Imagination Off the Charts: Jacob Collier comes to MIT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2017
- This documentary film won the New England Emmy in the Arts and Entertainment category.
Jacob Collier is a Grammy Award winning artist based in London. During the Fall of 2016 Jacob performed with musicians from MIT, Berklee College of Music, New England Conservatory, Boston Arts Academy, and UNH. This film features rehearsals, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews with the artists, and live performance shot with 8 cameras.
* credits correction: Guilia Duchi should read Giulia Duchi
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I am so happy I was introduced to Jacob’s musical mind! Extraordinaire!!!
It is as if the music is the air he breathes.
Total chills! Hideaway is one of the greatest pieces of contemporary music I've ever heard: filled with thrilling harmonic and rhythmic surprises and details, yet always making sense and staying heart-felt as it evolves. And Jacob Collier? True genius. Stay long enough to hear him talk about how his mother introduced him to Music!
Just Amazing!
This brought me to tears
I was so distracted by the music and marveling at the level of creativity that I wish I had, it never even crossed my mind to question why one of the vocalists was wearing a cow costume.
whahahahah That came to my Mind lol
Because in his real music video when he plays the cow bell he wears a cow shirt.
BBrown4 - A couple of people in the chorus are wearing goofy hats with costumes, and others are just very colorful or patterned in their clothing, like Collier, with his signature vibrant colors and wild clothing, all of which makes a great contrast to the black-clad instrumentalists. But, yes, the music is so creative and captivating that you could almost miss all that.
How lucky I wasn't having a sip of coffee when I read that. lol
I was triggered by the outfits... I was like 'what's wrong with a fucking tie, it's about the music not your sore-thumb-sticking-out narcissism!'
But really I'm just super duper jelly... of everyone in this video...
from this video i learned 3 things:
1. jacob is a musical genius
2. he's a really cool person too
3. being a drummer in his band looks harder that whiplash
Even clapping in this rhythm is itself complicated
? your ears are broken this is 100% terrible. Take it from someone who passed on Julliard
@@davidwilks4123 *uuu i passed on Julliard, people will definitely respect me more when i swing my Dick around. Hahaha this guy
@@davidwilks4123 Lol haters are going to hate, re-examine your opinions if none agrees with you.
@@seth9466 Why would I want to agree with poor uneducated Trumper insurrectionist anti-vax RepubliQan Nazis?
This is what is meant by Children will be sent to this world w their memories of heaven intact. Their Memories will not be erased. I believe thats where his genius comes from, music from the heavens. His talent and music is mind blowing….1 in a trillion kind of tAlent. Thank you for your generosity and for sharing your heavenly talent!
When music, or anything, makes me grin ear to ear like Jacob's harmonies and rhythms do, I know I have found that sweet spot of meaning in this world: pure joy! YES to LIFE! Pure heaven.
14:49 Jacob even types a computer in time
I shooketheed
SAMPLE IT!!!
BRO that's gr8 😂
I just had the same realization at seeing that clip, then found this comment. Definitely a rhythm to the clickety-clack.
"He's kind of playing with this notion of you, the listener, thinking you know where you are. And he'll throw something at you that unmoors it, but without completely divorcing you from the structure that you knew before."
Well said!
This is amazing! I cant have enough of it!!!
I just want to say Thank You, MIT, for putting this up for everyone to see. Man, what a ride. Thank you!
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He said it in the video: "Quincy Jones said Jacob Collier is as gifted as Michael Jackson." Let's hope that he doesn't meet the same fate as MJ. JC should recreate the Jackson 5 but with just him as an acapella group doing all five parts. Long live great music. Bliss.
I just stumbled into a Jacob Collier video last night at 11 PM. It's now 8 : 35 AM and I have watched this genius kid talk about music, play music, teach music, lead music ... he IS music. He thinks in music - not the technical terms of music but literally in a language only few humans have ever understood. I'm not jealous. I'm thankful that God graces mankind, every once in a while with this kind of talent and gift.
