Finding Creativity in Nature, Music, and Art (ft. Evalina)
Welcome everybody to the Creator's Table podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Watson, and we're here at Owl Radio recording with Evelina. Hello. Run off the buzz. Hey.
Tyler:It lives lives and breathes another day. How are you doing today?
Evalina:I'm doing good. I had a nice late start. I wrote an entire paper, actually, this morning.
Tyler:Oh, is it due tonight?
Evalina:Yes.
Tyler:There you go. You got it done. Yes. No eleven.
Evalina:Actually, I had to write another one yesterday too for the same class.
Tyler:Now, is this, like, procrastinating?
Evalina:Partially, yeah. Yeah. But, like, being an anthropology major, like, all you do really is write. So, I think I've written, like, 55 pages of papers within the last two
Tyler:weeks. Wow. Okay. 55 pages. Yeah.
Tyler:I I you know, I'm gonna be honest. I've never got I I feel like I can do writing really well, and I always get a good grade, but I just don't enjoy it.
Evalina:Yeah, it's a lot. It's better than a test, though.
Tyler:Okay. Well, yeah. I will write five papers before I take one exam.
Evalina:Gladly. I'm saying.
Tyler:So you do music. Do you want to give us a little introduction on yourself and kind of like where you got started? What's your genre? What's your vibe? You want to tell us about that?
Evalina:Yeah. Yeah, I write music. I like to dabble in a lot of forms of art, so I like drawing and sketching, painting, all that kind of stuff. Both of my roommates and best friends are art majors, so I'm just always
Tyler:So you're the black sheep of the room, right?
Evalina:No, they're actually both musicians, too.
Tyler:Oh, okay. But you're you're not an art major.
Evalina:I'm not an art major. That's true.
Tyler:What's your
Evalina:major? Anthropology. The focus in archaeology.
Tyler:Okay. Yeah. Okay. So that and music, do those go well together?
Evalina:Yeah, they actually really do. I'm in this field school class that's, like, connected to KSU, and we'll go to this prehistoric site and dig and all that kind of stuff. And it's, like, super rich in artifacts. And anthropology is the study of humans, so, like, past, present, and potential future. So,
Tyler:like Okay.
Evalina:It's just, like, everything I pull out of the ground is some form of art, and it's really cool to, like, learn the culture and all that kind of stuff.
Tyler:Yeah, that would be really cool. Do you take some inspiration from this from, like, for when you, like, make your songs and stuff like that, make your music?
Evalina:Yeah, I guess so. It's just, it's a very, like, grounding practice.
Tyler:Right.
Evalina:So, like, it just, it's good at, like, reminding yourself that, like, everything has been experienced before and you're not alone in that Right.
Tyler:Yeah. Right. That makes sense. That makes sense.
Evalina:Yeah.
Tyler:So, you had your first album, I wanna say, semi recently. Do you want to tell us about your first album and when you kind of came out with that?
Evalina:So I wrote it in high school.
Tyler:Okay.
Evalina:And a lot of my songs were written in high school. I kind of went, like, on a, like, huge splurge and wrote, like, I think, like, 70 songs.
Tyler:Oh, wow. Yeah. 70. How many of those do you think, in a good way, were, like, your gold ones? Like, how many were, like, 70, and then how many were, like,
Evalina:these Right, the ones I wanna actually record?
Tyler:Right.
Evalina:I'd say, like, maybe 35 or 40. Okay. Yeah.
Tyler:Half or more. That's pretty Yeah. I would say, yeah.
Evalina:But I just, yeah, I started writing a little untraditionally. I didn't know how to play the guitar.
Tyler:Oh. And I
Evalina:didn't know how to play any instruments, actually, at all.
Tyler:And when did you pick up guitar?
Evalina:I picked it up when I went to college. So I Really? Yeah. I, like, fully recorded that entire EP and wrote all the songs and stuff without a guitar, which my dad's a musician. Mhmm.
Evalina:So I kinda just, like he has perfect pitch.
Tyler:So Oh, yeah.
