Be Loud, Make Playful Noises, Sound is Life! [PODCAST]

I’m afraid of:
being heard
disturbing people
making too much noise
taking up too much space
dominating and monopolizing the sound space
being too loud

These fears were so strong they held be down, I let them hold me down, when I was a giggling teenager. Full of energy and life I was and yet I kept my most precious voice locked away. I sang my heart out in the car, alone on my commute to school each day - 1hr each way. When I got to college I felt kind of depressed for the first time in life. Something was missing. I came home for Christmas and sat in my car (I didn’t have or need a car at college), switched on the radio and sang along. There it was!!! My daily hours of singing were missing from my life at college. My 19 year old self realized in that moment the powerful role that singing and making noise plays in my well-being.

Zoom forward a decade and now I’m recording The Cha Wilde Show in my very own music studio in Seattle. I’m there before the sun comes up today. It’s raining outside, trains are going by and I’m singing and making weird animal noises. I’m continuously learning how to produce music, mix songs, perform, teach, speak and deliver beautiful packages of fun inspiring sound to people. I’ve had this vision bubbling in me for a couple years. The podcast; I’ve interviewed people. I’ve explored abstract concepts of creativity. I’ve guided you on production sessions and some of the songs we made on the podcast are going to be on my upcoming album. Look out for ‘Cruel World’ and ‘Hello My Love’. You know the song “Like a Bird I’ve Flown Away” on my album ‘The Sound of Freedom’ was also created on my podcast.

If you’re wondering what I mean “created on my podcast”, I mean you can listen to me creating the song from scratch to finish. I recorded the entire process and edited it down, condensing it into a 1hr magic unveiling song creation experience! SO freaking fun.

Now, I’m nesting in my new studio and clicking ‘record’ on the computer and ‘play’ on myself. Enjoy this new episode of The Cha Wilde Show — it’s got fresh music I’m producing live for you, a deep dive into playfulness and why it’s worth learning how to write happy songs, and a little bit more about those fears I mentioned (the ones about making noise and showing up big in this world).

The Cha Wilde Show · 149. Be Loud, Make Playful Noises, Sound is Life!

I’m afraid of: being heard disturbing people making too much noise taking up too much space dominating and monopolizing the sound space being too loud These fears were so strong they held be down, I let them hold me down, when I was a giggling teenager. Full of energy and life I was and yet I kept my most precious voice locked away. I sang my heart out in the car, alone on my commute to school each day - 1hr each way. When I got to college I felt kind of depressed for the first time in life. Something was missing. I came home for Christmas and sat in my car (I didn’t have or need a car at college), switched on the radio and sang along. There it was!!! My daily hours of singing were missing from my life at college. My 19 year old self realized in that moment the powerful role that singing and making noise plays in my well-being. Zoom forward a decade and now I’m recording The Cha Wilde Show in my very own music studio in Seattle. I’m there before the sun comes up today. It’s raining outside, trains are going by and I’m singing and making weird animal noises. I’m continuously learning how to produce music, mix songs, perform, teach, speak and deliver beautiful packages of fun inspiring sound to people. I’ve had this vision bubbling in me for a couple years. The podcast; I’ve interviewed people. I’ve explored abstract concepts of creativity. I’ve guided you on production sessions and some of the songs we made on the podcast are going to be on my upcoming album. Look out for ‘Cruel World’ and ‘Hello My Love’. You know the song “Like a Bird I’ve Flown Away” on my album ‘The Sound of Freedom’ was also created on my podcast. If you’re wondering what I mean “created on my podcast”, I mean you can listen to me creating the song from scratch to finish. I recorded the entire process and edited it down, condensing it into a 1hr magic unveiling song creation experience! SO freaking fun. Now, I’m nesting in my new studio and clicking ‘record’ on the computer and ‘play’ on myself. Enjoy this new episode of The Cha Wilde Show — it’s got fresh music I’m producing live for you, a deep dive into playfulness and why it’s worth learning how to write happy songs, and a little bit more about those fears I mentioned (the ones about making noise and showing up big in this world). SOUND IS LIFE Make noise, beautiful creature. Let us enjoy your voice, your silly sounds. Make us feel your presence in the vibrations, reaching through space to hold us. We are in this together and our music is our most sacred magic. How else can we feel each other so deeply and be so woven as one? When you tremble in fear of making too much noise, shake it off. Remember, SOUND IS LIFE! Be alive!

