Dev Hynes on Arthur Russell, Voices and Sound Collages | Red Bull Music Academy

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Devonté Hynes talks about his fascination with found sound, working with female voices and what it means to be a black classical fan.
Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in East London, Hynes has called NYC home for close to a decade. A musical shape-shifter, his sound has evolved from dance-punk to eccentric folk to the ‘80s informed, socially-minded R&B he crafts today as Blood Orange.
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2:51 - New York City
9:21 - Sound collages
14:22 - Arthur Russell
39:29 - Nina Simone
51:19 - Classical music
1:04:06 - The female voice
Liberation of soul and mind is essential to the work of Devonté Hynes. The 2016 album, Freetown Sound, his third under the Blood Orange moniker, touches on themes including musical identity, sexuality, politics and what it means to be a black man living in America today. A proficient songwriter and collaborator, he has worked with artists ranging from Solange Knowles and Nelly Furtado to Connan Mockasin, David Byrne, Grace Jones and Kindness.
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If you want to know more about Dev Hynes passion for dance and music, then you can read this interview with Kindness, as the two friends chat ahead of Blood Orange’s third album: daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2016/06/kindness-blood-orange-interview

[@yourladyship914]

Protect This Man At All Costs

[@Bonitaymorena]

Truth!! :D UK musicians all day and I'm not even from there!!

[@ceremony4970]

Agreed! Love what this guy is doing with his art, super down to earth and humble as well.

[@modsmalls4222]

I like how the interviewer is letting him talk

[@fluoritekids8962]

Fun fact: the song ‘Champagne Coast’ has a drum sample in the background that is from Arthur Russell 24>24 compilation album called “You Can’t Hold Me Down” AND it’s no doubt that I find it intriguing to the human eye how amazing Dev just incorporated it into his music to tribute the underground NY artist Arthur.

[@JayyeMusic]

Thank you for knowing this def gonna look into this

[@yourladyship914]

Dev Hynes Is National Treasure

[@OsofoGriot]

Quality longform interview, extra respect to the interviewer as well, really interesting and well-phrased questions.

[@vildaray9834]

A real musician's musician. Dev is as talented as he is humble. A new legend

[@movimentodoscacos]

Interviewer makes a lot of great questions here. And Dev is so sweet and talented.

[@bundess5473]

PURE TALENT HYNES

[@defoperator7993]

wow, this upload was a synchronicity for me

[@JayyeMusic]

love him so much

[@LA-ue2ph]

i LOVE HIM.

[@caramayer5461]

Incredible

[@zookaadel]

I love him

[@reisakakibara]

Ah is that Amelia from Fazerdaze @1:13:23 !

[@RayasNegroOvejas]

I wonder if Dev knows of Chassol. Think he would like him.

[@EricMazariegos]

Yesss ❤️❤️

[@chriscollins2548]

don't understand not playing audio for most part since most the records played are Dev's own records...bizarre

[@patrykszwichtenberg4180]

true Artist

[@Iexapro]

Whoa I had no idea he was born in HTX.

[@TheFever77]

pink cloud HTX? He’s from London.

[@FrankietheMute]

Born in Houston, moved to UK at 9. Pretty cool.

[@lotuseater7247]

I remember when test icicles came out

[@wesselmolenbroek5683]

Switch topics here

[@hang-sangitch]

I used to play with myself on stage. Didn't work out to well. The crowd hated it 🤣

[@Nekobe118]

Ayyo

[@hidikitalks]

So he stepped on his own cello right?

[@taufiqhariyadi]

Loovely

[@eocha24]

Yeah no, great musician!

[@quorijames2293]

why aint no one tell him his top lip ashy?yall fake

[@SJO897]

they white lmaooooo

[@jimmydangelo9445]

Ummmm add all the music maybe?

[@andreapopelka4371]

Who is the moderator c:

[@RBMA]

Lauren Martin

[@andreapopelka4371]

She is amazing! Thank you, Dev and Lauren!

[@Jujubes666]

He's the great imposter

[@jackxavier3915]

Explain

[@Jujubes666]

Jack Xavier its the name of one of his songs lol

[@cosmblus]

sad to see all of the Millenials on their phones

[@Dirtyvinnie]

the racial talk is just BS for 2017, come on just look at the panel of guests RBMA had in the last few years, just have a look who is on top of charts, just have a look of how much Prince was regarded... it just saddens me that we still hear that sort of frame of thinking in 2017...ask why Kanye West is more praised than the great Stevie Wonder

[@ejh213]

Kanye should be held in the same regard as Stevie. Both geniuses.

[@CheyneQueezy]

gtfoh

[@iandawunamugerwabyenkya7526]

trump is president of the united states. Just because black artists are celebrated in this very meta subsection of international music-heads doesn't mean that most music listeners/journalists/professionals/etc. are as socially progressive. racism is still very much interwoven into every facet of American life (I can only truly speak for my country), and it won't go away for a while. Is it better now in terms of recognition of black talent? Yes of course. Is it completely equalized? No not at all. And Kanye is literally in the middle of his career, whereas Stevie already had his time and made his impact in ages past, so of course right now it's going to seem like Kanye is more lauded. In 50 years they'll both just be looked back on as great black artists, I don't get your point.

[@iandawunamugerwabyenkya7526]

Also, and I should've just said this, the fact that you so discredit kanye west despite his irrefutable aesthetic contributions within the same musical spaces as stevie (just a generation or two later) is completely reinforcing Dev's point. Right now it's not cool for "serious music heads" to be into Kanye in the same way that the people who wouldn't recognize marvin while he was alive probably recognized jazz as art music. People will look down on black forms of music until they can be viewed in retrospect and then it's clear how amazing those artists were compared to their contemporaries, but lots of people would get so much flak for admitting that kanye is a genius right now while he's still active. you literally just proved his point.

[@LA-ue2ph]

let me guess... you're white?

[@worthawatch6981]

"I have nothing interesting to talk about, so I guess I'll talk about race for an hour"

[@jackxavier3915]

What?

[@eliadefkathincoeur]

Yoo the questions of people in the audience are so basic.. people ask questions just to be noticed really. Great to give a platform to such an artist though @rbma