Evalina:I think yeah. So I would, like, come to him, bring him the melody and, like, the lyrics, and then he would just add the guitar. Like, whatever I wanted, he would add it. Like, he knew exactly what I needed, which was amazing, so
Tyler:Yeah, so, like, I I feel like that's interesting. I feel like a lot of some musicians kind of naturally pick up writing songs and songwriting because maybe they knew how to write or, you know, play an instrument or something like that. So starting it opposite, was that was that difficult to you to, I guess, to just, like, kind of did you know how to write music, like, on, like, notes and stuff like that, music notes, or?
Evalina:I took chorus in middle school, but the high school that I went to didn't have any arts program.
Tyler:Really?
Evalina:It was, yeah, it was a fully job focused school, so no arts, no band, no theater.
Tyler:So like welding and like No,
Evalina:more like law, medical, cyber security Oh. Stuff like that, yeah. No, so I just like, I knew a little bit from chorus and, like, what sounded right and what didn't. And then I kinda just, like I only learned how to, like, write my music down, like, chord wise
Tyler:Right.
Evalina:When I started learning guitar.
Tyler:Right. Yeah. Did you take any classes at KSU for that?
Evalina:No, I didn't.
Tyler:No? No? Yeah.
Evalina:I came in with a different major, so a lot of my, like, fun elective classes that I got would have been able to choose, like, for whatever are taken up because I switched majors.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. It's it's like it's fun when it's, like, nice when you're in that, like, that general education classes, and then you're kind of just like, I'm just goofing off.
Evalina:Yeah. Have fun. Easy.
Tyler:And then you get in your major classes, like, Okay, I've got to lock in.
Evalina:Bro, for real, taking all major classes now, and that's why I had to write 55 pages.
Tyler:Oh, Yeah.
Evalina:That was bad.
Tyler:That makes sense. Now, do you have any favorite, like, so obviously, like, were you a big music lover, like, going into high school? Like, you got some favorite artists you want to share with us?
Evalina:Oh, yeah. I I think my top, like, my top band is definitely Radiohead. I just Oh. I really like how they play with sound. Right.
Evalina:And, like, I don't know. They keep, like, simple lyrics very and make it complex with the sound that they bring, which I really like. But, like, growing up, I was like a crazy beetle head.
Tyler:Really? Yeah. Everybody kinda a lot of people were like, hey, you're not a bruised apple, I guess, right? To Beatles, like, I had a Beatles face.
Evalina:Oh, yeah. I mean, it was definitely an obsession, actually. Like, I only listened to the Beatles for, like, the first two years I had access to music on my phone.
Tyler:What's the best Beatles song?
Evalina:I don't know. Maybe across the universe.
Tyler:Okay. I don't know that. The What? Yeah, I don't. I say, okay, I didn't have a crazy Beatles face.
Tyler:I was like, oh, they're fun.
Evalina:Well, well.
Tyler:I know, you kind of exposed me there. Who's the best Beatle?
Evalina:Paul McCartney.
Tyler:Paul McCartney? That's the right answer. Yeah. I mean, George Harrison's pretty good, though.
Evalina:I like George Harrison, too.
Tyler:He's, like, my number two. He's, like, the underrated one.
Evalina:I agree.
Tyler:Right.
Evalina:Have you seen the picture of them, like, signing to dismantle the Beatles?
Tyler:Really?
Evalina:Yeah. They they're like took a photo and like Paul McCartney is crying. John Leonard is like or John Leonard. John Lennon is like, you know, yeah, whatever. And then George Harrison's just like celebrating in the back.
Evalina:It was so done.
Tyler:That kind of they're very, like, unique, especially when they went to go do their own music and stuff like that, like, John Lennon, I didn't really like a lot of John Lennon's stuff on his own, I really didn't.
Evalina:Yeah, yeah.
Tyler:I hate this Christmas song. I mean, I really don't like that
Evalina:Christmas Everyone's heads just turn.
Tyler:I know, I get a lot I probably get hate for that, but I don't think it's a Christmas song.
Evalina:Very interesting take.
Tyler:Yes. I hear it come on, and it was just like, My holly jolly mood is ruined. Santa's not coming anymore. You also love the Muppets. Do you like the Muppets?
