John Maus - Interview (Episode 84)
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- An interview with John Maus at Glasslands in Brooklyn.
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He's basically saying to be real and don't comply with the arbitrary rules of society. He's also saying being a good, genuine person is a rebellious act in itself.
and you're saying what we need some jack off in comment sections to reiterate his points cause we're to stupid to comprehend it all by ourselves??
@@buckovens6706 Not gonna get far with that attitude man.
@@marsvai2410 Who said anything about getting far?
I love how he knows his brain is on fire and apologizes as a preface, before they even get started. I love the dichotomy between the simplicity of his lyrics and the deep philosophical twists and turns talking to him off stage. Much like the dichotomy between the beautiful music he makes on the albums and the physical and borderline confrontational way it's delivered live. This guy could be spending the rest of his life in a Minnesota cabin transcribing Xenakis scores, but instead he just wants to write catchy pop tunes with simple lyrics. What a national treasure this guy is.
This dude seems more sincere than most musicians and people I come across. He is speaking in the now...his mind seems to be expanding as he talks.
Thank-you Maus for being different. Never shut up.
The john maus of music
John's freedom is something I find very inspiring but hard to replicate
I wish more artists incorporated the holy sounds of Renaissance and Medieval modes.
"It is the mark of an educated person to require as much certainty in a particular domain as the nature of the matter allows"- Aristotle
That quote should tell you why he is communicating the way he is
with his music he makes a very important point to me. and that is: making pop music but with a serious approach. like when you listen to his music it feels like every chord is in it's right place every second has importance. he puts so much effort in his music and also in his performances. and that is something worthwile to spend a lifetime with
rodney mullen of music
haha! love it
hahaha holy shit that's good
@@bens5974 that's pretty fucking good
Dude, that's exactly what I said, I skate and play music and I truly have benefited from the advice both give, as if they are one beautiful mind.
Just started getting like "really" into this guy's music. Have heard and known about John for a while but never really took his music seriously until recently. After seeing this interview, my love and respect for him AND his music at the same time just quadrupled. The humor in his music is simply genius and not everyone is going to like or understand it. They don't know shit about outer space anyways.
love the last sentence homie
You love yourself and everyone loves you. Never mind anyone that says the contrary. They mean nothing. The world around you means nothing without you. You are all that matters. Merry Christmas.
If you want him to shut up then why would you watch one of his interviews? He's obviously gonna talk about ideas and philosophy if that's what he's into. How is that any worse than talking about trivial stuff? One of the most interesting interviews I have seen. I think it's cool he's excited about what he's doing, whether he's eccentric or not.
I love you john maus, you are my imaginary friend
His music rules and he sounds like a smart dude to me. Be a good person and try at something.
Well, he was a teacher of philosophy at the University of Hawaii and he has a PhD in political science so he is a smart guy.
"We're meant to be grateful that we can appear not even as we are." some of the truest words spoken
This guy is a genius, I love him, he´s a future legend
Johnmau5
lmau5
I wonder what that girl from Bennington looked like.
He’s brilliant and inspiring - brightens my mood just listening to him talk :)
I think thinking that he is eccentric is the mainstream thought he is disappointed with and that he says in his interview. He says having a Phd was just to avoid the daytime job and it's nothing special but I disbelieve that, he has a Phd because he has a Worthy insight worth hearing
I'd like to attend his class
this man has swag
I can't tell if he's smart, insane or just playing a character
I think he's a little of both. He went to collage for psychology and philosophy btw
@@gratefulbear2183 he taught philosophy, doesnt have a degree in it. he has a PhD in political science and a bachelors in music composition.
@claus4 yes, we asked our questions off camera. it was my choice in producing the video to leave them out-- keep it as free flowing as his thoughts appear to occur.
i feel like i would understand the secrets of the universe if only i could understand what the hell this guy is talking about
Im lost were the quesrions begin and end XD love this guy
Just because it didn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.
it makes sense. it's just shit.
