What a beautiful thought-provoking speech.

Seeing the current state of our world as an opportunity is helpful.

How inspiring! A little 10 min encouraging speech. I thank him for sharing his thoughts.

I’m a young music lover training to be a conductor. Your message is very inspiring in this bizarre world.

What a beautiful speech.

A lovely speech from Samuel Andreyev. I'd contend that some truly great artists, composers and writers need isolation at times for reflection and generation of ideas. My all time favourite composer, Beethoven, had a tendency to fall in love with women he knew he'd never be allowed to marry as the wealthy fathers of the women would not take a "mere" composer seriously as a potential son-in-law. Beethoven had known nothing but adversity: a drunk, abusive court musician of a father who'd drag young Ludwig out of bed at night to make him practise the keyboard; the death of four of the seven Beethoven children in infancy; a terrible flood in Bonn when Beethoven was a teenager; being the main breadwinner for the family at the age of just 18; the move to Vienna to further his career, never seeing Bonn again; the constant need for patronage in order to continue to compose; the deafness which began to creep in in his very late 20s; the bitter custody battle for his nephew Karl; Beethoven's own mood swings and suicidal thoughts over time; his presence in Vienna at the time of the siege there and so on. Had Beethoven's life been easy , he would not have been the great composer we all know and love, he is our friend for life through his great works and never lets us down. If everyone is having it too easy all the time, there may be less top class creativity. I compose jazz piano pieces, to me they are an expression of my essence and soul, and the small group of fellow pianists that are hearing them genuinely like them. I'm in my late 50s and my 56 year old cousin has just released his superb debut LP/CD in the American country genre, it's beautifully done and I hope he will get some sales. I also do artwork and post this to two of the print-on-demand websites. Here the problem is getting lost in a sea of creativity. There are some genuinely gifted artists, as well as plenty of unoriginal stuff too, and many of us do not get sales. Still, it is fun to be part of a wider community of artists and musicians, on those lower rungs of the creative hierarchy that Dr Peterson writes about so well, that leads all the way up to the likes of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven or Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh to name just a few. Keep creating everyone. At the very least, it is a great hobby, a flow activity which occupies the mind and can alleviate mental health problems and you might just come up with something that sells and earns you a good living. Just my thoughts as a dedicated amateur musician and artist.

Inspiring speech. Superlative. I'm glad ARC chose to shine a light on artists. Going to be following Samuel now.

I’m a big fan of this man. If you are a musician he does extensive breakdowns of classical composers and also my favorite frank zappa and captain beefheart on his KZfaq page.

The voice of true art is interconnected with the divine love of mankind. Listen to the artist that says change is coming for they are the first to notice. Create unselfishly, create with joy and laughter, create because you are called to by the divine. Love creation.

BRILLIANT! MUSIC TO MY HEART & MIND.

I've watched this video again 3 months later, and I must say I've changed my mind. At first, it seemed like an empty and idealistic speech to me, but now I can recognize the objective optimism in the words of this composer.

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen." -Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematograph

He has a great YT channel as well!

I really like Andreyev, and this was an amazing talk. I know he's not the greatest Frank Zappa fan, but Zappa always talked about this issue: people who make an industry out of music are making business decisions, meanwhile he wanted to make music he liked to listen to. While we have Patreon, Bandcamp, Subscribestar, and the internet as a whole, they didnt have it back in the day. If a radio station didn't want your music to be played, you're screwed. It's never been easier to be a musician. In many ways, life has never been easier, yet we're too lost in complaining about it that we forget to appreciate the things our times give us.

The universe is light and music. Being an artist, you connect with life.

So incredibly important. Thank you, Samuel, for your encouragement and wisdom.

Andreyev's vision of a future where artists harness their unparalleled resources to engage with a global audience resonates deeply with the trajectory of human progress. The challenge for artists today is not just to create but to connect, to not just imagine but to inspire, and to not only reflect the times but to shape them. As we navigate this new artistic era, the key, as Andreyev concludes, is love - the fundamental force that drives human creativity and connection across ages.

This on 75% speed is so much more moving and well paced imo.

Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant

Outstanding!

A beautiful speech….he makes words sing. 👏❤️

I am driven by this 'calling' as he put it. No amount of failure has been able to shake me from litterally having to create. I'm grateful to do so and hope my work will lift others in these times.

Wonderful to have strong people coming out and expressing positive ideas and motives with which to regrow our world. Thank you for this expression for music and art.

Sublime and eloquent presentation!

Thank Samuel! You are sensible, fine and encouraging us!

Bravo!

Wellll put together speech. Very thoughtful and hitting on very deep points. Best speech yet🎉🎉

Bravo! How inspirational!

Great to see him here! Samuel Andreyev's music channel in KZfaq is very insightful.