SOUND IS LIFE
Make noise, beautiful creature.
Let us enjoy your voice, your silly sounds.
Make us feel your presence in the vibrations, reaching through space to hold us.
We are in this together and our music is our most sacred magic.
How else can we feel each other so deeply and be so woven as one?
When you tremble in fear of making too much noise, shake it off.
Remember, SOUND IS LIFE! Be alive!

I'm afraid of: being heard disturbing people making too much noise taking up too much space dominating and monopolizing the sound space being too loud These fears were so strong they held be down, I let them hold me down, when I was a giggling teenager.

She is The Ocean - Cha Wilde Painting

Turn Yourself On With Cora Boyd

Happy TURN YOURSELF ON Day! -- Why people want to hang out with you. Why delighting yourself and turning yourself on is so fucking essential to creativity and business success. If you’re creatively frustrated, you’re probably sexually frustrated. Today's guest on The Cha Wilde Show: Cora Boyd, attraction and relationship coach, my friend in a fur coat and the best thing that's happened to you in a long time. Cora helps ambitious creatives cultivate romantic magnetism + become active agents in their love lives.

🍍 Cora and I met in a coffee shop and feel in love at first sight. She gave me her Instagram on the spot and we’ve been playing dress up and dancing in the living room together ever since. She’s skyrocketing in her career as an attraction and relationship coach, every month she hosts Pillow Talks and Date Night Live in Seattle (very fun way to spend an evening meeting new friends with candor) and she’s recently gone viral on YouTube. Have you seen her on The Cut? Holy dick!

10 Steps to Go From ‘Afraid to Start’ to ‘Not Giving a Fuck’
1. Accept that you’re always going to feel fear
2. Just do it, get out there, take action
3. Conversations like about, discussing the creative process of facing fear and how we ‘just do it’, talk about it with other people
4. Consume content that encourage you to go for it
5. Work with clients who inspire you by their bravery
6. Encourage others to go for it, you’ll end up encouraging yourself in the process
7. Through the work, you’ll see the impact you’re having, this will motivate you
8. Break rules, it makes the whole process more fun
9. Live life, have your own adventures like going dancing and lounging on your favorite couch in silence
10. Always be learning, when you’re not learning you’ll feel bored, constrained, uninspired

Cora Boyd

♡attraction + relationship coach @thecoraboyd
♛I help ambitious creatives cultivate romantic magnetism + become active agents in their love lives
➺ work with mewww.coraboydcoaching.com/discoverycall

LOVE
CHA🍍WILDE

Risque, Sophisticated, Welcoming Creativity

Never Doubt Yourself, Do All That Depends on You

Never doubt yourself.
Do all that depends on you.
You are music — you are every genre.
That’s why you’re here.
— Timbaland

What do you mean Timbaland? Welcome to my dark magic music classroom. Today we’re talking about this: Why do you waste your time doubting yourself? Doubt is the shitty voice in your head. Where did these little devil thoughts come from? Inner speech can take almost any form from making lists, playing out past conversations, imagining scenarios and making up fucking lies aka untruths about ourselves. I bet you’re going to be plagued by doubt until the day you die. Stop trying so hard to stop the doubts. Instead, just accept that they’re going to be there and let them leave. Do not let them stop you. Doubt is just a though or a feeling. It is not you and it does not control you or your action. You are what you choose to do and be. Not the thoughts. What will not exist if you don’t do it? You are a human. That means you are an expression of emotion. Does Sophia the robot have emotions? Can you make music? What would the robot say if we asked her, “Are you music?” As a human, you can find something for YOU in every genre of music. Every genre touches on the same stuff in it’s own way. As a listener of music, you can find yourself in all kinds of music. You can find yourself in all humans. You’re here to create the thing that only you can create, expressing the emotions that come out of you, to connect with the emotions that are coming out of everybody else, so you can participate in that sharing. You are here so you can feel what other people and other people can feel what you feel. We’re all feeling this experience together. Together, WE are all the genres and we are all the music, so why would we doubt ourselves? Anything you do is a valid expression of you. What depends on you that is INSIDE of you? You doubt because you’re afraid because you don’t know what’s going to happen. Of course, you don’t know what’s going to happen. Nobody does. So just get in there and do it and delight in the pleasure of seeing it unfold before you. Don’t waste any time or precious energy trying to figure it out. Now I just get to enjoy it for what it is. When you don’t listen to the doubts, you get to enjoy your creations the way other people enjoy it.

