a difference in how you're
It must promote creativity too. Promotes creativity.
It,
it promotes math. It promotes engineering.
And that's very true. I did do a
little research,
and it's like music

(31:44):
kids, people that are interested in music and
the other arts generally do a lot better
scholastically.
Mhmm. You know? And I just like to
give a shout out to the partnership for
performing arts
and Nick Rail
because they are bringing in the resources to
help our local music programs, whether it's mostly,

(32:04):
it's instruments. Instruments are expensive.
So if you don't have a family that
can afford the cost of an instrument and
private lessons, it makes it difficult.
But
Nick Rail and the partnership for performing arts
are really they're bringing in instruments. They're helping
with uniforms, whatever it takes to help the

(32:26):
music programs in the local school. You know,
I never it's something I didn't think about.
Now back when
I my sister was in a band, and
the school I came from down or, it's
Lummis, California.
But it was always known for its band
more than the football team that I was
on, but but that's okay.
But and they went, touring. They did a
tour in Austria and parts of Europe. And

(32:48):
that what an experience for young people. Mhmm.
You know?
But, again, back then, it was it seemed
to be a lot easier to get the
instruments for the children or the or the
kids or the uniforms. Now that's a little
more difficult then. Mhmm. What how do they
do they depend on,
people donating donating either money

(33:09):
or instruments that they don't
use anymore? I think donations of instruments
are key. Key. Yes. And scholarships for private
lessons.
Okay.
Okay. Yeah. So anybody listening, if you have
an old guitar
or trombone or whatever's hanging around, man, they
could use them. They could use that.

(33:30):
And I know Nick Griel is interested
in,
reconditioning
instruments that are donated so that they're in
good shape Right. For the kids. Right? So
you've got a saxophone that's 50 years old,
a little bit of reconditioning can make that
instrument still
a really viable
Yeah. Instrument for you. Right.

(33:53):
And you could play Little Richard music, Kevvie
La Saxe ball. Ray's gonna get that in
there whether you guys like it or not.
But but Little Richard's a cool Hey. John
was playing Ray Charles at one of the
open mics recently, and that was really fun.
John has an incredible variety of music he
played. My Uh-huh. Is this the ukulele? One
that's safe. Is that Yes. But he wasn't
on the ukulele.

(34:14):
Okay. Well He even had the jacket, and
he had he had, I think, five women
behind him as chorus. It was it was
top notch. It was They're very cool. Those
ukulele
players get all the pretty women.
Kinda wish I'd started that.
But his group was really cool.
Yeah. When he played with everyone, it's super

(34:36):
cool. And he even had, like, an outfit.
Oh,
when,
the person that you guys are talking about,
when he did that performance and he got
a bunch of people to join him, it
was really cool. He
he's pretty good at that. Mhmm. He He
also have, like, a
presence.
A teenage presence, if you will. One of
the friendlier people there. Yeah.
That's great, man.

(34:57):
And he can just him and and and
a ukulele,
you would not believe the the sound he
gets out of that. He he's played,
Chicago songs, which is a whole band of
brass,
and and it works. He does it.
I don't know if he's ever done any
Jimi Hendrix. I think I'll have to ask
him about it. You'll have to ask him

(35:18):
if he does Jimi Hendrix. Because you're because
I think if he does Ray Charles, he
might be able Yeah.
I I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
Wow.
Well, you know what? I think both of
you have another song or maybe two that
you would like to play,
Jude.
Would you like to

(35:38):
entertain the,
listeners out there again? And, again, listeners, please
text in (541)
661-4098.
Go ahead, Jude. Give us your your stuff.
It'll
I kinda gotta do improv because my other
songs won't work. That's okay. Yeah. Improv is
good.

(37:26):
Awesome. Very Awesome. Now
Ray calls me the operator standing by. We've
got some bunch of texts that I'm having
trouble pulling up, but I'm gonna try to
get to these. So,
well, I have one here, and it said,
this question is for Jude. Who? Are the
music programs competitive in Austin,
and did you have
an audition to get into your school?

