Arne Teply interview
Arne Teply, gifted musician
Sun Tzu's Art of War is on the minds and bookshelves of many leaders around the world. Their level of study, however, varies but one indication of someone who is a student of Sun Tzu is his or her eventual evolution beyond the book. These people who have evolved don't disconnect from Sun Tzu's Art of War but instead use it as a basis of their current endeavors.
This evolution is exceptionally rare. The reasons why include:
(1) Despite virtually every educated person's awareness of Sun Tzu's Art of War, we believe very few have actually read it in full.
(2) From the few who have read it fully, not everyone finds it useful. This might be due to misunderstandings, the book not applicable to the person's life at the time of reading, or no interest in conflict or competition.
(3) From the fewer still who find Sun Tzu's Art of War useful, not everyone has special talents or interests.
Our guest today, Mr. Arne Teply, is one of those rare special talents. One testament to his ability and enthusiasm is the following Art of War instrumental score (Part 2), which he produced for Sonshi in only half a day:
This evolution is exceptionally rare. The reasons why include:
(1) Despite virtually every educated person's awareness of Sun Tzu's Art of War, we believe very few have actually read it in full.
(2) From the few who have read it fully, not everyone finds it useful. This might be due to misunderstandings, the book not applicable to the person's life at the time of reading, or no interest in conflict or competition.
(3) From the fewer still who find Sun Tzu's Art of War useful, not everyone has special talents or interests.
Our guest today, Mr. Arne Teply, is one of those rare special talents. One testament to his ability and enthusiasm is the following Art of War instrumental score (Part 2), which he produced for Sonshi in only half a day:
Can you envision this score in an action film or as background music for a creative process? The composition was well done. It was also in the manner Mr. Teply presented us the song that further confirmed his character. He said, "It took me half a day to compose it, yet I know it was truly worth my time and energy."
His gifted ability was such that half a day seemed a long time to write a song from start to finish. (Part 1 took two hours.) In addition, we did not request him to compose a song for us, but he did it anyway. It is this endowment, passion, and work ethic that make outstanding contributors in society and ultimately great leaders and captains of industry. Not all successful people are Sun Tzu students, but all Sun Tzu students are successful people.
Therefore, it is our great pleasure to introduce to you Arne Teply, a musician, martial artist, operations executive, and an aspiring movie professional you will hear more about in the future.
In the interview, you will learn how he used Sun Tzu's Art of War for self-defense, how he is exploring the healing attributes of music, and his extraordinary method of composing music. Enjoy!
His gifted ability was such that half a day seemed a long time to write a song from start to finish. (Part 1 took two hours.) In addition, we did not request him to compose a song for us, but he did it anyway. It is this endowment, passion, and work ethic that make outstanding contributors in society and ultimately great leaders and captains of industry. Not all successful people are Sun Tzu students, but all Sun Tzu students are successful people.
Therefore, it is our great pleasure to introduce to you Arne Teply, a musician, martial artist, operations executive, and an aspiring movie professional you will hear more about in the future.
In the interview, you will learn how he used Sun Tzu's Art of War for self-defense, how he is exploring the healing attributes of music, and his extraordinary method of composing music. Enjoy!
Sonshi: Tell us a little about yourself and what got you interested in Sun Tzu's Art of War?
Teply: I was born in Czech Republic, the year 1985. My name is Arne Teplý. I'm known under the producer name of Sixty P Beatz, a multi genre music producer and a student of Sifu Dalibor Kuběna who is the direct student of legendary Jim Fung (Fung Chuen Keung), I study at Prague 9, Vysočanská, it's the traditional Wing Chun school with many talented students.
I'm more known around the world than in my birth country (mostly in UK). I had always a great interest in ancient knowledge as well as in eastern knowledge. It was due to happen around 5 years ago when my life turned into utter madness due to my popularity and brand new approach. With the wave of my success came a lot of hate and envy on my name, some really bad things happened to me over years, but that's all history and I've decided to not to mention these here. I've started reading the book called The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and how can I possibly overthrow the whole gang myself without help.
Sun Tzu was a great general, legendary leader and a great philosopher, so I started studying his views and insights. I studied the book for marketing and strategies which might come handy one day. It can be applied to many aspects of our lives and it does not necessarily need to be used in a military way. The book itself is wisdom and lessons for those who are willing to learn. I only benefited from it and it ultimately made me a much stronger person who fears no group of attackers as its application leads to victory. Combined with martial arts it's game over for bad guys.
Sonshi: What musical instruments can you play and what instrument(s) have you focused on lately?
Teply: This is supposed to be a chapter itself. I'm from a doctors/musician family where men were professionals in these fields. I grew up on a variety of music genres, more often it was classical music and it still remains in my heart. It resonates well with my soul. My father and grandfather could play the violin very well, string instruments and harmonium (reed organ) which I firstly tried to play as well in my childhood. I never got much into these, although my interest was in place.
