Adrianne Lenker and Gregory Crewdson on finding fulfillment

In these online 30-minute events, Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, asks each guest a list of simple questions about artistic practice, and the anticipation of an end to the pandemic crisis.
Adrianne Lenker has been writing songs since she was ten years old. Her back story has been well documented in various interviews and profiles for Big Thief over the last five years. Despite, or more likely because of, the constant touring and studio work, the last few years have been some of the most prolific for Lenker as a writer. Songs pop out at soundcheck. They pop out on late night drives between cities. They pop out in green rooms, hotel stairwells, gardens, and kitchens around the world. In the hands of Lenker, songwriting is not an old dead craft. It is alive. It is vital. Following a busy 2019 which saw Big Thief release two critically acclaimed albums, Lenker released her latest solo albums, "songs" and "instrumentals," on October 23, 2020.
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Part of the 2021 reprise of the Yale Photo MFA program’s Pop Up Lecture Series via Zoom, in which Gregory Crewdson, Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, interviews guests on the pandemic crisis and the nature of artistic practice.
Full information available here: www.art.yale.edu/photo-pop-up...

[@edenwylie8917]

i'm so happy to hear her word of advice being unconditional self-acceptance. it's not surprising as her music has already helped so much with my OCD journey, but it's such a beautiful feeling when she confirms that it wasn't just me hearing what i wanted to hear and she really was coming from that place.

[@allyson--]

"If you've lived on this earth & your curiousity is in tact, that's a really amazing success" (26:47)

[@matthewolson469]

COULDN'T AGREE MORE!

[@tyc9909]

what an absolute banger of a line wtf

[@_Seasons]

this is an extremely precious content, thanks for that. I think Adrianne is the perfect image of the Artist we need nowadays. So much introspective, I'd really like to have a talk with her, one day. Also as a musician myself, or at least a person that's hoping on the possibility of doing it as a life job, some of the things she said resonated so much with me that I kinda felt like anxious for how much I felt them deeply, deeply true.

[@rorocio93]

It's very nice to know that there are other people who think like this, as deep and abstract as I do. Words are incredible. Thank you for saying what you think and feel Adrianne

[@Maidream]

so inspiring to hear such stories. Thanks

[@darkdogstudios]

Thank you.

[@ashb3117]

Love love love this

[@terrybeaud9348]

Thank you for sharing through this video. I have seen a glimpse of who you are in your songs, but you have opened the door a little more with this interview. :))

[@PineappleJaggy]

You have awesome interviews!

[@147mastery9]

What a beautiful interview/person. And what a great life advice at the end. Thank you very much for this lovely interview. I loved the questions also. Not the typical predictable questions.

[@e5642]

These events are great

[@zacstaffiere]

I haven't been the same since she asked that light and sound wave question

[@marshalljames2361]

same. Its kinda funny out of context. "can you speed a song up to the speed of light and would it create an image?" lol

[@allyson--]

37:05

[@freyap5390]

I know nothing about physics but light waves are transverse and sound waves are longitudinal, so I assume what Adrianne is proposing wouldn’t be possible but very fascinating nonetheless

[@davidguerre6896]

Naked and Raw is the KEY !!!! I totally agree, like if you listen to Nick drake's music, so raw and sensitive... like a thin truth.. delicate.. fragile.. and yet so powerful, like a Soul in a way.

[@Hello-pl2qe]

Adrianne!

[@Babylasagna123]

She’s so smart WGAT

[@myradioon]

Robbie Basho! Of course she has great deep taste. Great interview.

[@petrasongs]

I started to cry at about 32:08

[@chris-dempsey]

Wished to hear her speak about the imagery in her lyrics… I think that’s what he meant

[@deathchips926]

it was fairly vague, and i think he meant it to be. Visual imagery can also be present in melody, and I think big thief's music is highly visual even outside of the lyricism.

[@chris-dempsey]

@@deathchips926 Yeah, that's a good point. And he may have just meant it to reference how visual imagery influences her songs rather than their presence in them. I just think imagery (in literary terms) is so important to good lyrics... or my favorite ones anyways. It would have been cool to hear that touched on.

[@deathchips926]

For sure, I agree with that!

[@ectoplasma5]

I just thought she is like a female version of Elliott Smith and then she talked about him shortly after that

[@anthonywallace3830]

Same thing went through my mind :) What a great interview and how lucky we are to have these two incredible artists around

[@jbreezy9022]

@@anthonywallace3830 listen to Phoebe Bridgers

[@sophiafake-virus2456]

She doesn't need vague questions because her butterfly mind would meander all over the shop. Thank God she fixes her thoughts into lyrics.

[@allyson--]

Beautiful way to put it 🦋

[@pjg238]

AHH Michael Hedges reference!

[@allyson--]

she is everywhere at once

[@melissasol_]

38:07 🤯 38:12 🤯🤯

[@thirty371]

18:13

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[@pipeu4456]

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[@milo_mbaye]

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