Rishi Keshe Hirway

Here's a clip from a song of mine.

Okay, what's your experience when you listen to that?

You might like it, maybe.

Or you might hate it.

Or you might say, I don't know, dude, it's 20 seconds of a song.

What do you want from me?

Which is fair.

What I hear is impossible to expect anyone else to hear.

It's not just the cello part and the guitar part and the drum beat.

It's also all the things that I lived through in order for that music to exist.

So in 2014, I started a show to try and solve this distance between the creator and the audience.

I interviewed musicians about one of their songs and then combined that with the different layers of music that make up that song.

I thought this way, an artist could bring a listener in and give them a guided tour of this house they made.

They could point to the foundation and say, this is how the song got started.

And then as more and more layers get built on top, eventually the full song gets revealed.

The show's called Song Exploder.

It's a pod... Thank you.

Song Exploder is a podcast, and it's also a TV show that I adapted for Netflix.

And over the years, I've gotten to talk to some of the biggest musicians in the world about their work.

People like Fleetwood Mac and U2, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alicia Keys, Billie Eilish, The Roots, and Yo-Yo Ma, and over 200 others.