READ IT AGAIN
Never doubt yourself.
Do all that depends on you.
You are music — you are every genre.
That’s why you’re here.
— Timbaland

Go buy your pair of Wilde Leggings!
*Remember, you get extra long foot massages in Savasana if you show up to my yoga class wearing Wilde Leggings! ;)

LOVE
CHA🍍WILDE

How To Cast Spells On People with Creativity

How do you captivate someone? How do you cast a spell over an audience and hold people’s attention? What does it mean to be enchanting? The dictionary and thesaurus will help us today as we explore why we want this and how we can use creativity to get there. Listen to The Cha Wilde Show 7: How To Cast Spells On People with Creativity w/ Featured Song: Hello My Love by Cha Wilde and a little live music play on the Ableton Live Push 2 at the very end of the episode (we WILL turn this machine into a toy!)

For the next 30 days starting (Feb 11, 2020), I’m showing up on The Cha Wilde Show, an episode every day for you. 30 days in a row, relatively raw, evolving as we go; a little sprint to get consistent and going deeper. What is this show? Who connects? What sticks?

In my journal this morning, I wrote “The Cha Wilde Show” at the top of the page and then felt annoyingly awkward about it. Why so shy, Cha? It feel ostentatious for launching my own show on the world. Who needs it? I’m just shining the spotlight on myself, a little spectacle of self. I specifically re-branded my podcast to name it after myself and have my own SHOW. At the beginning of this episode I explore what it means to have a ‘show’ and realize that we are all showing up, showing what we know, showing off, showing the way for each other, running the show, stealing the show. I made this show so I could show up. I’m carving out my own little corner of the universe so I can invite you in and we can be together here. We can discuss what is troubling, create for our healing, feel the deep longing to let go of whatever is holding us back and reinvent ourselves together each day. How can we evolve with courage and bold creativity? Share with me and I’ll share with you. What do you need help with? What is your current daily challenge? What journey is transforming you right now? You are super duper invited. Join me for the next 30 days of The Cha Wilde Show. It’s totally free. You can watch on YouTube, listen on SoundCloud and any podcast streaming app. —> Sign up for my emails so I can hand you each episode and we can connect. And have you checked out my new line of Wilde (yoga) Leggings featuring my original artwork? Which design is your favorite?

LOVE,
CHA🍍WILDE

Hello My Love, How to Enjoy the Journey

”I am not a journey person. I am a destination person. I hate the trip. I just can’t wait until I reach the destination and once I’m at the destination, then I can enjoy myself. This year I’m going to focus on enjoying the journey.”

A woman shared this with me at a yoga retreat. After our conversation, I wanted to help her enjoy the journey more (because I freaking love the journey). So I came home and recorded this new episode of The Cha Wilde Show, which resulted in this new song “Hello My Love”, to help her and you, anyone who feels distracted by the destination, to find presence, to enjoy the journey and to enjoy life more deeply. Listen and let me know if this helps you. Send me a message. or comment at the bottom.

The other ladies at the yoga retreat said:

“I’m turning 60 this year, so to celebrate, every day this year I’m enjoying myself fully that day. Every day will make a big celebratory year. If I die at the end of the year, it’s okay because I had a good year.”