Evalina:I do.
Tyler:Yeah? You're gonna sing you should sing Man or Muppet for
Evalina:Where did you find that? You just you just there.
Tyler:It's just it's just there. I feel like you make that public. Yeah. Are you ashamed of liking the Muppets? No.
Tyler:Okay.
Evalina:I can't be. I love the Muppet movie. I almost sang Man or Muppet for the talent show in high school.
Tyler:Oh, we're gonna get you back for a video of you singing Man or Muppet.
Evalina:I will be back. You will I will belt. Please, I would love that. Yeah, I also love Fraggle Rock. I Spider Man single.
Tyler:Jim Henson.
Evalina:Really good, yes.
Tyler:What's your favorite Jim Henson, like, production, I guess?
Evalina:Probably Fraggle Rock.
Tyler:Fraggle Rock.
Evalina:Or yeah. But I I really like what he did with the labyrinth too. Yeah. And it's, like, dark fantasy, it's just like,
Tyler:woah. The crystal, Did you though?
Evalina:Yes, I did. Really do love the dark crystal, too.
Tyler:Dark crystals really do.
Evalina:I just I like, like, I like traditional, like, art forms like that. Like, you have to get really creative with puppetry, puppetry, you know?
Tyler:Right, right.
Evalina:And when I was, like, a kid, I went to the Atlanta Puppetry Center.
Tyler:Right, right.
Evalina:And I was just like, that was it. I was done.
Tyler:So what are, like, your favorite arts art things to dabble in? So you like music, but clearly you seem to, like, kinda like it all, but what are, like, your I go tos
Evalina:like, I like, like, just, like, nonsensical drawing, kind of, so, like, you don't know where you're gonna draw yet, you just kinda do.
Tyler:Right, We
Evalina:have a lot of art nights at my apartment because art majors. They're, you know, working on homework or whatever, and it's, like, incredible. They're so talented.
Tyler:Right, right.
Evalina:And then I'm just like, la la la, doodling in the back.
Tyler:You should, like, make a ton of paintings. You always should all make paintings for, like, your your place and then just decorate the whole thing.
Evalina:Dude, it's actually covered. It's, like, these walls, but all original art. That's awesome. Yeah, it's awesome. I love my apartment.
Tyler:Yeah, I'm kind of, I'm kind of, I'm kind of, like, unbearable with artists. If I know an artist, I'm gonna be like, Okay, I need you to draw stuff for me, like, all the time.
Evalina:I'm like I've been told that they are told that a lot.
Tyler:Yeah. Okay, well, I'm gonna be that person, so they probably should stay away from me, because if I know they do art, then I'm gonna be like, You should draw this, and then give that to me.
Evalina:Hey. I mean, if you commission them, you pay them.
Tyler:I actually did pay for a painting one time. Was a bear holding a guitar in the forest, and he's, like, playing it, and then there's, like, a bunny that's just kind of, like, chilling out on the side.
Evalina:That's epic. Yeah. You should put that on, like, a shirt. Yeah, I'll put it Sell it.
Tyler:It's right here. I wonder if I maybe I can sell it. Maybe I can. Can you draw me?
Evalina:Have the can I draw you?
Tyler:Yeah.
Evalina:Sure. Yeah, I could draw you later.
Tyler:Would you draw me like a caricature, or would you, like, make me look like
Evalina:Well, I actually well, yeah, I can't draw, like, you realistically. Oh. But I can draw however it comes to mind.
Tyler:No, I'm just be like, Oh, okay. Never mind. Oh, well. I don't know. Speaking of drawing, have you looked at our table yet?
Evalina:I know. I love it.
Tyler:What's your favorite? What do you like on the table so far?
Evalina:Well, I did see the immediate radio head. Course. I really like the fish. I just I love fish.
Tyler:Right. So you know who Manny Yes,
Evalina:I know Manny. I love Manny.
Tyler:I just realized, like, the people on the podcast here are probably so annoyed because every single time a guest comes in, they're like, Look, it's Manny. And it's like, oh, they're probably so, so Dude,
Evalina:Manny, loaded diaper, we've got the whole squad here.
Tyler:Oh, we got Greg.