John maus is a good man
I know this is a year ago but agree entirely. Such a genuine guy.
genius, his mannerisms are the archetype of a true fucking genius, never heard his music before, was interested in seeing what kind of person he is, awfully brilliant.
Breaking those silences is so hard! Thank you for talking! I will try better!
his music is amazing
does anybody know if he is single? :-)
This man has suceeded in his quest.
John Maus makes me excited about right now.
Fuck 2012 was good.
@@musicnoonelikes good times
Hey
muy bueno!
Soy de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Muchas gracias!
this dude and mark gonz would be best friends
Who is mark gonz?
@@versnellingspookie The best pro skater in the world, in my opinion
Had to come back
I bet you people would never say any of your negative comments you write on youtube if you were talking right in front of him because you would not make sense
@@leavemealone4018 lol your name says it all
@@leavemealone4018 your wack
So much impact. He’s so inspiring.
I luv John Maus sm
What an intense fucking guy
lmao. So true dude. I feel exactly the same.
Just saw him live. Damn is he cool and smart! JOHN FUCKING MAUS.
John Maus the philosopher
He's brilliant...He is how I feel daily...
Anyone know which song hes doing at 1:00?
Pure Rockets
I absolutely love this guy
any one know what some of his favorite books are?
"How to BOMB the U.S. Govt"
Probably some stuff by Delueze. His dissertation was about control societies, after all. No idea about anything specific though.
@@buckovens6706 waoww holy shit, how based
I know he likes Flannery O'Connor
I didn't watch the whole thing but this guy has the THICKEST metaphysical wall of bulletproof lucite up I've ever seen
He talks like Dennis Hopper in "Apocalypse Now": "You can't land on a fraction man...."
What type of Camera were you guys using?
.... I don't know.
YEAH AGAIN!!!!!!
COOOOLLEEEGEEEEE
I WANT TO GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOL ILL LEARN THIS
@pasheko152 he didnt say. i didnt ask because he purposefully left it unsaid... although, from what he talks about and the record title, i have my opinion.
nice interview
Did the interviewer even ask a question ?
Whats the song at 5:42 ??
John, YOU are the new language!
@germanhaircut i believe its off the new record coming out.
@TEACHYOUTEEWHY panasonic p2, canon 60d, RCA 1981 RCA VHS camcorder. the VHS is very temperamental-- power wise and lighting wise. it would have been featured more had glasslands not been so dark.
thanks for a lengthy interview & random clown face lol!
nice work you guys :)
@germanhaircut This IS The Beat
on fire
What song is it at 1:22 to 1:31 in this video. It's driving me mad
It's John Maus - Quantum Leap, my friend (around 1:18m, here: soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/john-maus-quantum-leap)
John Maus "Fader" Interview Transcript (with redacted "uhs" and incomplete sentences)
(Here we go.) (So, we're rolling.) (Are we?) (Are we rolling?)
My name is John Maus and at the top I would like to say, because I've done a few video things now and I've seen them online, I just want to apologize from the outset if I'm coming into anybody's life uninvited. Like, you're walking in the grocery store and some clown face jumps out at you and you didn't invite it in. So if I'm springing on anybody right now, just turn it away, I'm sorry, I apologize that I came in.
*Pure Rockets plays*
A little bit about it...I've been working on it for a couple of years, it's not the kind of breakthrough I hoped it would be. It's more of a consummation of the ideas I've been working with for a while, kinda hoping it would be Maiorica or something. It's a good consummation.
*Quantum Leap plays*
I know it's a pretentious mouthful, but we must become the pitiless censors of ourselves. It comes from these theses on contemporary art that this philosopher wrote. I kind of liked him a lot for a long time, they really influenced me, I really was like "Yeah, right on" for a long time. But now, I can kind of see, having followed that for a while, where it exhausts. Where you can hit a wall abiding these things so militantly, and so maybe it needs to be supplemented with something else. Either way, it is the philosophy that guided the last ten years, so I thought I would use the title. In this world we live in, everything is encouraged and permitted and we're just encouraged to say nothing at all, keep saying nothing at all. Maybe that's what's happening. Maybe the way we can resist that is by really struggling to interrupt that by really speaking or something. Let's stop saying nothing at all, how about that? We start there and just try, I would claim to just raise it up a little bit towards a better picture or something.