”It’s been a hard year of doing what needs to be done. Every day I go through the list and every night I go to bed feeling heavy knowing that I have to wake up the next morning and go through it all again. I’m just searching for some presence because it’s all going by so fast.”

”Every year, I’ve been so focused on forgiving other people. This year, I just want to focus on myself and getting to know myself better.”

These comments rolled in my mind all weekend. Everybody just wants to feel present. I hope I can help even just a little bit with this new episode. I sat in my garage and created a song that I could imagine myself listening to while on a road trip. I LOVE the journey, the traveling on trains, cars and boats. I love land travel (not so much air travel but it’s still impressive). The journey fills me with joy. I love the new scenery. Rather than just telling you how much I love it, it’s best to show you. In this video I’ve included video footage of me recording this podcast in my studio PLUS footage of me out in the world on my journeys, my adventures with friends and epic scenery. I hope my joy for the journey is just a little bit contagious and inspires you to go find some “journey joy” for yourself. ;)

TOOLS FOR YOUR JOURNEY

1. Take a deep breath. Wiggle your toes. Experience the world through your senses.

2. Anticipatory Pleasure vs. Consummatory Pleasure — Listen to EDM drops! As in EDM, so in life, the drop is satisfying because of the build up. There is pleasure in the moments of the journey and pleasure in looking forward to the destination. It’s the whole package. You as a human, include beginnings, middles and endings at all times. Enjoy BOTH the journey and the destination; not one or the other. Don’t deny yourself the joy of the destination. Enjoy both, dancing together.

3. Journal. Write letters to yourself in someone else’s voice; the voice of a wiser being who knows exactly what you need to hear. You can time travel through your life and remember your journey and see your growth. Write about anything. I don’t care how old you are or how many times you’ve tried and failed at journaling. Try again. Start creating your library. You’re going to write a lot of shit and along the way you’ll find some gems.

4. Practice. Your practice will always be there at any moment and you can go to it at any moment as your portal to enter the presence. Breathing practice. Meditation. Yoga. Piano. Running. Your practice brings you into the now. Find things in life that you choose to make your practice; they become your foundation that you stand on and your train track that you travel down. Walk down the same road regularly. Go on vacation to the same place. Place yourself next to something steady so you can observe your fluctuating self. You’ll start to notice the changes and growth in yourself and this will spark your interest in your journey. Build a relationship with your practice and the present moment so it becomes a friend calling your name. How are you going to build a relationship with the present so you look forward to spending time with it? If you want to be present, you need to know what the present is and what you love about it and why you want it. You have to know what you want if you’re going to get it.

5. Play good music! Music themed with your destination helps build anticipation pleasure. Our destination is feeling our body. Choose music that wakes up your body and makes you want to dance, that stimulates all your chakras so you feel enlivened.

SOUNDS CREATED IN THIS SONG

1. Cha’s ujjai breath — atmospheric sound like the ocean or wind, starting with the breath to become present, to connect with a basic primal rhythm that always brings us into the moment, stimulated chakra #6

2. Cha’s fingers snapping in various locations in relation to microphone — humans can easily engage with this action (snapping), ignites the willpower and action that we need to move forward on our journey, moving us so we don’t feel stagnant, snapping our attention back to the present moment, stimulates chakra #3

3. Layering multiple snaps to creating a richer, deeper, more dynamic, stimulating, satisfying feeling; power of community and coming together

4. Used the breath (inhale) as a riser to build anticipation. The journey is all about anticipation. EDM drop is all about the build (anticipation) and the release of the drop. They come as a pair.

5. Train sounds to trigger subconscious visions and memories of traveling, journeying by trains. Real life sound effects can be used for all sorts of background vibes, and manipulated to resemble other instruments. It add thematic texture.

6. Guitar Loop that makes me want to sing! Whenever we find a sound that inspires vocals to flow out, we go with it. Flow with the inspiration, whatever is coming in naturally. For the first takes of the vocal tracks, I just opened my journal and started reading out loud, singing the words I wrote months ago. Sing your journal out loud and don’t be afraid of being cheesy.

