Jay Schankman

Written By Christopher Imlay

Autonom@uz  (/ôˈtänəməs/) is a collaborative synthesis of human imagination and AI-generated vision. It’s a give-and-take dynamic, where the AI prompts and the human dreams, provoking the unseen into reality.

Jay Schankman is the human behind this partnership.

’I’m a content creator and multimedia developer. I am most often found creating just for the sake of creating art. I am an artist free and unbound, on a mission to prompt, provoke and promote.’

 

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Videos by Jay Schankman
Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix)
Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix)

ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Jay Schankman

SONG: Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix) FROM i/o

ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Jay Schankman

SONG: Live and Let Live (Bright-Side Mix) FROM i/o

Video info:

It was an interesting proposition; to pick a song and make this video for Peter. I loved the message and the challenge, and with that, I felt grounded by the message. There was no intention going in, but as I began working on it, the pieces fell together naturally.

The video (and my interpretation of the song) moves through three lyrical passages. First, there is personal understanding and forgiveness, then repairing or healing our interpersonal relationships, and finally coming together in love, with the references taking many forms, ultimately as we stop our endless wars and “lay the burden down, lay the weapons down”. The Elders speak of having the courage to “be brave enough to listen, to 'live and let live'.”

I love this song, the project and the opportunity that Peter Gabriel and Real World Records provides for the world community of independent artists. In gratitude, thank you and thanks to you for watching it!                                                

Song info:

Live and Let Live is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark 'Spike' Stent.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel and Richard Russell.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

“Music can be like a box of mood pills that we can use to treat ourselves and a lot of the work of the Reverberation project is focused on that sort of idea. When someone suggested that forgiveness might be a topic to write about, at first, I thought, ‘that's not interesting to me,’ but then I remembered two things. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was the chair of The Elders and a real mentor for me, led the Truth and Reconciliation Committee in South Africa and that really allowed people to expose, report and maybe feel again some of the horrors of the apartheid era. I remember he always said that listening made a huge difference, just making sure people felt heard and recognized. Then, sometimes, it created a space for forgiveness.

There's also a description that Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from jail after 27 years in prison and found himself about to become president of South Africa, standing next to some of the people who'd been responsible for keeping him in jail all that time. He said he felt some of the old fear and hatred swelling up inside him but when he thought hard about it, he realized that he needed to find a way to work with these people, to build what he called his rainbow coalition. He needed to feel their humanity and ultimately to find a way to forgive them. He was quite sure that if he couldn't forgive them and find a way to work with them, that he would remain their prisoner for the rest of his days.

Now, I know if we look at what's happening in the Middle East now or in Ukraine, all sorts of places around the world where there's still violence and brutality, to walk around with a bunch of flowers, preaching forgiveness seems trite and pathetic, maybe. But in the long run, I think people have to find a way. ‘Peace only happens when you respect the rights of others’ is a quote from the Peace University in Costa Rica and I think that's a really important message for me and for my life. You either belong to that hurt or you free yourself and forgiveness is clearly a super effective way of freeing yourself.”

-pg

Christopher Imlay https://www.command-x.com
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