(37:48):
So, yeah, they are pretty competitive.
The year that I was getting in, they
didn't really have a limit to how many
students could get in, but you did still
have to, like, audition and everything.
The audition
was kinda difficult, and it depended for new
students, it depended if you what orchestra you
got into
and or what band you got into or
the art program you got into.

(38:09):
But for
for students who come back,
to the school for a second or third
year,
there's still an audition to get back into
the orchestra you wanna get into. So, like,
to get into the top orchestra, you have
to do an audition and stuff.
And but you don't have to reaudition to

(38:30):
the school every year, which is nice.
Okay. Also,
it's the part that's really competitive is there's
this thing called region where,
I'm pretty sure Austin's part of Region 18.
And so what you do is,
you
basically
get some sheet music at, like, the end

(38:50):
of the school year.
And,
for the start of the next school year,
you have to have it really good because
then there's an audition to see if you
get into the Regent Orchestra for the start
of the year.
And they had 33 was it 33 spots
for violinists?
Something like that.
Yeah. I think it was 33.
I didn't do very good on my audition

(39:12):
last year, and I got, like, thirty second.
But,
this year, I'm I'm doing a lot better
now. Awesome. That's cool. Also, it's 33 out
of all of Austin. So
so, I mean, I didn't do very good
for people in it, but it was still
pretty good.
But At 12 years old, are we talking?
Right? Or He just turned turk turned 30.

(39:34):
30. Oh, I well, you're that you want
the erect Big stuff right there. I get
it. Okay.
Like, I got a lot better since then,
and, my goal is to get either, like,
first or third. Good for you, man. And
I think it's actually doable because most of
the people who got in were in eighth
grade, so there were only, like, two seventh
graders.
Okay.

(39:55):
Alright.
Now the text line
is blowing up.
So let me let me get through here.
And, if I'm missing yours, I'm sorry. I'll
do my best. Okay. So here's one for
Blake.
It says, Blake, are you able to play
your compositions on the piano
from grandma Lori?
Oh, from my grandma. Or from grandma Lori.

(40:18):
Hello, grandma Lori.
Yes.
If I were to put in the time
to learn them,
which wouldn't be too hard because I already
pretty much have the sheet music in front
of me, like, I just have to pull
it up.
Yeah. I probably can do that. Alright.
Now and I would be remiss to also

(40:38):
sell to say the other text. Tell Blake
grandpa is listening too from North Dakota.
Hi. Hello, grandpa.
Everyone's listening. Well, this is the first this
is the biggest text line Yeah. Moment we've
had. Now there's there's more here.
Hold on.
Blake's

(41:00):
aunt and uncle Dan listening in from Crystal
Beach, Texas.
Wow. We are very proud of Blake. He
is very talented.
Okay. So we do local radio here in
Brookings. Hello.
This is awesome. Radio right now.
And
let's keep on going because they're coming in.
This is from our good friend, Billy Ruth

(41:21):
fur Furicci.
Oh, hi. It's somebody who all in there.
Yeah. So Billy. From KCIW.
And my my frequent lunch date. Is that
correct, Billy? Of course, it is. So love
the show today, especially the original music.
My grand nephew has his original music on
my series,
Angelita

(41:41):
in Outer Space. I think I got this
right, which you can get on your podcast,
Outer Space. Yeah. That's from Billy. Hi, Billy.
Thank you. Thank you for listening.
Wow. Okay.
So
and,
well, we're kind of approaching the end. So,
Blake, I think you have another
composition. Yes. I have more. Okay.

(42:01):
This one is a lot different than the
first one.
So the first one was just, basic electronic
music.
This one is kinda like electronic
trap hip hop or whatever you wanna call
it,
but I was just trying to make a
beat because my friend my friend
Bodhi inspired me to make this because he

(42:21):
likes this kind of
Ah, a friend
inspiration from a friend. You can't get, too
much better than that.
Okay, man. Alright. Give us a shout here,
or shout off there now. It's like Right.
Okay.

