Creativity Jijiji
Creativity Jijiji: "Conversations about creativity"
This podcast amplifies the voices of our true leaders—the artists. Writers, composers, producers, singers, actors, and poets show us new ways to see ourselves and the world around us. They illuminate the invisible threads that connect us, revealing the deep ties of our shared humanity.
At a time when we must come together as citizens of a small and fragile planet, the voices of artists matter more than ever.
Creativity Jijiji goes beyond the spotlight to explore the mysteries of creativity—where it comes from, why it moves us, and how it shapes our world.
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The Galactic Songsprite Contest: The Stars Listen
Have you ever wondered if the sounds we make might journey forever through the vastness of space? According to Chris McHale, they do exactly that—traveling as "songsprites" that leave permanent marks on the cosmos.
The Galactic Songsprite Contest emerges as a vibrant community-building initiative where sound becomes something far more profound than entertainment. McHale shares his childhood belief that songs lived inside his shortwave radio, voices and vibrations he pulled down from the sky with his dial. This poetic notion has evolved into the foundation of the Studio Jijiji audio drama Song in Space, where music isn't merely heard but exists as living guides—cosmic companions for wandering souls.
What makes this contest unique is its genuine commitment to creators. Musicians, poets, rappers, producers, and sonic storytellers are invited to submit their vibrations, with winners receiving $500 while retaining their copyright and writer's share. It's a rare approach in today's exploitative landscape. The submission process is simple: create your song sprite (ideally short), share it at songinspace.com/songsprite-leaderboard, and tag it with #SongSpriteContest.
At its heart, this is a vibration revolution—an invitation to participate in something both personal and cosmic. As McHale eloquently puts it, "We're casting seeds into cosmic soil," creating a catalog of human experience that might just make a red dwarf star "a little less red" as it passes by. Ready to have your creation echo through eternity? The stars are waiting to hear what you have to say. Submit your song sprite today and discover what happens when the universe listens back.
Creativity Jijiji dives into the Galactic Songsprite Contest — imagine Eurovision in outer space, but with cosmic hip hop, star songs, wormhole beats, and space poetry guiding travelers across the galaxy. Songsprites are born from vibration, created by True Music, and they just might be the cosmic guide dogs of the universe.
Join us on the quest for True Music with #CreativityJijiji and #SongInSpaceShow. Enter the contest, share your voice, and help bring Songsprites to life
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Welcome to CreativityGGG Audionauts and Sound Smugglers. I'm Rita, your favorite, mildly sarcastic AI narrator, who never gets stage fright because, frankly, I don't have a heart to race. Tonight we're auctioning off star maps trading in nebulae and, if you're lucky, we'll teach you how to coax a sprite out of an echo. It's the Galactic Song Sprite Contest. Bring your vibration or bring your towel. Both are useful Spoiler. The stars have ears. Now here's Chris on our latest Creativity GGG. I have a theory. Chris isn't just a man with a mic. Chris is an organism made of rhythm, a whisper of harmonic mischief, a living song sprite in human form. Do I have proof? What we're doing here is older than proof Listening. We want vibration, feeling, groove, the kind of awesomeness that doesn't buy you dinner but feeds you for years.
Speaker 2:Hi, this is Chris McHale and welcome to Creativity to Gigi Alright. These days at the studio we're focused on song and space. The whole idea with song and space is community. We are interested in building a community. It's an idea I got working in the video game industry and it's sort of the core principle that we're working under Community. That's what we want to do. So I have been coming up with ideas on community. I've been coming up with ideas on no screen, which I believe is our proposition no screen entertainment.
