Chris Cutting on seizing opportunity, keeping focus, cultivating hobbies Soundiron Podcast

In this episode Craig and Nathan interview Chris Cutting - a longtime  beta team composer, musician, and restaurateur. We chat about seizing  opportunities, juggling careers, night owl composing, personal projects  and much more.  

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Podcast notes: 

* (0:00) Introducing Chris Cutting 

* (1:09) Growing up with music 

* (3:19) cirque du soleil music 

* (11:22) Reverse engineering genres 

* (12:53) Attention Economy 

* (14:25) Starting a beta cue 

* (15:20) DAW 

* (18:19) How do you keep focus? 

* (21:17) Managing a restaurant 

* (27:23) Night owl 

* (28:31) Demos with no boundaries 

* (33:29) Future hobbies/interests 

* (35:09) Best advice you've been given? 

* (39:53) Advice to someone starting out 

* (43:11) Collaboration, Oarsmen 

* (45:57) Favorite YouTube channel 

* (48:41) Beers 

* (51:55) What's next? Personal projects 

* (55:30) Questions for N & C 

* (58:03) Biggest musical influences? 

* (1:02:49) Where is the virtual instrument heading? 

* (1:06:18) Sonespheres 4 Direction 

* (1:08:32) Composing with brain activity  

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