David Norland on Showing Up and Being Useful

Apr 19, 2019

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Composer David Norland discusses the importance of showing up and being as useful as possible.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Coming to California
• Commercials to movies
• Royalties from Prime Time TV
• Raising awareness of your work
• Not being happy with your reel
• Showing up daily
• Positioning yourself
• Lessons learned at each stage
• Telling someone else's story
• Staying excited as a composer
• Pushing yourself forward
• Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies
• Putting yourself in places where you can develop relationships
• Being as useful as possible

Websites:

• www.davidnorland.com

 

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This episode was edited by E.J. Sadler at Studio184.