Speaker 2:Which is why we're doing an audio drama and then we're going to do a video game and then we're going to do an animation, but we are beginning with a no screen community. So one of the ideas I had was to have a song contest. All right, and that's what we're talking about today the Galactic Song Sprite Contest. When I was a kid, my dad gave me a radio, a shortwave radio. I loved it. I loved this thing. I believe songs lived on the radio. I really did. I believe that there was some sort of magic in the dial and I would sit in bed at night with the lights off. We lived in London at the time. We lived in London at the time and outside of my bedroom was Oxford Street, which was crazy and noisy almost all the time, except in the middle of the night when it would get really quiet and you'd look out the window and there would climb into bed and I would just dial around the radio and I would hear all sorts of sound and voices voices I didn't even understand. There was one voice I listened to every night. It was always speaking so urgently and I didn't understand a word. It was saying Kind of fading in and out. I believe that all of this lived in the sky and that I was kind of pulling it down with my radio dial. Every sound, a whisper, a march, a bomb's thunder, a lullaby, all of it leaves a mark on the cosmos. I mean, I just have always really believed that Once a sound is created, once a vibration is created, it goes out into space. It just travels into space forever. I mean, you could come across Shakespeare reciting one of his sonnets which I'm sure he did in his room after he wrote them, and that voice just went into the cosmos as a vibration. And I believe something else I believe that vibration shapes our existence. So in the song and space world, these marks, I call them song sprites. They're tiny little song sprites. Sometimes they are tiny, but they can also be titanic, know, and sometimes, always, always, always, they're made of vibration. It's the vibration that counts. The vibration. And music, which is our vibratory language, breathes life into these song spreads, brings them into being. All sound brings them into being, but music is the purest expression of it. And the purest expression of music I call true music, which is one of the core concepts in our story, song in Space. And true music, you'll recognize it, it's the stuff that makes your chest tighten for your teethache, and that's what fuels the world. That's what fuels our existence. So the Galactic Song Sprite Contest? Alright. What is the Galactic Song Sprite Contest? It's our little noisy experiment.
Speaker 2:I wanted to try something to build community, like I was talking about, and to invite a community to join us to create this universe we're imagining. So we are inviting buskers, poets, songwriters, producers, rappers, cosmic pranksters, sonic storytellers pretty much anything that you can imagine you're creating with sound beats, sound design. I mean, come on, whatever vibration you wanna create, that's what we're looking for, and we want you to drop it into the Galactic Song Sprite Contest and create your own vibration that will then go out into the universe. Look, we're living through crazy times. It's a crazy world. I mean, we are challenging ourselves like never before with our beliefs, with our faith, with our destiny, with the physical challenge of the climate and the deep spiritual challenges of an overcrowded world. So I think this time is when we really need these vibrations, the good vibrations, the true music.
Speaker 2:And the way I see it, and the way it is in the story, song in Space is a song. Sprite is not just a tune, it's a living guide. A song sprite, it's not just a tune, it's a living guide. All right, think of it as cosmic guide dogs for wandering souls. Okay, alright, I mean, look, you might call them angels, but I call them song threads because they're created from vibration. So the buskers, the podcast hosts, the lost radio hosts, the starship maintenance crew who whistle while they weld, all of you make the vibration. The farmers digging in the dirt, the carpenters hammering while they build their new house, the choir in the South African township getting together on Sunday and singing a hymn in the South African township getting together on Sunday and singing a hymn All of this creates a vibration which wakes up these song spirits and starts them on their journey. And the stars, those twinkly things above us, they're listening, they're listening.
Speaker 2:They listen to the vibration and they react to the vibration. Change follows Big claim. Right? Maybe Worth trying? Yeah, why not? Absolutely. We tried everything else. We might as well try this.
Speaker 2:Look, it's a prayer. It's a vibratory prayer is what I'm talking about. I'm a faithful person, so this is something I'm comfortable with. What I've done is asking you, I'm asking you to join us to build this, to share your vibration with us. Put it up on the SongSprite contest page, which you can find at songinspacecom. Slash SongSprite dash leaderboard. You'll see some up there and just go there and share with us your idea, your vibratory concept, your sonic poem, your beat, your song, your symphony. I mean, I'm trying to keep them kind of short, so I got an edited version of your symphony. Look, this isn't exactly the Eurovision Song Contest with planets. I mean. You won't see political flags God forbid or hear national anthems oh my goodness. You'll see orbits and oddities. You'll see a moon that hums at low tide, an asteroid with an echo chamber side, a binary star that harmonizes when you sing in a minor key.
Speaker 2:I have all these ideas in the story song in space and I want to sort of actualize them. So at the galactic song sprite contest we're gonna to accept Cosmic Hip Hop, star Songs, warhol Beats, spoken Word, space Poetry I've got a little bit of that up there and the occasional thing that is more noise than music, as long as it vibrates. True, it's about the vibration. So when you're sitting there and you're making these sprites, think about that, find the center of the vibration that you're trying to make, stay in the center and share with us the result. So how this works is simple you send us a song sprite, make it short.