Evalina:Yes, Greg.
Tyler:And then there's like, really short Greg. Beatles? Yeah. Yellow Submarine. There's a Pikachu there.
Tyler:There's actually me right there.
Evalina:Hey, so I don't even need to draw you.
Tyler:Well, yeah, you do.
Evalina:Okay.
Tyler:That's kinda like, we don't do this for free, come on.
Evalina:It's my payment.
Tyler:We gotta make money somehow, okay? We're starving artists in here. Oh, for real. So, have you been able to do any live performances yet? Have you had that opportunity?
Evalina:Yeah, I actually played at the gazebo
Tyler:Right for
Evalina:Months ago for the, I think it was called So Totally Cool Awesome.
Tyler:Oh, with the Musicians Union? Yeah, yeah. Oh, then I did see you there. Yeah. I knew I did.
Evalina:It was really fun. I just play at, like, a lot of open mics.
Tyler:Right, right.
Evalina:Yeah.
Tyler:When did you start pursuing, like, public, you know, putting your music out there? And then when did you start to get that first good feedback from people?
Evalina:So my dad's a musician, and he plays a lot, like, if he wanted or if he could, he would play, like, every night out. And he's like, I, growing up, like, surrounded by local musicians. Mhmm. And I I just love, like, the local culture here and like Just how positive everybody is and yeah all that kind of stuff so like just growing up with all that stuff I was very comfortable in the scene and then when my I showed my dad my song first song He helped me bring chords behind it and then he was like, okay. We're gonna go to the first place that I ever played and
Tyler:and where was it?
Evalina:Don't remember what it was called I know that the second time I ever played is called Dylan's a bar called But it was just like, you know, a restaurant with a stage in the corner, And I think it was, like, it was really important for me to go. So obviously, I was nervous. It was in high school.
Tyler:Right. Right.
Evalina:And very, like, thinking a lot about other people's perceptions and so on. But, like, once you start playing, you realize that nobody cares. Yeah. No one's paying attention that bad. No one's gonna remember that one hiccup you had for the rest of their lives.
Evalina:Like, it's just just play and share your music, and if people enjoy it, they enjoy it.
Tyler:Yeah, and they might not have, you know, gotten up and immediately, like, started yelling at you, is amazing. But I mean, people, maybe they heard you and they just, like, subconsciously were like, I'm enjoying this more now.
Evalina:Yeah, somebody gave me a tip. I still have the $5.
Tyler:Did you keep it?
Evalina:Yes, my first ever tip.
Tyler:Your first money that you ever made?
Evalina:Yeah.
Tyler:Hopefully, like, another million after that, hopefully.
Evalina:Well, maybe.
Tyler:Maybe. Maybe. And hopefully, get a piece of I'm kidding.
Evalina:Right, yeah.
Tyler:Give me
Evalina:a percentage.
Tyler:But do you so music, like, making music, playing music is kind of all, maybe not new to you now, but it's still kind of through that operating experience for you. So what is your process? Are you the type to where you could just write music anywhere? Or are you just like, I can only write music when I'm in the comfort of my closet?
Evalina:Right. Think I write better alone.
Tyler:Right.
Evalina:Just so I can, like, put myself in that space, but me being alone now is like, you know, you make strong friendships and when you're like in a room with them, it's really not like They're there. You're like you're not thinking about the fact that they're there and all that kind of stuff like you're just so
Tyler:comfortable right
Evalina:now I can like write music with my friends there and all that kind of stuff, but I think like in times of like a lot of emotional Something very emotional going on is when I write the best just because kind of like a Way for me to like I don't know get that out of myself and I learn like a lot through What I write like I might not realize that I feel a certain way until the lyrics are out and then I listen to the music again and I'm like, oh,
Tyler:shoot. Right.
Evalina:Like, that is how I'm feeling actually. But I'll notice, like, a lot of my lyrics will just reflect how what I'm going through in the moment. But I like, sometimes, I'm just like, oh, I'm gonna write a song today, and then I do. So, I don't know, it's like sporadic.
Tyler:Yeah, it's like, when it comes to you naturally.