@dylan foley so he beat a god who doesn't exist? nice
@dylan foley - settle down mate and stop getting triggered
@dylan foley it is innate. This talent people are born with, it's in the DNA. of course they can foster it but they can't create it.
absolutely !!!!
its God dude!!!! lol////////// its the only explanation for such beauty....
21:56 the happiest conductor I've ever seen
What an incredible video. Thank you for sharing this amazing experience.
he really IS music.
This guy is way too talented. One of a kind musician.
27:49 the way he swings the snare giving that groove on the drum is actually a Dilla signature, Jacob talked about how he's inspired a lot by hip hop ! He does an excellent job at blending elements from different music eras/genres together it's mind blowing
And that’s incredibly hard to communicate, the blending of straight and swung feels, within a bar. I am blessed with a great musical ear, and I can see Jacob realizing how hard it is to communicate that feel, as he shows him. It’s extremely intricate feel. It’s what J Dilla mastered by forgoing massive quantization.
I know the word “genius” and “superhuman” are thrown around quite easily, but JC is truly both. His talent is both inspirational and intimidating. Brilliant.
Love him always!
What an incredible showcase of Jacob's immense talent! He blows me away every time. How is he real though?! Thank you for posting this!
I don't believe it's possible to watch this and not be incredibly heartened that there are people like this in the world. Broadly, massively exceptional individuals who simply boggle your mind at how utterly brilliant they are, but perhaps more significantly that they are not one to waste or squander their gifts. Jacob's drive and talent seems innate and embedded in the entirety of his person; it is visceral yet oddly casual. He just does it, yet is wildly possessed by his purpose. There is essentially nothing he cannot do in the realm of music and almost certainly well beyond that. A joy to watch and simply be caught up along with everyone else in the jet stream of his truly once-in-a-lifetime talent.
The true MVP here is Jacob's mom.
He's so brilliant, I really worry he might end up going insane from becoming music itself, transforming into this unstable symphony that loops infinitely and never ends, but let's hope he just continues being so darn humble and bring on more love we so desperately need, he's got a true gift of connecting people through his music 💓
Dresscode: Black and white
That one guy: *Cow onesie*
This whole performance made me cry, laugh, get chills and stare in awe... Thank you
You know you’re musically brilliant when MIT asks you to live on campus to study what you create.
What would I give to perform with Jacob.
Round of applause for Jamshied Sharifi...this arrangement was brilliant.
Truly Brilliant!!! So inspiring to see & hear!! : )
seems like a lot of unwarranted hype
At 21:42 the percussionist is thinking "since when was the tambourine so bloody hard!".
Ahahah I just noticed that!!
Breathtaking! Talent overwhelmed!
i gotta say, don’t think i’ve ever seen a more joyful conductor. he was FEELING that groove
i'm just so glad I got to witness a legend in my generation. in the future he would be one of the greatest musicians of all time born in this generation. and that sends chills down my spine. I wish we would never take him for granted even though he's still young.
Seriously, I'm rendered speechless when I listen and watch this young man. At his age, he is already oozing with talent that I have rarely seen in my lifetime. I can only imagine what's to come. The depth of his knowledge; abilities as a multidisciplinary artist, and how he can move effortlessly between genres - funky AF one minute and the next I feel as I have been magically transported to another dimension with his sweet renderings, intricate rhythms and lush harmonies- wow...all of it absolutely sublime. Thank you for this video and bringing us your gifts Jacob Collier. You are the epitome of down to earth creative fire and inspiration. Axios! ( Worthy in Greek)
You just described it perfectly. It's exactly how I feel when I listen to Jacob's music and can't put to words, but you just did it. Thank you.
He's so humble too, it's like music is the diva and he's just his most faithful servant.
As the artist should be! Attentive to his art and not to the posterity or reception of the art.
Spot on
Such a perfect way of phrasing it. He is the vessel for the music and lets it flow through him at its own will.
So so so true, crazy what he's done with his limited resources and time... crazy
Roberto Villafana
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How often is an artist so spot on at a live performance? Almost never. It is so satisfying listening to him. His voice is perfection, always.
Beautiful! Amazing work.
