The Thing Itself sees music artist and producer Creature & Machine take a deep dive into the psychology of some incredible creative brains. How do creatives know which ideas to follow and which to discard? How do they keep motivated and deal with critical feedback? How do they balance their creative drives with making an income and marketing their work? In this podcast we dig into these questions and more to get an insight into the psychological scaffolding that supports creative lives, through conversations with creative people from different disciplines and backgrounds.

In this episode I chat to Sonia Elisheva, electro-swing artist who combines her Eastern European and LDN heritage to make meaningful and seriously danceable pop jazz music. She also happens to be my friend and bandmate! Come behind the scenes of pretty much an average Thursday night rehearsal conversation for me and Sonia, where we chat about knowing who to trust, how Sonia learnt to handle critical feedback, and most importantly discuss using a raspberry innocent smoothie to poison my husband in her recent music video.

Sonia's debut album, Black Sea, is available now wherever you listen to music. You can find out more at the links below.

Sonia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soniaelisheva

Sonia's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@soniaelisheva

Sonia's Website: https://www.soniaelisheva.com

Sign up for Sonia's mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/85e4e0882f17/sign-up

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Sign up to the podcast mailing list to get notified of new episodes and see behind the scenes content: www.creatureandmachine.com/the-thing-itself

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The background music used in this episode is from Creature & Machine tracks Colours and Fairytale - listen now on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cmOPozLsUNMdb5sTahGHI?si=6FW8iLLmSBOFAPvtl4uR9Q

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The Thing Itself sees music artist and producer Creature & Machine take a deep dive into the psychology of some incredible creative brains. How do creatives know which ideas to follow and which to discard? How do they keep motivated and deal with critical feedback? How do they balance their creative drives with making an income and marketing their work? In this podcast we dig into these questions and more to get an insight into the psychological scaffolding that supports creative lives, through conversations with creative people from different disciplines and backgrounds.

Got ideas or suggestions about the podcast? Get in touch!

Sign up to the podcast mailing list to get notified of new episodes and see behind the scenes content: www.creatureandmachine.com/the-thing-itself

Follow Creature & Machine on Instagram: www.instagram.com/creature.and.machine

Follow Creature & Machine on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@creature.and.machine

The background music used in this episode is from Creature & Machine tracks Colours and Fairytale - listen now on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cmOPozLsUNMdb5sTahGHI?si=6FW8iLLmSBOFAPvtl4uR9Q

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.