One host, one guest, two pianos — and an edit whose only job is to disappear into the feeling.
Norah Jones Is Playing Along is Norah Jones's iHeart series: she sits at the piano with one guest, they talk, and they play. I cut video across several episodes — and the discipline is restraint. Two people, two instruments, real feeling, and nowhere to hide. The edit has to stay out of the way and still find the shape.
Sarah McLachlan. Three songs — Only Human, Better Broken, and a duet on Angel — wrapped around a conversation about losing and regaining a voice, founding Lilith Fair, and twenty-four years of free music schools. The cut opens cold, before any titles, on McLachlan explaining why pure prettiness bores her: "I need some dissonance. I need something to rub up against." That line sets the terms for everything after.
"You pick yourself back up… figure out how to do better and be better." Resilience — "that's the name of the game."
— Sarah McLachlan