April 12, 2022 Stuart Davis talks to host Steve Banks about his own creative process, the central themes that inform his art, and how he unpacks the radical unknowable mystery at the center of the creative furnace. Stuart and Steve focus on two themes in particular: sex and death (aka eros and thanatos, creativity and destruction, the self-transcending and self-dissolving drives shared by all holons in the Kosmos). They also explore how these themes are all expressions of a single primordial creative lineage running through all of our human activities, and indeed through all manifestations in this universe.
Stuart Davis
"Without exaggeration, Stuart Davis is one of the most fascinating and exceptional songwriters in modern music." -San Jose Metro
Stuart Davis was born in Des Moines, Iowa January 11, 1971. He grew up in Lakeville, Minnesota in a good Lutheran home, and was an avid hockey player. He attended college at the University of Minnesota, where he drank heavily, chased women, and studied music orchestration, He dropped out after three years and became a working artist, performing over 1,000 concerts and recording music.
Music For Mortals, Stuart’s 15th album, was released in 2012, followed by a tour of 130+ cities in North America and Europe. Seasons 1 & 2 of his TV series Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll aired on cable network HDNet (now AXS TV) and co-starred Kandyse McClure. It is now available on DVD or Amazon streaming.
Stuart’s other creative work includes painting, screenwriting, acting, movie scoring, and writing (as yet, unpublished) books. His hobbies include constructing the language ‘IS’, and exploring more integrally-informed linguistics. He is a practicing Buddhist.
He’s been an in-studio guest on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, The World Cafe with David Dye, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, as well as other syndicated radio shows.
Website: http://www.stuartdavis.com
