045: A Sound Response

Catalyst is a Creative Industries podcast, from Chapman University. Each episode features Chapman students who have completed a Podcasting course through the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries at the university. Students who had no podcasting experience or technical ability in the genre before taking the course were able to contribute all the segments to Catalyst this season with the goal being that they will take this ‘hands-on’ experience and carry it over to the launching of their very own series. Each episode of Season 6 will feature one to two different interviews conducted by CCI students, exploring different aspects of the Creative and Cultural Industries.

Our segment of Catalyst this week is a bit of a family affair when Bella Shegoleff interviews her brother Jason Shegoleff. Jason is a musician, also known as the performer Jason Constant, who has just released his first Album ‘Strove’ in February of 2021.  Bella and Jason take this chance to really explore what drives the creative process as a musician. They discuss how constant exposure to live music in their childhoods by relatives working as musicians seems to have taken the focus and pressure off the technicalities of playing an instrument. Instead, that background has afforded Jason the ability to instead approach music with a focus on aspects such as the texture and layering of the sounds to recreate or manufacture an emotional state. To close Jason expounds on where sees his next career steps being in the world of soundscapes, and how the absence of sound is one of the greatest tools in learning how to wield it.