7. Drums that have a punchy, grinding vibe to add some edge to the song which was starting to sound predictable, stimulate chakra #2

8. Breaking up our vocal takes into percussive beats to create an interesting melody or percussion rhythm that connects with the voice and then lining up the vocal beats with the drum loop to harmonize or replace the drum beats, chakra #5

9. Search for rhyming words (for lyrics) at Rhymezone.com — if you can’t find a good rhyme, go in a new direction. Near rhythms, no thank you.

10. Play keyboard and experiment with grand piano, glass piano and synth sounds until the sound is delicious. Stimulates chakra #4

11. Cello to add deep rich feeling in the chest. Adds so much character. Stimulates chakra #4

FROM MY JOURNAL

A LETTER TO CHA FROM GOD / Oct 12, 2019
Hello my love,
A while it has been, so lonely in the present without you,
although not more of an ache, a longing to be with you in the here and now,
Fire is a gift for you this year and always.
Sit still with her as she moves you.
You’re doing a beautiful job of doing the work; so many temptation have jumped at you
and slayed them one by one you have cleared space, engaged and progressed.
You’re learning so quickly and sowing so many seeds in a plentiful rich soil,
and the harvesting is on its way.
You will see fruits of your focused labor so soon.
Enjoy this moment of the journey; each step is cherished and essential.
Do not worry, you’re perfectly on course. Keep moving and
move in the stillness.
Love, Cha

LYRICS EXTRACTED FROM MY PHONE NOTES

I go to new places so I can feel like me.
I came back and everything was different.
I’m chasing the invisible and I can’t see where I’m going
I suppose it doesn’t matter
The pathway is still showing and I am still knowing.

Oh, wow how beautiful this day is,
This journey away from home to return home.
You feel most like yourself when you’re far away from home;
out there you see what’s important enough to bring with you.

I could travel the world singing for strangers but I would rather sing for my friends.
I keep trying to make the strangers my friends but I can’t seem to keep them.

HERE’S THE FINAL SONG WE CREATED.

still need a little more? here you go…

Gil Frosdale reminds me that we can choose “the beautiful way.” What is the beautiful way to travel, to do your work, to move through your daily tasks? You’ve probably been told to choose to fast way, the efficient way, the kind way or the fun way. HOW are you being? HOW, what is your energy, your intention, your vibe as you are acting, approaching the projects of your life. Are you rushing? Worried? Are you drifting? Zoning out? Obsessing and tight? Distracted? What does your body feel like? What’s the quality of your being, your state of being, your experience of the moment, the sensations in your body? Are you focused on the destination and what are you promising yourself in that destination? Are you telling yourself that the destination is peaceful, beautiful, enriching, in ways that the journey is not? What if everything you’re looking forward to in that destination is already traveling with you? What if whatever you’re looking for is already right here, inside you, inside the present moment? Your journey is just the movement of your body and consciousness through space and time toward one destination after the other. You’re driving in the car toward a yoga retreat. The yoga retreat is the destination. Once you’re at the yoga retreat, then you’re journeying between your bed and the kitchen, then to the yoga studio, then down the forest path. Little destinations inside your bigger destination. Your entire day is comprised of journeys and destinations. The question then is not whether you are journey or arriving. The question is how are you journeying and how are you arriving. Are you full here, engaged with each part of the living process?

If you have a moment to jump down an eloquent well curated rabbit hole, read these blog posts from Brain Pickings (see links below). They shed light on the topic of journeying from a slightly different angle. This first article is a reminder of how we love. Can you bring this loving quality to every part of your life; the journey and the destination? How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing” This second article is a reminder of how we try to segment our lives, organize ourselves into pieces. We divide ourselves into a person who works, a person who loves, a person who plays. So many sides of us. Of course we go crazy if we’re so divided, it’s multitasking constantly. Remember that you are one being, one dynamic whole, a galaxy of dancing stars that are ONE. Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Fulfillment Beyond the Limiting Notion of Work/Life Balance

What can you do with your talents, your resources, your passions, your skills so you can help uplift other people when you hear their needs? Today, I’m thrilled to use my skills as a composer, music producer, songwriter, to play with sounds and explore this idea of journeying and arriving in the present moment as we travel to a destination. A life of constant journeying and constant arriving. Let’s use musical creativity as as playground. Listen to this new episode of The Cha Wilde Show if you’re on your journey of learning how to enjoy the journey.

what to do now?
check out my newest paintings — I just turned them into yoga leggings you can buy in my online shop!