It's so beautiful seeing how every one is enjoying playing the music so much you can tell they're really feeling it and that's what music is all about
"I'd rather write words that invite people to understand rather than projecting my understanding to other people." At 18:35.
This was a really profound and a great thought. Not because it's something new, but because it expresses the idea that ideologically vague (say f.e. politically neutral or even instrumental) music can be intellectually cultivating.
dylan foley "Not because it's something new"
What he said (in the 18:35 quote) is where - and this is not a new thought but here better expressed - education in general SHOULD be heading, and unreservedly so. The old mentality of prescriptive learning consistently results in people who only regurgitate that with which they have pumped up and the ability to think outside the square remains stunted. So much in the field of learning is still geared up - at simplistic and holistic levels - at churning out factory fodder to keep the wheels of industry churning; if the world cannot collectively get past that kind of thinking, we are truly doomed.
This documentary serves as a valedictory metaphor for all those educators who challenge their students to explore their potential and to not limit their expectations.
The old expression of "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day - teach him to fish and he will feed himself for a lifetime" is an apt analogy for so much in life - the same underlying text applies just as much to music and other arts. For sure, we all need to learn the basics and develop core skills but, most importantly, remember that they are a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
Leaving all such philosophical issues aside, I feel as mind-blown as everyone else over his abilities; the expression someone used about "he doesn't just play the music, he IS the music" pretty much sums him up. For us mere mortals, the scope of his musical mind is bordering on scary but you can't help wanting to absorb as much as you can. Right now, the future of music looks pretty good to me.
@@bobhoskins9595 There is a meaningful difference when writing any paper or dissertation on any subject, between "words that invite people to understand [the subject]" and "projecting my understanding [of the subject] to other people". The former aims at exploring the given subject, such that whoever reads the paper may come to some understanding of the subject. Meanwhile the latter only serves to deliver your particular understanding of the subject, usually to a teacher/professor, in a particular syntax, using a particular vocabulary based on the field/educational level, and so on.
The structure of most formal educational facilities heavily favor and reward the latter approach (at least until the higher echelons), this is a major flaw in our education system, as the latter approach doesn't serve to further our understanding at all.
Oceill
That's fine to say, but keep in mind that very repressive governments and societies -- that is, politically hyper-conservative and controlling regimes -- tend to prohibit personal expression in art such as you're seeing with Collier. That even applies to instrumental music which celebrates individuality, like jazz. This is because free thought and expression in general is a threat to the iron fist of a dictatorial society. Artists have throughout history been blocked, harassed, attacked, arrested, and even killed. So don't get too attached to the idea that music like you've watched here is "ideologically vague." As sweet, beautiful, invigorating and nurturing as it seems to us, in the minds of many around the world it can be highly threatening.
@@alanthorpe6835 We can't all be outside-the-box creative thinkers, discarding the past and embracing change. If that happened, we would be truly doomed. It's fine to explore your potential, but you don't really need an educator for that. It's _your_ potential, so _you_ can guide your own exploration. In fact, I propose that there is no better person on the planet to guide one's self-exploration than oneself.
I think it's very likely you will misconstrue my point, so allow me provide an anticipatory retort. I didn't say educators were unneeded or unhelpful. I didn't say it would be more effective to leave them out. I didn't say critical thinkers were not important or unnecessary to avoid doom. I **am** challenging your assumption that churning out factory fodder is a kind of doom scenario. I propose that people like Jacob who are formed in such a way as to challenge themselves and explore their potential will do so regardless of their educators. What's most important is that these individuals have a solid understanding of what those who have come before them have created. This is _exactly_ what educators target. Turns out it's optimal for both the factory fodder as well as the creators.
Read exactly what I wrote and not what you wish I had wrote so you can attack it. Then check yourself.
This makes me euphorically happy... and feel the deepest love and gratefulness!
This guy is AMAZING 💯
The world has waited for modern Mozart.
I have to admit, i was in tears by the end. Jacob is just a phenomenal genius and person. He has so much to offer and i cant wait. Much love and Peace.
I watched this whole video I and I don’t regret it. he’s brilliant!
amazing!
