Robot Koch - The Next Billion Years (Documentary)

https://robotkoch.lnk.to/TheNextBilli... This film by british director Lauren Pringle documents the process behind Robot Koch`s album "The Next Billion Years". Director: Lauren Pringle DOP: Fionn Robson Guilfoyle Editor: Jhiliem Miller Sound Recordist and Sound Designer: Josh Grey-Jung Color Grade: Delfina Mayer Browsing through items in a second hand shop in LA, Robot Koch came across an old cassette. The pencil-written inscription in its cover, which read “Cousteau”. He bought the two-dollar tape to record his own material over it. “What you seek is seeking you,” says Robot quoting the Sufi mystic and poet Rumi. As Robot would find out later that evening, the cassette wasn’t blank - it contained a mysterious recording of a lecture by the late Jacques-Yves Cousteau. At that moment, Robot couldn’t have imagined that that serendipitous instant in which he found the tape, or, the tape found its way to him, would mark the beginning of the story of The Next Billion Years, his latest album. Listening to Robot’s music, it is obvious that it is the macro rather than the particular which moves him, “I perceive myself as part of a bigger picture. The more I learn about the big picture, the more I learn about myself. I try to understand more about how everything is in cosmic interdependence, to understand myself better,” says Robot. It was this big-picture view that informed the decision to work with the grandeur of the Nordic Pulse Orchestra and the famed Estonian conductor Kristjan Järvi on The Next Billion Years. Apart from his forward thinking approach to classical music, Järvi, like Robot, injects into his music a great deal of philosophy and existentialism, “Once, over dinner in Estonia we found out that we share a common interest apart from music: the universe and cosmic consciousness,” Robot reminisces. The Next Billion Years is an album which, at its core, asks what the future might look like, and it was Cousteau’s own predictions on that tape which ignited such a question in Robot, “When I first heard the recording I was really blown away by its long term vision. When we think about the future we usually think about our own lifetime or the one of our children, but who really thinks a thousand or a million years into the future? Or even better, a billion years?” asks Robot. While Cousteau hoped to ignite that consciousness in us through his books, films and lectures, Robot counts on the power of music to awaken us, “Music is a means to allow a higher consciousness to enter. everything is energy, everything has a frequency and with music we can connect and raise our frequency in a way we would not be able to do with the limitations of the mind.”