Evalina:Yeah. You know, I
Tyler:hear, like, making stuff like that happen. Yeah. You know? I feel like it'd be hard to just sit down and be like, I have to write something today. You know?
Evalina:Yeah. It's important, like do you know who Adrian Linker is?
Tyler:I don't.
Evalina:Okay. They know who it is. They know who she is. She does solo work, but she's also in the band Big Thief, who I love. And I took her writing class with my dad Really?
Evalina:Actually. Yeah. It was awesome. And she's, like, so down to earth, like, super cool chill hippie and she's talking about like how important it is to for her to write every single day like even if it's not a song or anything like that just to like continuously like feed your creative your creative, like, juices, like Yeah. Especially when it comes to writing because you can, like, build the way that you write and, like, the melody changes and all that kind of stuff differently.
Evalina:So think writing every day is important, but I also don't.
Tyler:Yeah, no, writing every day would be difficult. But yeah, you have to keep your mind rolling, you have to keep the little hamster in your head, like spinning the wheel and stuff like that. Exactly. Do you have other little creative things you do to keep it going? Where do you go when you're in search for inspiration?
Evalina:Oh, nature. Nature? Yeah. Nature, 100%. My apartment has, like, a really beautiful view of a creek.
Tyler:Oh, really?
Evalina:Yeah. So I, like, love just sitting outside and just, like, listening to the frogs croak and watching the wind. But if I'm ever, like I think in any scenario, if I need inspiration at all, I'll just go outside and take a walk, you know?
Tyler:Like, Right.
Evalina:Just look around and, like, ground yourself, kinda. Touch grass. Yeah,
Tyler:touch grass, yeah. Have your little, like, curl in on a banjo in the log in the creek
Evalina:Right, exactly.
Tyler:For the moment, and you're writing a song. Yeah. Can you please do that? I would help do that music video.
Evalina:I would love to do that. I've been talking to my music manager about that.
Tyler:About doing what we're saying right now?
Evalina:Yes. Oh. Yes.
Tyler:We can collaborate.
Evalina:Yeah. And
Tyler:we'll make this happen.
Evalina:Yeah. I actually I went to another music It's like a musician's camp. It's called Sad Song Summer Camp.
Tyler:Sad Song Summer Camp? Yes.
Evalina:Okay. In New York. I sit by the milk carton kids, and they're like a like a indie folk band. And it just, like, brought together a bunch of like folk artists and They had this huge like Plot of land that's usually for like weddings, so it was all like outdoors basically and it was gorgeous and that was the first time I'd actually gone outside, sat next to a creek, and wrote a song.
Tyler:That sounds very Yeah, that does sound very inspiring.
Evalina:Yeah, it was nice. Yeah. It was nice.
Tyler:Would you go Maybe when you become super successful, you just buy some plot of land and like, go to nowhere, like, little, like, fountain.
Evalina:Oh my god. Yes. Yeah? I think, like, I wanna, like okay, my dream retirement plan is, like, go to Alaska, build a cabin.
Tyler:By hand?
Evalina:By hand.
Tyler:Of course.
Evalina:And I watch a lot of, like, Alone, so I'm locked in, you know?
Tyler:Yeah, you know how to survive.
Evalina:Right, exactly.
Tyler:That's actually that's actually I would love I love the videos where there are time lapse people building cabins.
Evalina:Oh my god. Yeah, and like Outdoor Boys.
Tyler:Yeah. Yeah. Those are so Yeah.
Evalina:Yeah. It's really like inspiring and really cool and like just another like grounding practice, but I have a long ways to go. I'm going backpacking soon.
Tyler:Yeah. Were you Yeah. You doing, like, the Appalachian Trail? Or
Evalina:No. I'm gonna go to Los yeah. No. San Francisco. Flying into San Francisco, and then me and my friends are gonna backpack up from there to, like, across, I guess, on the side of the beach.
Tyler:Okay, yeah.
Evalina:And then, like, hike through Myrrh Woods for a bit.
Tyler:I've been there. It's so pretty.
Evalina:I love Myrrh Woods.
Tyler:It's so It's
Evalina:The Redwoods.