*Believer plays*
That's the idea, if we just give over to the enjoyment in the community that we were lost. Art and thought are ruined. I don't think the advanced degree of all that, there's nothing too spectacular about that. It's just a way to avoid a day job for most of us, I think. Like art, music, these kind of things that's a true separate kind of trajectory then maybe language and philosophy and this kind of thing, I don't mean to sound cynical or anything, but I don't see a kind of language that has risen to the art of our time. To punk rock music. To genre films. I haven't seen a rigorous thought rise to that level yet and I'd like to see it. I'm often, I don't mean to again sound cynical, but I'm often kind of disappointed by the mainstream conversation, for lack of a better way of putting it. I feel like it falls short, it's a little bit behind.
*Believer continues*
But, what I'm trying to do is, like I'm always saying, something else than that. To me, by and large, it doesn't seem to say anything. It's this weird thing, it's this weird situation where there's like a handful of, in terms of representing the work within our situation, in the mechanisms available, like how you do that today, how we've shared the work with others, you have to throw your lot in a little bit in this whole regime that's a little bit unfair, I think. We're meant to be grateful that we can appear not even as we are, just as a bunch of little images next to each other with their little paragraph and then the rest of us are just anonymous. I think we ought to beat down this terrible, discursive regime, this state. We ought to, in the name of each other. I mean, it's so stupid, it's not a new idea, but perhaps that's for a reason, it's a good idea.
*This Is The Beat plays*
I like classical music and Renaissance music and Medieval music and baroque music, especially the Medieval and the Renaissance stuff. The kind of pre-tonal languages interest me, but there's separate languages from ours, of course. The task would be to try to make, if we owe it to these other languages, to try and make ours as radically expressive as some of the stuff that happens from those other situations. This suspicion that if pop music is its own kind of trajectory, like we have a lot of instruments at our disposal, a lot of these old synthesizers and stuff like that that could be remobilized today in really interesting ways. It's not a question of nostalgia or retro or something like that, it's a question of this moment right now, they speak. They afford something that an Apple plug-in just cant do. They offer something now to us that these other things don't and we should use them if the work necessitates them.
*Streetlight plays*
(Do you ever get overwhelmed by that desire to be all encompassing?)
Yeah, absolutely, it's really hard. Just recently, I was in a car and I was listening to the radio, listening to one of these old pieces, and somebody next to me had headphones on and they were listening to Lexa(?) with the periodic beat and I could hear that in their ears and they were listening to that instead of the Beethoven. I would always want to avoid this kind of high and low nonsense that we're certainly beyond and look at them as disparate truths, as disparate procedures, and not try and judge the one by the other, but sometimes it's hard. They have lots of dimensions that we've completely gotten rid of, like the whole dimension of thematic development and the whole dimension of tonality, like, oh my god, you just modulated the E flat from C major, or the whole adventure from D minor to D major at the end of the whole symphony, or something like that, or C minor to C major and the fifth. Like it was an adventure, the conventions allowed everybody to kind of behold. We've just gotten rid of those dimensions, but I think that's also about what makes our language so interesting.
*Streetlight continues*
They'll trouble you. I would say that. That it's not a question. There's a lyric on this new album where I talk about human beings being in a locker. I wouldn't want anybody to think I'm talking about the Matrix pod or Plato's cave or something like that. That like we need to emancipate ourselves from a locker. No, we need to go deeper in the deeper caves. We're always inside the locker, it's not about freeing ourselves and appearing in the element of our pure presentation or something like that, it's about going in deeper.
