“Whole Lot of Music Going On”
If you’ve been keeping up with Why Make Music…, you know the story keeps expanding.
Episode 056 is a snapshot of motion — catalogs growing, concerts inspiring, and AI reshaping how independent art gets seen.
We start in Philly, where two nights of live music reminded us that contrast is the lifeblood of creation. Billie Eilish turned the Wells Fargo Center into a whispering cathedral, blending sustainability with spectacle and donating $11.5 million of her tour proceeds to climate and food-equity causes. Twenty-four hours later, Laufey (LAY-vay) filled the same space with velvet jazz and classical grace. Different genres, same feeling: authenticity wins.
Back at WDMN HQ, Think Timm and DJ Warm Cookies (Willa May) translate that energy into process. Segment Four, “How We Make the Cookies,” is a love letter to every bedroom producer: Logic Pro 11’s Session Players, FL Studio’s Gopher, Ableton’s AI stems, Auto-Tune 11, Ozone 12 — the toolbox that lets one person operate like a full studio. The moral? AI is the assistant, not the artist. Taste still rules.
Then the lens widens. Lower Level Collections gets its shout-out — a basement-turned-museum of pop-culture wonder where Star Wars, Marvel and G.I. Joe figures coexist with family memories. And sports fans get their fix: Sixers undefeated, Lakers holding steady, Eagles on bye.
Segment Seven dives deep into the business side: “Brains, Brands & Bots.” WDMN’s marketing now runs on AI modeling and short-form content strategies inspired by Adley Kinsman’s Viralish and Alicia Lyttle’s Queen of AI systems. The motto: It’s not about the algorithm—it’s about the imagination you feed into it.
Finally, Willa May wraps it all up with gratitude and a garden metaphor that ties the whole series together: plant good seeds, water them daily, pull the weeds, watch the flowers bloom. She revisits the story of Paul Amadeus Dienach—the man who claimed to wake up in the year 3906 A.D.—as a reminder that vision and care for others shape the world we leave behind.
So whether you’re building beats in Logic or planting seeds in your own creative garden, take a page from Episode 056: the future is coming either way—better to compose it than fear it.
Stream “If I Was Your Producer” Volumes 1–4, follow @ThinkTimm @DJWarmCookies, and visit WDMNMedia.com for news, merch, and Lower Level Collections updates.
Peace and be wild.