Tyler:That's where they filmed Return of the Jedi, right?
Evalina:Yes. And also Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Tyler:Really?
Evalina:Yeah.
Tyler:Okay.
Evalina:Yeah. I just watched that movie. I love it. I don't know why I didn't watch it
Tyler:I've seen that too.
Evalina:Yeah. That was really good.
Tyler:Yeah. That was actually a pretty good movie,
Evalina:I'm They, be like, take over Mer Woods. Yeah.
Tyler:It's sad. I thought it was just where, like, Star Wars was. Don't know.
Evalina:That's Yeah. Oh, dude. Did you play the Star Wars games, like Battlefront?
Tyler:Oh, yes.
Evalina:Two? Yeah.
Tyler:Yes. Did you
Evalina:which one did you like more?
Tyler:Battlefront one or Battlefront two?
Evalina:Yeah.
Tyler:Probably I don't know, I don't remember them very well. Battlefront two was good, but, like, Battlefront one was more basic.
Evalina:Right, like nostalgic.
Tyler:Yeah, it was more like the main characters, I guess, you know what I mean?
Evalina:Yeah, yeah. Were you? We've got some opinions.
Tyler:What was your opinion?
Evalina:Two? Two.
Tyler:I don't know, I feel like it's always weird to say the second one's better to me, so like, oh, okay. You know what I mean?
Evalina:Yeah, I actually, Hot Take liked the first one more, and I think A loser. I don't remember why, but I remember my disdain, and that's I
Tyler:think it's the, like, I think it's, like, it was simp it was more simple. It was there was less to it, there was less maps, there was less characters, it was just very simple.
Evalina:Like, there's one, I guess, like, map that's, like, all snow, and then when you walk through the snow, underneath, it's like red dust. So like, it just brings up all the red dust. It's gorgeous. Isn't that from
Tyler:The Last Jedi? Am I right?
Evalina:Pretty sure. Think it is, yeah. Yeah.
Tyler:How how are you on your Star Wars lore?
Evalina:Not that good. Okay. Yeah, just played the games.
Tyler:I wish I could quiz you. Did you play LEGO Star Wars?
Evalina:I did. Yeah.
Tyler:Best game ever.
Evalina:I bought all of the LEGO Star Wars on Steam for, like Oh. $5. Really? All of them That's for $5.02. Yeah.
Evalina:Was a great deal, but none of them work.
Tyler:None of them work?
Evalina:They all crash. It's, like, all in the comments and stuff. It's sad.
Tyler:Well, sucks. Why are they saying
Evalina:that I with don't know. That's really interesting. I'm just glad I have it, you know?
Tyler:Yeah, you get to experience it.
Evalina:Yeah. Yeah. Well,
Tyler:other than that, you also have what was I going to say? So how many songs have you released at this point? How many songs have you released, and how many do you have coming up?
Evalina:I have five released now.
Tyler:Okay.
Evalina:Again, all in high school. So I've got like, I wrote, like, the 70 songs in high school. I think now I've got, like, 90.
Tyler:90.
Evalina:Jeez. Yeah. So I have a lot of I think, like, the the only reason I'm not recording them all is because I can't afford it.
Tyler:Yeah. How is how is that, like, cost wise? Like, how much does it cost to really get a studio space to do that?
Evalina:It depends. Mhmm. So, like I mean, there is a way for you to learn how to do it on your own and stuff like that. It's just I live in an apartment, so it's not like I have a good, quiet space
Tyler:Right, right.
Evalina:To develop into a studio. But thankfully, again, my dad's a musician, so he knows a lot of people that are recording
Tyler:And he can pull some strings.
Evalina:And stuff, yeah. So he's been doing that for me a lot, which has been really nice. But I had I was working with a band for a while that actually live in my old townhouse, and they made it into a studio.
Tyler:That's awesome.
Evalina:Yeah. So sick. So they actually live fifteen minutes from here. Do you know Run, Katie, Run?
Tyler:I don't. I'm sure
Evalina:other They're people like a local band, but they're more modern, country folk ish mix.
Tyler:Maybe we need to have them next?
Evalina:Yeah.
Tyler:Perhaps?