Thank you! i really like his music, when i came across this interview i got really happy but i'm deaf so i can't hear what he's saying
biggest inspiration of the year.
if i-ve had money id get john maus, nardwaur , lazlo krasznahorkai, Slavoj Žižek and sam harris in the same room, a 10liter bottle of whiskey and a film crew.
Incoherent self aggrandizing and John Maus is basically what you want.
And Jordan Peterson
j hu jbp and harris do indeed suck shit but you could have at least made your comment seem aloof and ivory towerish, the targeted profanity has me down brother
@cleborptheretard great words
Why does he screams alle the time ? I nearly fell off my chair
so. fucking. rad.
john maus should hear newwaver(from melbourne)
this guy real as fawkes
@ihatekhomeini
wikipedia said that he only started his PhD this year...
@jimipatterson good idea !
I really don't think he's on drugs. He must be ADHD/asbergers/Manic etc. etc. Wonderful to listen to him none the less.
fuck your diagnoses, read some Foucault.
Thank you so much saying this, as an autistic person seeing this video for the first time, I picked up on that immediately. From the lack of eye contact, the rigid speaking patterns, the hyper-intellectualism and the hand gestures which are probably grounding him during this interview. Its disappointing that so few people are able to recognise this and just assume he's acting or on drugs.
It's like and MDE sketch
Que legal. Jociane Pereira
He does communicate his ideas to others. He's communicated his ideas to more people than you ever will because you've done nothing. You'll never do anything either. You'll just go about your entire life dismissing anyone who sounds more successful and intelligent than you as "pseudo-intellectual". You'll die and no one will have relished in your music or your words as they have with John Maus.
What does he mean by "saying something"?
Be yourself
We should meet John....We would get on quite well..If I could get a word in....meh hehehh....
is this his act?
good music and funny performance
Actions speak louder than words. Ineffability n shit!
He's plain mad...genius?
You need to take into consideration what I meant when I was speaking about communicating ideas. I think I made it fairly clear that I was referring to communication of ideas in an academic sense rather than in a musical, poetic or artistic sense. This man teaches a college course in Political Science at a university in Hawaii. The fact that you like his music, as I do too, is completely irrelevant to my initial statement. Everything else you said was just an ad hominem attack on me.
@ihatekhomeini I can see he's obviously educated and a thinking man, albeit somewhat scattered and smothered! I also realize this is probably his "on" persona (one cultivated through the years) and that he probably amplifies this for effect. I personally find this display irritating and would not want to hang out with him if he was ALWAYS this amped up and "engaged." If it isn't an act, then I feel for the poor lad: it must be utterly exhausting for his friends, family and himself.
This man is genius
@danielson233 agreed
hes a alien, i love it
@flowerdoodle
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@flowerdoodle oh cmon we all want our entertainers to be eccentric:)
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When you’re 8 and you forget to take your ADHD meds before school 😂
I wanna be this coked up
shout out to jim joe
You didn’t have to apologize for shit bruh
@shinyalbert I know autistics can be extremely bright and knowledgeable about certain subjects, so yes, they would lend itself to this line of work I suppose. I was more referring to the rigors and social demands involved with applying and interviewing for such a position. Though credentials are everything, I suppose. I agree that there is the "nutty professor" archetype that seems to be acceptable.
I like the idea of pushing the radical envelope in music to the extent that baroque classical medieval musical languages did, I'm not saying this is a truth but, what if we've push the musical envelope so far already that the only place left to go are places so distasteful that we can't or shouldn't go. What I mean by this is subject matter that is so distasteful that it would never be considered an art form that would ever be considered a true impacting art and seen more as a novelty so why put effort into this? It would never come close to the musical languages I stated earlier. Kind of like how we consider ourselves so progressed as a society, but yet its still considered shocking and illegal for a man to walk around at the mall with his dick hanging out. I'm probably 100% wrong I just thought of this when he started talking about pushing the envelope.
i actually have no clue what he's talking about
he's not speaking to you
he's actually saying some pretty provoking stuff if you parse out some of the concepts he is referencing.
6:30