(45:32):
Awesome.
That was an h, I guess. No. I
I know that y'all can't see us because
we're on the radio, but I had a
cool little scene here that I witnessed.
Jude over there was kinda bouncing to that
beat, man. The classic violinist to an electronic
art.
It's all it's all good. And I got
a great text. I'm still a little behind

(45:52):
on the text, but this one for both
of you gentlemen.
Where do you hope your music will take
you over the next ten years?
And is there a goal or a dream
performance you'd love to achieve?
So
who first think about it? Whatever
Jude. So,

(46:12):
one of
one of the things that I
kinda wanna do,
I've kinda, for the last, like, couple years,
wanted to be
a soloist,
which is, like, the
the, like Top of the heap or something?
Yeah. Like, the best violinists
are, like, mostly soloists. There's also some who

(46:33):
are, like,
like, in the orchestra. But
the soloists are the people who, like, go
to the orchestra, and the orchestra plays to
them. So, like, they'll be playing a violin
concerto, and the orchestra will be playing the
backing
to the Yeah. I'm I I think of
one that pops to my mind now, but
Ishtar Perlman? Yeah. Itzhak Perlman.

(46:56):
One that I know. There was a concert
he played in Austin not too long ago.
Where else? Pianist, but,
not with the orchestra, sadly. I would've I
wanted to go, but I was already going
to a concert with my favorite soloist, Hilary
Hahn. Okay.
So one of my dream I have, like,
two
or three that, I've always wanted to do

(47:16):
on the violin, and,
one is to meet,
Hilary Hahn. Hilary Hahn. And maybe play violin
with Hilary Hahn. And then the other one
is to meet two set, which is a
violin YouTube channel and, like, comedy
about violin.
They're really awesome and, like, huge shout out
to them. I'm a big comedy fan, so

(47:37):
I would love to check that out. I
like to to, you know, get the two
together. That's awesome. Two set violin. And then
Okay.
The other one is to be a soloist.
Okay. So Okay. Yeah. So, mister Blake, what
do what do you think on that question?
I'd say I definitely want to be,
performing
live,

(47:59):
like, at a concert. That's my ultimate goal
is to have, like, vocals,
perform live, produce music for
big artists, whatnot.
I would really like to meet, like, I
don't know, some people such as, one of
my favorite
artists is,
Gorillaz,
with a z.

(48:20):
Oh, another that I like is I'm sure
you might have heard of them, Daft Punk.
Maybe you've heard of those guys.
In my seventies, no. I haven't. But that's
okay. That's I'm always open to new you
guys are both. You got great stuff.
But the other one was what? Gorillaz, you
said? Or Gorillaz with a z. With a

(48:41):
z. And,
another one,
there's this,
producer, rapper, whatever his whatever you wanna call
him. His name is M of Doom, and
he makes basically, he takes samples and, like,
reconstructs them into a whole different beat. It's
so cool.
But, yeah, I'd like to meet either or,
actually, I just remembered that M of Doom

(49:01):
is dead, so I can't mean that.
Well,
that'll have to be in another lifetime,
I suppose. But Yeah. Well, that's great. I
mean, you guys look. It this is inspiring,
to me to see the exuberance, the youthful,
the the youthful. It's just great. And you
guys both are great talents.
And, man, we are we're happy to have

(49:21):
you guys here today Thank you. For sure.
Now,
a couple more texts that, the operator standing
by has not read. Let me see.
Oh, and I got that one. Hold on.
I'm, probably needs help on this phone. Let
me see here.
Okay. Oh, here we go.
Blake, how many years have you been doing

