Josh plays instruments from all around the world, and that’s how he’s on a crazy number of recordings, including live on Broadway and for anime series’ like Naruto or Avatar.
We talk about building a wide set of skills, and how that curiosity and love of learning fits really well with the modern world.
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Josh Plotner is a producer, recording artist, composer, arranger, contractor, and saxophonist/woodwind multi-instrumentalist with a collection of over 150 instruments. He has become one of the most recorded woodwind artists of the last few years, with hundreds of recordings across film, television, video games, and albums, in addition to playing on Broadway. Josh also performs internationally as a soloist for 'Avatar the Last Airbender: Live in Concert' on 10 instruments, including flute, duduk, and Chinese woodwinds. His playing has been featured on Emmy winning, GRAMMY, and Oscar-nominated works. Highlights include Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Madam Secretary, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Babylon, Red Dead Redemption II, music for “Star Wars': Galaxy’s Edge” at Disneyland/Disney World, collaboration with Meghan Trainor while she was at No. 1 on the charts, and many others.
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Invent things instantly. It’s all happening now. Inferences in between different languages. Chaining from one to the next. That interdisciplinary thing. Constantly in conversation with this tool. Opening up doors for that which is imperfect. Embodied creativity. Start to get a sense. The frequency of the standing wave. Wide and expansive. A vibrating column. Building on similar things. That embellishment tradition. As people. An intuitive understanding, an embodied understanding. The coolest thing ever. Easy to keep going. Forever value. All the cool flashy stuff that’s fun. Basically all of these flutes. Hollow sticks with holes. The cool leaves. Calmer, more intentional, more intelligent person. Learning ornamentation. All the different notes. A woodwind generalist. Time plus sound. ༄
Edited by Rebecca Sansom
Set Design by Max Horwich
Podcast Produced by Beformer