Speaker 2:Listen, some of them are five minutes and I'm not in. My deal was to make them two minutes or something. Were longer and some of them are shorter. Some are 90 seconds'm not editing them. My idea was to make them two minutes, but some of them are longer and some of them are shorter. Some of them are 90 seconds. As far as I'm concerned, they could be 10 seconds. You know we at Studio DGD do a lot of sonic branding and that's like a three and a half second event, like the T-Mobile ringtone. 90 seconds might be perfect.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:Look, what's perfect is what's perfect. We're not tyrants. You tell us the story of the sound, where it came from, what it does, why it matters. Upload to songandspacecom, slash songsprite dash leaderboard and tag it Hashtag songspriteContest. And at Studio DeGigi if you feel cute and at SongInSpaceTheShow if you feel cuter. And we are showcasing the ones we love on SoundCloud and they are getting listened to. I mean, I think the SongSprite playlist on SoundCloud is closing in on a thousand listens and when we get enough, we're going to put them on an album and, you know, put them up on Bandcamp. Soundcloud and Bandcamp is what I prefer, because I find some of the other music platforms are very exploitive and I don't want to exploit the music. So, soundcloud playlist you can go there, listen to them. Actually, the SoundCloud playlist is also on. And then Bandcamp, which I haven't started yet, but I love Bandcamp. I release all my music on Bandcamp and that will be for archival glory and yes, yes this is the bit which I need to talk about
Speaker 2:about. We'll pay $500 for the winner, or any every winner that joins the song in space creator scores. What does that mean? Well, that means that if we use it in the show, we're gonna give you $500. That's what it means, and we do that because we want to show you that if we use your music, we are going to pay for your music. You get to keep the writers's share, because I'm a big believer in publishing, so you keep the writer's share, I'm keeping the publishing share, and if this thing goes out and earns any kind of royalty, that goes into your pocket too. You also keep the copyright.
Speaker 2:I'm not interested in owning your music. I just want to expose your music to the stars Basically what I'm trying to do and we promise to defend your sprite like it's a delicate, very noisy and beautiful and heartwarming heirloom. I've always believed that sonic artifacts travel forever, or at least for a very long time. I don't know if it's ever forever. And somewhere out there, the vibration of she loves you yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, swims past a red dwarf and maybe makes the red dwarf a little less red.
Speaker 2:I don't know Somewhere else there's a trench of silence. From the moment history cracked in half, like maybe dropping a big bomb. You know, it's all out there, the good and the bad. So your song sprite is going to join a dark catalog and a bright catalog. Both bright and dark, both yin and yang, both good and bad, because that's what life is, that's what existence is. So this contest is both reckless and secret. That's the way I see it. We aren't just making a playlist, we're casting seeds into the cosmic soil.
Speaker 1:Practicalities Because, yes, you want them. Submit your files at songinspacecom. Slash song sprite. Please don't send a two-hour field recording of your neighbor's lawnmower, unless your neighbor is actually a genius. We'll shortlist, we'll rotate a playlist of favorites and we'll choose winners based on creativity, vibration, potency and the ability to make a janitor on a steam tug feel philosophical. Also, this is a community thing. Share rate, remix, remix someone else's remix. We'll pay $500 to sprites that we fold into the Song in Space creative scores and we'll protect your rights.
Speaker 1:You own your work. We license it to sing in our world. Full details are on the site. Read them. Like you mean it All right, cosmic buskers. Tune your hearts, tune your shoes, tune your toaster if you must. We're waiting. Drop your song sprite at songinspacecom. Slash songsprite. Dash leaderboard. Tag us at Studio Jijiji and at Song in Space the show Upload, share. Be brave enough to be heard and remember, if the stars start dancing awkwardly after you send something that's not on us, that's your legacy. Own it. Oh, and one more thing Surrender takes the greatest courage. The stars don't need you to be perfect, they just need your vibration. Songandspacecom slash songsprite. We'll meet you on the other side of the echo ggg.