(49:44):
this? Great grandma Gail.
Oh, hello.
Where where is great grandma Gail located?
Where is he?
Southern California. Southern Cal. Man, we're just blasting
all over the country today. Thank you. Okay,
Blake. Go ahead.
I would I think well, okay. So
I have been

(50:05):
loving music my whole life.
Like, I mean, since
till since I had a working brain.
We're working on ours, Ray. Yeah. Are we
are working? Goes the other way, I bet
you said. So
use it while you can. You got it.
Go ahead, Blake. Well and I have been
making music for
my dad had this app called Beatwave. I

(50:26):
don't remember probably, like let me think.
I was probably six or seven,
maybe.
Yep. Do you think six or seven?
Yeah. I'd I'd say six or seven, I
would have been starting making music. Although, at
that age, I was just tapping random buttons
on the on my dad's phone, and it

(50:48):
was making
really garbage.
But good garbage.
Not even good. I wouldn't even say that.
That that sounds like your name of a
song. We didn't accidentally call Japan or anything.
No. No.
No.
I used to have a a telephone that,
you you had presets where you could dial,
you know,
one button, then you've called so and so.

(51:09):
And my cat made a lot of phone
calls to relatives in Florida.
Good technology.
Average cat.
Hey, man. That's just it's all good stuff.
Boy, you guys I I mean, I see
a wonderful future for for both of you
and mom and grandma and all of us

(51:31):
who are hopefully beyond the receiving end of
a lot of that stuff. That's just wonderful,
man. Would you like to introduce your mother?
I don't think we've been Oh, gosh. Oh,
yeah. This is my mom.
She can you might get right do I
need to turn this free
here? Hello. Thank you for including me. It's
been a pleasure to be here and listen
to both of these guys. And it's it's
fun. It's fun.

(51:52):
And, hopefully, both of you guys will be
back very soon. Now we still have we
still have a few minutes left. Can we
can we just do a shout out though
before for the Wild Rivers film workshop? Oh,
please. Our second year.
We have lots of sports activities in the
summer
and swimming lessons and lifeguarding,
but we don't have as many opportunities

(52:14):
for our creative youth, our performing arts youth.
And so,
the hope is that we will be able
to continue to provide this next year and
the year after
for teens who are creative and want to
get a taste of filmmaking. Yeah. And and
and two of the best examples here. Yeah.
That is now both of you guys are

(52:35):
involved
in the Wild Rivers
Film workshop. Film workshop right now.
So and and I have to real quick.
So you did mention athletics.
Are either one of you also involved in
any school athletics?
Or
yes. Blake is shaking it pretty vigorously.
Shaking, he said. Yes.

(52:56):
I'm starting archery.
Oh. Wow. So that's that's cool. Yeah. I'm
starting archery this,
next year.
Okay. In eighth grader. Okay. Because, a lot
of my friends in orchestra do archery. I'll
be darned, man.
Interesting.
I do check and field and cross country
and

(53:17):
soccer,
and I surf with my dad.
Oh, perfect.
Out there with the great white sharks. How
was the thing you were gonna say? Right?
I do swimming. I've always wanted It's all
surfing. Do.
Swim too. Okay. The great whites don't plan
on eating you. They just wanna bite into
your leg,
and then they realize that they eat the
mistakes. But Yeah.

(53:38):
I don't or once you touch that ocean,
you're part of the food chain. My favorite
I love the ocean, but go ahead. My
favorite sport I currently do, it it's, I
guess, considered an extreme sport. It doesn't feel
like it would count, though, and it's scuba
diving.
Oh, I actually did that myself when I'm
in the in
the beautiful tropics with the coral reef. But

(53:58):
over there, you can see a long way.
Over here, it's a little too murky. Yeah.
They can sneak up on you. Which But
that's great. And so
now where do you go back to in
Austin to scuba dive?
Lakes. I haven't actually been diving in Austin.
Oh, okay.
I think,
my dad's actually probably scuba diving right now.

