Ep. 43 - Vulnerable Authenticity within Music Creation & Consumption ft. Rio Mutasim

BrownTown chops it up with musician and overall creative Rio
Mutasim about emotionally-informed music-making, consuming art
responsibly, and the vulnerabilities that come with it all. 


 


How do we respond to, create, and consume music and other
creative art forms? As consumers, we experience and feel only so
much of the process and intention. As creators, we can only do so
much to see our full vision come to life while battling obstacles
of time, money, creative control, compromise in collaboration,
trauma, personal life, etc. Rio and BrownTown unpack the
emotional responsibility and toll of putting yourself into your
work and what that means in terms of our broader socio-political
environment. Rio and BrownTown speak to the idea of
emotion-informed creativity and how they consume art. Rio tells
his journey and process of putting his experiences and raw
feelings into his music as a therapeutic method and how that has
resonated with others. As past endeavors required Rio and other
musicians to “play the game” of adhering to the politics and
strategies of a more corporate model, the gang deciphers the
limitations artists have while trying to grow professionally and
even the very definition of “professionalism” (shoutout Ep. 29 -
Code Switching). Where the line is between the artist as the
world sees them and the artist as the everyday human, especially
when money and survival is involved. The conversation evolves
from micro to macro deliberating on Kendrick’s authenticity,
Kanye’s music and politics, R. Kelly’s systematic abuse, Rick
Ross as a parole officer, Jared Leto playing a transwoman, and
more. At the end of the day, Rio and BrownTown settle on the
importance of meeting people where they’re at when confronting
them about the issues of our day and how to push each other to be
better with love, understanding, and education.


 


GUEST
Rio Mutasim is a writer, filmmaker, musician and
overall creative who was apart of the original Chi DNA academic
project. Born and raised in Chicago, the 24-year-old creative is
now working in his second studio album Butterfly Gemini.
Find Rio's music on Spotify, Soundcloud and YouTube. Follow him
on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.


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CREDITS: Intro/outro music by Rio Mutasim. Audio
engineered by Genta Tamashiro. Episode photo by Jena Snelling.


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