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b"'Funky Fusion Flute Flix' (now say that fast 3 times!)\\nWhen you give a brief to a musician, you usually need to supply them with an expected overview of the project, how much artistic freedom they have, how long or short, how many segments, who is the audience, what is the expected outcome\\u2026\\nEarly in 2022 the team at TJ flutes said to Grammy and Emmy winning musician Jos\\xe9 Valentino they wanted to do a project with him which was not like their usual musical adventures together.\\nThe brief to Jos\\xe9\\u2026 to create 10 x 60 secs videos of a brief musical moment in time.\\nSimple eh?\\nNot really! Jos\\xe9 was tasked with writing down 10 things that came to him at one specific moment. Each of these thoughts would then become the name of a track and would then represent the spontaneity of interpretation and freedom of that particular moment in time in which it was recorded. He then had to record the background 'vibe' for each track without knowing what the top line would be.\\nWhen in the studio, Jos\\xe9 had to hold each of the ten thoughts in turn and let himself be free to just play over each track. No re-takes\\u2026just one-off moments!\\nArtistic freedom was there and yet it was at the same time confined between boundaries of imposed time structures dictated by an external entity.\\nWas each recorded moment actually going to deliver freedom of musical expression, or was the barriers of space within time going to impose creative limits?\\nWithin the time structure, Jos\\xe9 was artistically free to spontaneously improvise knowing that each moment is always different to the moment before. Creating with freedom and understanding that every recording immediately becomes a reflection of an earlier moment.\\nWhy set a 60 second barrier? The audience. These videos are aimed at the transient and fast moving social media population. Those who expect their information, both auditory and visual to be contained with a brief message via their scrolling finger. Valid in that moment and consigned to the archive when the finger pushed upwards.\\n'Talking Flutes' and 'Talking Flutes Extra' are podcast productions by the TJ flute company.\\xa0 For more information visit www.tjflutes.com"