LOVE,
CHA🍍WILDE

Wake Up Your Second Chakra with a Lawn Mower, Life is Always Just Life

Hey friends :) This morning I recorded a new episode for you showcasing how low, deep, bass, sounds felt in the lowest parts of our human bodies (in chakra terms, these low frequency sounds are stimulating energy movement in the first (root) chakra and the second (sacral) chakra. If you want to learn about chakras, read Western Body, Eastern Mind — it’s the best books I’ve found so far on this subject. These sounds we’re playing with today are growls, grinding, crunching, guttural, boom, stomp sounds that wake up our physicality, animalistic feelings, sexuality, tribalness, make you feel connected to earth. If you want to start exploring cool sounds for yourself and get obsessed with sound play like me, get a subscription to Splice. If you really want a taste of some monster bass music created by adorably sexy badass women, check out Whipped Cream and CRAY. Especially Whipped Cream. She’s inspiring me so much right now — I want to learn how to create sounds like hers, like smooth thunder.

In this episode we also create the sound of a lawn mover, with the frequencies turned up, slightly distorted, panning from the left to the right speaker, with a cello over the top and the sound of a bird chirping…just so I could prove to you that I can create any random ass sound in the universe — a demonstration of how unlimited we are in making electronic music, thus my obsession. So, I’m sorry guitar, I love you but you just can’t do everything I need you to do. It’s not you, it’s me. My need for fresh sounds is just too intense for one instrument. ;)

The lyrics in this episode were drawn from this “Letter from God” in my journal — see image below. I started writing ‘Letters from God’ in my journal as a way to speak to myself in a wiser, chiller, less stressed out or biased voice. I wanted to hear praise and love coming to me from somewhere outside myself. And yet, since I’m writing these letters, this message is coming from within me. It’s been a beautiful project that I’ve worked on now for months and every time I finish a letter, I look back in a little surprise realizing I almost have no recollection of what I wrote, it felt like I was just listening through the paper and hearing what I most needed to hear. A gift to myself. Do it.

And so we meet again, you beautiful mischievous creature,
Can you tell by your actions, using courage take care,
You'll feel your best, when the stories in your head,
Every time you say no, you become stronger
Movements are slow, movements are slow
Every time you say no, you become stronger,
Moments are slow, movements are slow.
You've been doubting yourself, every turn, every step
It's the doubts that destroy you,
Do not forget.
You have many things to do and enjoy.
Your intention can carry them all with love.
Life is always just life. x4
The more still you become, around you will move.
Stay in your center, stay in your center, Move slow.
Life is always just life. Always just life.

“When creating music, let your songs grow in the direction that feels good. Same in life. Grow in the direction that feels good.”

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Once you finish listening to my new podcast episode, if you need something else to do, watch the Our Plant: Behind the Scenes documentary on Netflix. Warning, heartstring pulling will happen and help you believe in climate change (if you’re not already convinced), as you watch walruses committing stupid suicide, jumping off cliffs. Christ this is depressing.

Want something more uplifting? — Pick up some pro-tips of creating a successful business, listen to Entrepreneur on Fire, hosted by John Lee Dumas who will drill into your head that FOCUS stands for “Follow One Course Until Success”.