(54:18):
Really?
He's in
Honduras.
Oh.
Roatan.
Is he in Roatan? I think that's where
they're diving. Okay. Oh, okay. So then he
might be in Roatan right now.
That's a it's a wonderful and Ray has
scuba dived Yes. Also. I love scuba diving.
It's a wonderful experience. Yeah. It is.
I read, the silent world,

(54:40):
the Jacques Cousteau book when I was, I
don't know, 10 or whatever. I'm gonna do
that someday. And about the time I got
to be 55 or so, I actually did
it.
I lived in Alaska where it's not not
not I wouldn't say it's top scuba diving
territory.
Yeah. You would think so, but no.
Actually, the the diving there is very good,

(55:00):
but it's deep and it's cold. And It
sounds like a very fun time to be
a popsicle.
Yeah.
Have you ever have you ever had a
layer of ice from around you?
You probably had the chip out like the
ice pitcher. No. I I didn't go down
in the Oh, I I didn't I didn't
do that.
I I was I my

(55:22):
I limited my my diving to, on the
Great Barrier Reef, and there's some pretty good
places in The Keys. There's not a lot
in The States anymore. A lot of the
Yeah. Reefs in the water has just been
really messed up. Yeah. Anyway
Well, I mean, god, athletics too, music,
scholastics.
You're you're covering it all.

(55:43):
And,
you know, I think that's just that's fantastic
for both of you guys. And I'd like
to mention too that Wild Rivers has got
some pretty neat, merch. You may have seen
people
wandering around with sweatshirts and such and
Why we hating right over there. Exactly. Yeah.
They're barely wearing something. Amazing. Maybe we could
find out where we should get some of
that. Actually, we have multiple people in this

(56:05):
room wearing Wild Rivers merch. Yeah.
You can get Wild Rivers film festival merchandise
during the film festival, August
'17,
when we will be,
we'll have a four days of films of
four different screens. And you get some cool
you can get your film passes

(56:26):
online now.
Already have mine
for the my first time to this year.
We have a variety of passes from excited.
$20 day passes to $50
weekend passes to to the $150
VIP passes. I would recommend
those $150
passes because they include a few extra perks

(56:47):
that the others don't have. So happy hours,
after parties, award ceremonies, and lots of opportunities
to talk with the filmmakers when they're here
intact. And and you get to walk around
wearing a badge that says VIP. Yep. How
often do we get to do that? Also,
you get some merch if you go to
the workshop too. You get a workshop shirt,
which is pretty cool. Oh, the film workshop.
Yeah.

(57:07):
Well, exciting times here in Brookings,
Oregon.
Boy, we're down to
less than two minutes. I wanna thank everybody,
especially our two young guests,
grandma and mom,
along with their with our two young guests.
It's been great. You guys,
and

(57:27):
we've set the world record for texts,
coming in today. So Wow. We'll have to,
Not in a not in a quantity, but
distance.
Right. Yeah. Okay. North Dakota. North yeah. North
Dakota, Texas.
We've had some pretty some pretty crazy spots.
Been great, man. The one from my grandpa
was probably all the way up in the,

(57:49):
very right corner of North Dakota. So, basically,
Canada.
Wow. And we had one from Texas. He
had Yeah. Have you have you been to
your grandpa's in North Dakota? Yes. I go.
Oh my. We go almost every year. Oh,
wow. Yeah. That's cool. Have you been to,
I think, your grandma in Texas?
Oh, my yeah. It's my aunt. Yes. I
have, I think, once.

(58:10):
And I had Whataburger, and it was a
big mistake.
A What
a Whataburger?
Whataburger is a is a is a chain
there. And Okay. Yeah. Okay. Anyway,
alright, you guys. Thank thank everybody
for being here. Wonderful show. We are getting
down to
time to go. So,

(58:31):
again, it was a great show for we
had some youthful experience that we desperately need
here.
So
thank you all. Thanks for the text, and
you're listening to KCIWLP