Thanks Sam .Very inspiring

The power of music is to transcend space & time - what a beautiful thing to say. I started hearing the interstellar soundtrack in my head when he said that. ❤

Wow! Is KZfaq taking many of these videos down? I went back to the video on protecting children and it is no longer available….

Sometimes… you can’t have great art without tragedy and isolation. The reason why a lot of artists lack talent today is because they all have similar life experiences. They all seem afraid to step out of the box and do something controversial.

Absolute

Great to hear from an artist with a positive understanding of today and a vision for tomorrow!

Wonderfully said.

Thank you!

This inspirational story is Art!

Very similar to Roger Scruton! Thank you for that. He sees beauty as a value, as important as truth or goodness, that can offer “consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy”, therefore showing human life to be worthwhile.

6:24 Genuine creativity

"authentic artist" ... my mind responds that this is probably interesting for almost everyone, but not me. I'm not artistic; I don't sing, I can't paint, I like music yet lyrics confuse me, I don't connect with poetry -- much in the Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs and other scripture has to be explained to me, and after 6 decades of the world being exposed to RAP I still don't see it as music (I typically class it as loud garbage). However I do believe that I am creative, doing what I can to find solutions to many issues that others have. I've also been invited on several occasions to speak from the pulpit (as a layman) and have had the small blessing to impact a handful of people. So how does Andreyev's talk represent ARC and resonate with non-artistic listeners? Many believe there are about 2-dozen spiritual gifts that people have, while no one expect a person to exhibit all of them. If we are created beings, how do we demonstrate that communication among the peoples in our sphere of influence? I think the answer begins with listening, and I also believe that God often chooses not to shout, but to whisper. So if you are existing in a typhoon of constant input and constant noise and constant busyness, how do you hear the whisper. Therefore I'm thinking one part of having Responsible Citizenship is, even for simple regular people, to allow yourself times of quiet, times of reflection, times away from your regular limelight or chaos, and then during skipping of a stone or the dragging of a branch or the raking of leaves, you could hear God's whisper meant only for you to make a difference in your corner of the world.

Respect and trust the process until God reveal the purpose Goin deep wit goals to meet, no one let it surface Social engineers at work, hoping to reverse it But hindsight 20/20, that'll show em you was worth it Problems we could bypass like an open heart... Ironic, that's what's needed for the broken parts... I talk a lot of trash and I aint always smart... But the truth is bouta shine from out a golden heart Life aint always sunny, tryna show em where to go at dark Put ya faith above if you below the mark... See nor hear no evil, dont acknowledge no remark Smell the roses from the park, shout to Rosa Parks Stand for yours, stand for right, take ya time and know ya part Hold ya ground and hold it down, see it through before you start Just be sure to make ya mark before the end And reach inside yourself to see you more than friends Love...

Inspiring!

Quite sure artists don’t dare to have children.. young people in general, but especially artists. I’m 31 - and know that for a fact by simply having friends my age, a sizeable number of artists included. Not even closely trying to say these are the worst of times, but this is not a realistically optimistic image of the role the artist can play in todays society (one of abundance yet in an apocalipse-infused paralysis throughout society as a whole). This “artist nowadays are too timid” argument is simply a narrowminded argument, even if not in ill will. I’d bet two most prominent reasons the value of art in society dropped drastically are 1) we have all collectively blurred the distinction between inspiration and entertainment / art and content / meaningful stories and empty catchphrases 2) there is no mention of personal responsibility for educating your children into arts of any kind (not for the sake of them becoming artists themselves, but to be able to appreciate it)… no mention of it even on conservative events like this one. “Try to educate your children to appreciate art even if all the Rishi Sunaks in the world swap what is left of it inside schools for a bunch more of algebra. Because it is a parental duty, especially in the world of ones and zeros. In that way leave them protected from a lack of will for meaning seeking” - would be a much more optimistic note to end on. nevertheless, good listen - thank you!

Great positive attitude, thank you very much. Unfortunately, major parts of the world today don't have free access to music and art as he describes, as they live behind the great firewall or in similarly restricted circumstances.

Brave speech

the cessation of the Impressionist painters from the academy system

Great! :) Wish it was longer but glad i found this!

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Powerful and superbly articulated. Bravo! Btw, Samuel’s KZfaq channel is excellent.

In music the courage of a Wim Winters who is trying to pry the young from the mythos ( tyranny) of the conservatory is perhaps an example....

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Read “The Abolition of Man” by C.S. Lewis for a discussion of sublimity and Truth. 61 pages, very dense.

Suggestion for people who are looking for live music. During Covid, someone in my neighborhood applied for a grant from the neighborhood association to arrange concerts on various people’s front lawns. We have been treated to everything from rock and roll to classical timpani to Japanese opera. I realize that Covid is less of an issue now but live music tends to be rather expensive and it’s been such a lovely way of building community and since many of the musicians live nearby, we have gotten a real appreciation of some of our neighbors. If this has not been happening near you, feel free to organize it.