LOVE,
CHA🍍WILDE

The First Guests on the The Cha Wilde Show: Heather Thomas and Emily McVicker

3. Heather Thomas, Big Dreams and Funky Drums

Heather's funky fingers are on my drum pad in this episode. In between making beats, we discussed her plan to fall in love with Elon Musk, part of her larger plan to get to the moon and play drums in space. ;) We researched the Golden Record out there in space and brainstormed what kind of music we would sing on the moon (since the entire world will be watching that show). Heather gives us a lesson on the different parts of a drum set and how they’re used to create different genres of music. We get all excited about how awesome Ableton is (better than other DAWS, yes!?), and of course (because it’s Heather Thomas) we discuss the importance of facing your fears, journaling and challenging yourself to grow. Plus we get to hear about Heather's big adventure; she's dropping everything and heading around the country on a DIY music tour in 2020. Every month she’s in a different city, for the entire month - performing, teaching, building a band, recording. Dope. Heather Thomas: https://www.heatherthomasmusic.com/

4. Emily McVicker, Underwater Mermaid Rave

Once you write a song about a baby mermaid and condoms in the ocean, you’re probably going to be haunted by this for life. At least, I’m probably never going to not think of mermaids when I hear the name “Emily McVicker”. This delightful human is a beatbox machine and she spit some beats (and probably some spit) into my new Aston microphone inside the purple Halo vocal booth in my studio! I found a bunch of water and ocean sounds (it’s bizarre what sounds you find when you search for ‘mermaid’) and Emily and I talked about raves (why she doesn’t go), making Christmas songs (or not) based on our past religious experiences and current spirituality, how promoting other people really helps promote yourself and how building a community is the best thing you can do for your music career, and of course, Harry Potter…if we were teachers at Hogwarts…what would we teach? Emily McVicker: http://www.emilymcvicker.com/

Here’s the song that popped out of Emily’s episode. This is just a draft (#25) of what we worked on. Emily is the beatbox beat in the back and I messed around with vocals until my mind got all mussy and I had to step away. I enjoy the beginning of this song right now but then it just gets repetitive and boring. To develop it into a full blown song we’re going to need to invest a lot more time to give it some structure and meaningful content. I’m really excited by the introduction of beatboxing, real beatboxing, not just my fake beatboxing. Emily can actually beatbox out of her mouth. When you hear my songs, it only sounds like I’m beatboxing because I arrange clips of my vocals into cool patterns. haha Emily’s main tip for being a good professional beatboxer is that you need to make it feel good. Everyone is capable of making the sounds with their mouth, she says, but to be a good beatboxer you need to intuitively feel out the good rhythm that you’re creating with those sounds. Sounds like a concept that is valid across all music.

I threw Emily and Heather on my Ableton Live Push 2 pad and both of them had fun playing with it but admitted they didn’t know what they were doing. I was curious to see how these two artists, who are both practicing acoustic instruments but dabble in electronic looping and drumpads, would adapt in my studio. I feel most enlightened, not by what they played on the pad, but HOW they played. Seeing them experiment, be silly, and not have any fear of pushing buttons they aren’t familiar with, was a beautiful reminder of how liberating it is to be in the company of a person creating with joy, without self-consciousness, just trying it out. After recording both of these sessions, I noticed my own confidence boost up, I’m suddenly making weird sounds out my mouth and breaking into random little songs, feeling less inhibited as I improvise lyrics in front of other people. I didn’t try to change myself, I just witness a shift take place. My brain put it together, by watching two women sing silly and free before my eyes, something inside me understood how that was done and started exhibiting that behavior too. Everybody is rubbing off on you so surround yourself with people who act more the way you want to act than you do.

“The ultimate distinction you make is between yourself and the world. There is the inside (your subjective experience) and there is the outside. But every time you learn something, your brain is altered as new connections are formed. Your experience of something that occurs in the world physically alters your brain. The boundaries between you and the world are much more fluid than you might imagine.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

Thank you Emily & Heather for joining me in the studio and being silly.
LOVE,
CHA🍍WILDE

The Cha Wilde Show 2: Sparkles on My Face, All I Wanna Do is Be Naughty, Creating a Christmas Song