WOW WOW WOW
The fact that there is unreleased footage of Jacob Collier is borderline criminal
I just discovered this music man. More beautiful music in my life. Wonderful
❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤
Wow!!
I can’t even.... game changer. ❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely stunning talent! Thanks so much for putting this together.
UGH THAT WAS OUTSTANDING
Wonderful
I love this video! So much energy.. and, haha a guy doing his show and impressing a hall full of MIT students.. he def got skills
Great video, you can tell how much everyone involved in this project respects Jacob, it’s really quite inspiring to hear musicians talk about it.
che meraviglia!
Watching this I suddenly realized that the title “Hideaway” is actually the musical theme of the arrangement. He establishes the “hideaway” in the first verse, and as things become more chaotic, the listener is grounded in the introductory motif, acting as a “hideaway” from all the complexity in the onslaught of polytonal and polyrhythmic explosions later on
Every time I listen to his songs I find a new, different meaning in them- it’s truly insane!
What would the honorable mullah nassr eddin say?
Wow great insight!
Every bit of this is gold dust! Thanks for sharing it.
UN GENIO IRREVERENTE COMO HORACIO FRANCO. Desde Querétaro, México. 10-Jun-2023
A lot of Goodness.
I was just searching for the KMS 105 microphone and this came up... somoone in MIT went crazy with the tags.
I'm so glad tho cuz I wouldn't have found it otherwise!!
Jacob's music alwaysakes me tear up.... I can't help it.... it's so beautiful
real divinity, yes i agree
FANTASTIC
He never stops amazing me! Must be what infinity is.
Protect this human at all costs
Super fun for these kids.
And today is the day that I discovered Jacob Collier.
Jesus .... This is the most inspiring thing I've ever saw period, just this kind of easy going laid back attitude that lifts everybody up and makes the mind dive into this place where it feels there is love at the center of the human potential. Very amazing, very glad I just started binge watching Jacob I could not be more thrilled to know this guy exists.
This just gave me so much inspiration with my own music.
how the hell does he 'warp the tape' live? so awesome
what I would wonder, the more I listen to him: is there anything happening between Jacob and Bon Iver -> that could be a pretty amazing colab
What a GREAT addition to have mr. Sharifi discuss the arrangement and the original song structure. Very, very informative. Love it!
'you dont hear the math of it, when you hear the song' - how perfectly put. Unmoored - but still rocking in the groove and enjoying it :) so clever and wonderful. and liberating!! beautiful.
This is absolutely amazing
Awesome environment omg
Just discovered his music and by god, I just get neverending goosebumps!
I absolutely love Jacobs music and seeing all the appreciation that he gets from MIT is wonderful. This video made my day
❤
Wow just wow 🙌
Amazing, in awe of the size of this lad. Absolute unit.
17:33
Jazz student: "I could be there with the *clap clap*"
Jacob: "ungh tak tak, ungh tak tak"
Jazz student: "ok"
*high five*
It’s just like seating in a train embarking on a journey that you don’t want to end…. Wow…. Great musical compilation…. This is superb ❤🎉
what an awesome experience - not only Jacob but the whole MIT environment - i love his comment on people at MIT - celebrating the introvert - think inward first - think up and down and into the other realms of things - strikes a chord
This guy makes beautiful music! Brilliant musical mind and extremely gifted! I thank God for creating people like this to bless us musically.
My goodness man. This was magical. Tears and all, this just punched me right in the feels. What a beautiful thing.
thank you...
I love it. He has a cow in the choir.
What a blessing. What an amazing experience for them...I'm glad at least some of us young musicians got the chance to experience Jacob!
Whao. You're amazing. I love this kind of music.
Amazing spirit..
I think he's one of the most inspirational and talented musicans ever. I'm so obsessed with his music lately. What a wonderful human being he is!
“For this kind of music all you need is” *plays something instantly more complicated than I can play*
Jacob is unic, incomparable! I love his music soul.
Genius in action
They need to release the full uninterrupted performances at MIT. Too brilliant to be chopped into tiny nuggets of gold.