Evalina:Sure. They'd But be super they were helping me out, and then just had to, you know, it's a lot of hopping around. Yeah. Musicians are.
Tyler:And what is that, like, time in the studio like? Like, are are you guys, like, working nonstop on one song? Does it take a long time to, like, really record the song and get it right?
Evalina:Yeah. I mean, the first time I did it took forever because I didn't know what the process is really like and then it was my dad's best friend. That was a burning and he's awesome. Like I grew up with him. So like we would just low key like hang out half the time.
Tyler:I was like half the time you're just sitting there talking
Evalina:right exactly so like but it's a lot of like, you go in there, you get everything set up, you record the like, bare bones basics, right? And then you kind of just build on top of it. Mhmm. So now that I'm recording my next album, it's been a lot quicker just because I know what the process looks like and every every producer has a different process. It's like a lot of repetitive like repetition like you're listening to yourself over and over and over again and like like trying different guitar trying different things you can do with your vocals trying to add things take things away all that kind
Tyler:of stuff.
Evalina:So it's a lot and the whole like I guess thing is like You go in there you make your finished product for that day And you come back like a week later with like completely different ears Listen to it again. You're like gosh
Tyler:like that's terrible. Yeah, We describe the whole thing.
Evalina:Yeah, right. So,
Tyler:you
Evalina:know, it depends. The process depends on how, like, I guess prepared you are.
Tyler:Right, right. If you come in there, like, you know exactly what you're gonna do and you're super like, let's get this done. Yeah, maybe you could get it done in a day.
Evalina:Right. Well, yeah, maybe like two or three days.
Tyler:Okay.
Evalina:I'd say for if you're doing an album, it'll take way longer.
Tyler:Oh, yeah. I would imagine. I've just met some people, and they're like, yeah, I've been in the studio recording this one song for the past week. Was it the week? Yeah.
Tyler:I'm like, dang, So much for the one hit, take, you know, Well, like
Evalina:and the thing is too, right? Like, what if you have a whole backing band?
Tyler:Right. It's a
Evalina:whole other process.
Tyler:Yeah, you got to record all those, make sure you get that right.
Evalina:Doing drums, like, setting up the drum set takes forever.
Tyler:Oh. Because you
Evalina:have to have every mic in the perfect spot and all that kind of stuff, and, like, you can't edit it later if you didn't have it right before.
Tyler:Right, right. Yeah. It's an excruciating process. But worth Yes, it in there
Evalina:it's really fun.
Tyler:Yeah. Oh, you like
Evalina:It's so fun. Yes, I love it.
Tyler:Okay, that's good. Yeah. So you're not just sitting there in the studio, ugh, I've heard my song, like, 2,000,000 times, you know?
Evalina:It's like drawing. Like, you're just drawing with sound.
Tyler:Yeah. That's cool. That's a good analogy. What's our timestamp? Thirty three.
Tyler:Thirty three. I think I think we got a lot out of that.
Evalina:Yeah, we did.
Tyler:Do you feel do you feel like you shared everything you need to share?
Evalina:Sure.
Tyler:Yeah? Yeah. Well, is there, like, any, like, Are there any shoutouts you have? Is there any, like, music you wanna, like Okay, so this is gonna come out, like, this January, so if you have music coming out in January, you might shut down.
Evalina:Probably not. Well No music out in January. It'll take a little longer.
Tyler:That's fair. That's fair.
Evalina:I'll shout out my best friend Brooke. You guys should follow brookiedraws on Instagram. She's incredibly talented and, like, she's insane. She does, like, live portraits. Like, she just she just did a, like, the art market.
Evalina:Uh-huh. And she's doing live portraits of everybody. Nuts. I
Tyler:wish she had gone. I missed it.
Evalina:Dude, so talented. She also has, like she does a bunch of, like, lino cuts and, like, patches and stuff. She's sick.
Tyler:That's awesome.
Evalina:Yeah, so shout out to her. You can follow me on Instagram, leafycoverage on Instagram.
Tyler:Shout out to your dad?
Evalina:Yeah, Time Travel Paradox, my Sweet. Dad's You can follow him on philipstandersmusic on YouTube. Sweet. And he's on Twitch now.