Santa’s Elves just dropped acid in the toy shop and now they’re raving at the North Pole. In this episode we're making an EDM Christmas song from scratch using sound samples of toys, elves, jingle bells, magical wind and all the sounds that remind us of the holidays. As a self-proclaimed Grinchy-poo and naughty-lover, I never thought I would make a Christmas song (cringe) but I surprised myself. By facing this challenge, I remembered how life must be performed with your own twist. I had zero interest in producing a traditional religious Christmas song. I felt blocked and uninspired until I really tapped into what I have fun doing in the holidays. What makes a grinch love Christmas? I threw the judgement out the window and had fun being naughty, spicy and playful about Christmas. I wrote a Christmas song about fucking around on Christmas and not following the rules. I imagined myself dancing around naked, wearing sparkles, flirting with people at holiday parties, and dropping "magical substances" in people's drinks to liven up the party. Long story short, I wrote a song about elves dropping acid in the toy shop at the North Pole and throwing a rave. ha! Enjoy :) The finished song "Sparkles on My Face" is at the end of this episode and you can also listen to it here on my website.

LYRICS

i could sing about the elves
all the toys they keep on shelves
all the things my mama taught me


i could sing about the twelves
all the joys of sheep themselves
all the kings and what they brought thee

i could sing about the bells
how snowflakes are like ourselves
all the pretty things you bought me

i could sing about the spells
all the cakes and spicy smells
how the cracker bonbon shot me

but all i wanna do is be naughty, naughty

i wanna put sparkles on my face
tell bing crosby to turn up the bass
trade my ugly sweater for a little red lace
drop the f-bomb when it my turn to say grace


i wanna paint my toes hot pink
leave all the dishes staked in the sink
dance around naked in a vintage mink
sprinkling magic into everybody's drink

if anybody catches me i'll wink

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FROM THE DESK OF CHA WILDE

I rebelled against the very notion of composing a Christmas song but let this be a lesson to us all that gems are hidden inside the rocks under which we find ourselves most squished. The dance beat that I crafted in this Christmas song has filled me with immeasurable joy and I've been headbanging in the car with no end. I’m actually looking forward to next Christmas so I can play this song for everyone again and again and so we can live up to the lyrics. This means that come Decemeber you and I shall slide into some red lingerie, pull a furry mink coat over our bare naked shoulders, smear glitter across our cheeks and dancing around our houses getting everyone as high (on drugs or life) as possible. Normally, I would just straight up cheer for drugs but truth be told, I'm coming down. This holiday season, I partied like usual and ended up in the valley of the shadow of death. Age and enough experience has got me feeling way to depressed after the parties these days and my enthusiasm for making music and building a powerful career that can carry that music around the globe is winning out. I'd rather protect my energy and health so I can make more sick beats. I've been going to yoga super regularly (my 31st birthday gift to myself was a daily yoga practice) and so I'm feeling amazingly connected to my body because of this and less willing to compromise these feel good for a high. The highs are getting way high and they're getting matched with way lows. So balancing out sounds less sexy but it feels sexier than ever. Trust me, I'm the most unfuckable unsexy uncool pathetic version of myself when I’m curled up like a moist rotting sea urchin on my bedroom floor, wrapped in a post shower towel of tears, wondering what the fuck I'm doing with my life…on the come down of sickness, depression, self doubt yuck. So yah, at least for now, I'll be leaving the highs to the cheeky North Pole elves in this Christmas song. And again I say how much fun I had creating a song which has allowed me to embrace my own version of Christmas. Instead of complaining about stuff, we always have the option to take ownership. Stop being a victim! If you usually whine about Christmas, finish this sentence…”Christmas would be amazing if everybody did ___.” My answer: Christmas would be way more amazing if everybody wore glitter and we danced around the house naked in giant furry coats dancing to my new Christmas song, “Sparkles on my Face”. Am I right?! Also, now I’m totally wondering if I should change the song’s name to “I Just Wanna Be Naughty” which might fit the vibe better.

What do you think?
Which song title do you prefer?

A) Sparkles on My Face

B) I Just Want to Be Naughty

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The Cha Wilde Show 1: Like a Bird I've Flown Away, Producing a Song Together in My Studio for the First Time

LYRICS

There was a time when I couldn’t believe you
There was a time when I couldn’t leave you
There was a time when I couldn’t see you
There was a time when I wanted to be you