As Gide put it: "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore." *Les faux-monnayeurs* [The Counterfeiters] (1925). That time with no sight of the shore can be very long - indeed as Samuel's story illustrates, it can last a lifetime. So the approval and support of others may be something you should not expect to experience.

As a cynical commenter on this channel, I have nothing critical to say about this one. Andrew is a class act. Top notch speech. All the artists at this year's ARC conference gave thought provoking talks. Great choices.

Please check out Jimek - Radzimir Dębski from Poland. I believe he is truly an outstanding composer, who breached the gap of showing beatiful classical music to young, hip hop addicted youth. He is worth ckecking out

It was probably his solace.what a story thank you for sharing it. I am sure more feeling and less thinking is always wonderful in the Arts. Here here Art should be beautiful again. Dance can also be a beautiful expression of art. A platform they can be seen on could help?

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The thing about art and artist that everyone seems to ignore is that you have to be good. You got to have actual skill to separate yourself from the none artist. Then to become actuality great, you got to become good enough to standout from your fellow artists. In todays world it seems like 99 percent of "artists" have absolutely no skill at all. Yes they may have a message but if thats all it took then everyone would be a artist and if tbat was the case then art wouldn't be anything.

I hope there's more going on in the background. Talking about things is yesterday's thing. Its time to act.

what is that plexi-glass sheet for instance at 0:48 for? I see them all over the place but actually don't have a clue as to what they do

Revelation time of Jesus Christ Amen

Here here. Tho I disagree with some of what he said about the artistic creator being unable to restrain himself because there are forces speaking thru him. (To be born in 1883 and live beyond 40 - anyone would have plenty to say!)

"...why we dare to have children"

REVELATION 11:19. REVELATION 12:1-5. PSALMS 2:1-9. PROVERB 30:4?!.6. PHILIPPIANS 2:6-7. DANIEL 7:13. 2CORINTHIANS 12:1-4. HEBREW 1:2 DO NOT SIN ALWAYS IS IN DIVINE RIGHTEOUSNESS BECAUSE WHEN A PERSON SINS HE IS NO LONGER IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. PROVERB 1:23. PROVERB 4:7. PROVERB 3:5-6. PROVERB 8:8. PSALMS 110:4-5. PSALMS 12:6-7. MALACHI 1:11. HEBREO 4:12.' DON'T CRY OUT LOUD. IBONG LIGAW. PSALMS 144:9. MALAYA KA. ANG KALAYAAN AY MAY KAAKIBAT NA PANANAGUTAN. HEBREO 4:12.

what an utterly bizarre proposition to make after artists have been hit by covid venue closures, and the longer-term decline of gig venues and clubs. We're in a world where 50% of Spotify uploads have less than 1000 streams... but Taylor Swift is a billionaire. There are tiny, tightly knit inner circles in each art scene - all of whom have a significant educational and/or beauty advantage - and everyone else has their nose pressed up against the glass. I think it was Nassim Nicholas Taleb who wrote a chapter in one of his books about how the pre-capitalist world allowed a much better distribution of wealth and created more artistic careers, pro rata. Now, art is the fastest way to broke.

I think that composers mix something very simple and childish to understand: managing composition techniques at the end of the road, it means nothing and has no value over time, if you really have nothing to say, or you can't say anything ....the best example to grasp, is that the composers who had something to say and in an objective way, and... not subjectively..., are very few in the history of music, and counting on the fingers of the hands,...if this is not clear,...then we are not able to truly measure the creative act.

Very shallow. I don't know why, but I expected more after coming here from the community recommendation

As an orchestral/choral composer I have found myself recently "sidelined" or "canceled" because I am merely an old, white guy.

It seems like an idealistic speech.

Well, except for the fact AI exists.

I never get why people use the german term at all if they can't pronounce it in a way people can understand it

I don't understand the point.

creation as a means to transcend a horrible reality

Nice oration, not particularly outstanding, but good nonetheless. I am subscribed to Andreyev’s YT channel and this vid appeared amongst some of his in my feed. While I, again, enjoyed the speech, and am glad to see Samuel be recognized (as representative of contemporary artists in general), I am rather disappointed to see him on this channel. In just briefly looking at some of the other speakers and ideas being hosted here, I was thoroughly perturbed by what I saw. Even before that, the very idea of “cultural decline” is a sure dog whistle (as it were). Anyway, good speech by Andreyev, not so good channel.

His hands are very distracting...

Unbelievably naive. I strongly suspect art will not be permitted under the next caliphate.

"Modalities" Wow, pretentious much?

Isn't this the one guy who writes music that sounds like an orchestra's tuning session? Don't really care what he has to say about art.