Tyler:He's on Twitch? What does do on Twitch?
Evalina:Livestreams, if you guys, like, ever have requests or anything like that.
Tyler:Does he play games?
Evalina:No. He plays music. Oh.
Tyler:Yeah. I just thought it'd be really funny if it's just him playing COD. Dude. I totally tuned in.
Evalina:Let me let me tune out my dad playing COD. That would be so sick.
Tyler:Dad is awesome, dude.
Evalina:He plays a lot of, like he played Baldur's Gate when it came out. So we were all playing Baldur's Gate for a while. I love Baldur's Gate.
Tyler:Really?
Evalina:Yes. Oh my god. I I think, like, my attention span with video games was, like, not that high. Like, top game I had was, like, twenty five hours in Amori, which is like a because smaller and be games Toby Fox with the music so good But that was like my top like I mean other than like Minecraft.
Tyler:Oh, okay.
Evalina:You can't really record how many hours you have on Minecraft. Like It's, like, forever. Right, yeah. Yeah. That would be crazy.
Evalina:But like, then Baldur's Gate came out, and I think I have, like, three hundred hours on it now.
Tyler:Oh my gosh.
Evalina:Yeah. It's nuts. But Yeah. Yeah, shout out to Baldur's Gate, I guess.
Tyler:I What's funny is, like, with my friends who really like video games, like, I'll tell them, like, the game that I really like, and I'll be like, this is how many hours I have in it.
Evalina:What is it?
Tyler:I I wanna say it's like like, fifteen days or something like that. I don't know the hours, it just shows up as days. What?
Evalina:Oh, no, what's the game?
Tyler:It's Rocket League. Really like Rocket League.
Evalina:Dude, was just going to say my dad plays Rocket League.
Tyler:Oh, God, me and your dad can play Rocket League. Oh, if you're listening to this right now, let's hop on Rocket League later.
Evalina:Dude, and my brother plays it too. He's really good.
Tyler:Shoot. We're He's gonna like trio.
Evalina:What is it? What's the top one? Like, top
Tyler:Oh, the top, like, rank? Yeah. It's like champion or something.
Evalina:Okay. I'm pretty sure he's like whatever is the very, very top he can get, he's one below.
Tyler:Dang.
Evalina:Yeah, bro.
Tyler:I actually don't remember what I am. And that's apparently my favorite game.
Evalina:How many hours do you have? Fifteen days?
Tyler:Fifteen days, whatever that is in hours. That's so yeah Brooke I played sims one time in high school one time. How was it
Evalina:everyone does something different like Some people do the challenges. That's what she did, but I go on there, I make characters, and then I make a really pretty house, and then I stop playing.
Tyler:Do you make, like, people you know?
Evalina:No. That's so weird.
Tyler:I've definitely heard of her. Sorry, just one person on her
Evalina:team. Totally
Tyler:looked a little guilty there. Well, is there anything else you'd like to share before we end things?
Evalina:I guess to whoever's listening, follow your dreams, even if somebody's gonna tell you that you're not gonna make any money because if you're passionate enough, you will. And always be creative. Feed your creativity. If you're okay. A lot of people are like, I tell them I'm a musician, and then they're like, I really wanna learn to play the guitar.
Evalina:I've been wanting for a couple years. Or they're like, oh, I've been wanting to do this for so long, but I just haven't found the time. Just do it.
Tyler:Just do it.
Evalina:Just do it, dude.
Tyler:Stealing that from Nike.
Evalina:Well, yeah. Now we're sponsored from Nike. Yeah.
Tyler:Yeah. I thought it was so funny. Just looked at a pair of
Evalina:Powerade Nike.
Tyler:Powerade of Nike. I was gonna ask you whether your inspiration for the viewers, but you did that. I didn't even have to ask. Thank you guys so much for listening to this episode of the podcast. Go check out Evelina's links in the description of this.
Tyler:And, yeah, other than that
Evalina:Shout out to Creator Sable.
Tyler:Yes. Shout out to Creator Sable. Yeah. Bye, everybody. Have a great day.
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