The very first time I tried to compose music myself was at the age of 9, where I got into one of the very first programmes called the Fast Tracker in DOS operation system. It was nothing but a bunch of harsh sounds. I haven't really continue too long with it as I had to learn the programming basics, the English language properly and get into admin/developer field of computing, which I later found as a headache. Then as I was in my twenties, right after my father sadly passed away I thought I should continue what I was interested in and that was electronic/computer music. Totally fascinated by the options with virtual instruments (which I could not afford to buy any live instruments back then, we lived in poverty, barely able to pay for food and rent). I started studying sound in general, physics and mathematics which are very important factors for every music producer with talent.
Since December 2007 I have produced over 50+ full vocaled tracks (actual releases), over 400 beats/instrumentals (around 100-120 was released), around 50 quite good remixes (which I like myself, I never got 1 000 000 views and I don't even wish to have that) which were all made from scratch, brand new blank Fruity Loops projects, quite a few instrumental sound tracks (I love to compose strings layered with piano accompanied with a selection of the sounds of my choice).
So to answer the question properly to the point: I can play any instrument virtually on keys and arrange the recorded pattern into the composition, make it a reasonable progression in harmony, dynamics and the integration of it into my own composition. If I be lucky enough I will one day have money to buy a couple of live instruments and start to play them. My goal is to start with the electric guitar and strings. Although I never composed music to fit into what many people want to hear, I always only tried to express myself with a couple of tones blended together.
The more I knew about music in total, the more I knew I'm still nowhere near my top levels. What I can assure everyone of is, that after quite few restless years which I dedicated to a genre called grime I become very unpredictable with the musical releases and my production is already a large variety of vibes. Now even deeper I'm exploring the ultrasonic frequencies and its healing abilities, the A=432hz,A=428hz music and solfeggio scales, vibrations and all very interesting aspects of music which is not what the radio and business people want me to do.
Another fact is that the best music and content from me is not even released yet and nothing but great vibes are coming in next couple of years (I'm just slow with uploads more often and artists let producers down every now and then). I do not wish to go mainstream and get into the point where my record label will tell me what to compose and how, I will always keep myself free from these obstacles and compose the music the way I want to, when I want to for the audience I want to reach. That's probably more than enough to say here. Thank you, a great question.
Sonshi: How do you start the process of transferring what you read in The Art of War to your music? Is it a logical method or an emotional one or both?
Teply: Regardless to what any other musician say I hear the music differently than most. The number one aspect is the energy and as I got challenged and drawn into ultimately defensive methods how to secure my existence, the first thing I'm focused on is the energy of mine at the time when I just stare at the empty project. Trying to describe my mood and energy at that time, which I somehow have to keep until the project is done. Which takes hours and hours.
Genre is just a label on top of it so I don't even try to fit into any genre until at least half of the project is done. The Art Of War instrumental (grime beat and actually now even the musical score which is called The Art Of War - Part2) has been composed in a couple of hours and I got highly influenced by the Asian culture and the way they deal with war. It's tactical, powerful and the energy is consistent and dominant. It required me to let go of overthinking and only express my emotions and logical reasons to compose that track.
The second version (part 2) which might define way better the Sun Tzu philosophy than the first track is much more musical and conceptual. It was actually Thomas Huynh from the sonshi.com who got me into this idea, as I thought that my instrumental was somehow good, yet not good enough to express the meaning and definition of the great Sun Tzu. It should work well as a sound track to some martial arts movie, which I'm a big fan of as well as the philosophy of Yin-Yang. Every life aspect can be applied into music and I would love to explore more of the good aspects and stay away from destructive and distorted vibes. It all affects our health through our senses.
Sonshi: When do you know that a musical piece is complete and you stop making changes?
Teply: This question is very difficult to explain and to define my answer. Every composition differs and it is only up to the producer when to stop making changes and improving the overall quality and concept of the track.
For me it's quite easier than rocket science is. I need to hear that each and every sound in the composition making sense and got its place in the composition. There should not be any sounds of progressions of any musical part of it which change the energy of the whole track into a different one. I know I'm partially wrong in this, yet I know I'm absolutely right. Look, if I'm lucky enough to cause my body go into a nice vibration and I got chills from the sounds I compose I know I should not add too much sauce on top of it and that I'm nearly done with it, rather than add too much sauce and lose the right vibrations or distort them by other sounds.
The mind of a listener can suffer from it as well if I do so. Sometimes, the less is more and it works well in the music. Ultimately there don't have to be always lows-mids-highs present and these can vary. As well as one should not expect the artist to paint the canvas the way everyone expects him to do and use all sorts of colours. Some paintings might make sense to you after third/fourth view of it. Some might make no sense to you even if you see them a hundred times. Then if you take a look from other points of view and lose your own way of perception, you might find the true meaning of the painting and become absolutely aware of the greatness of it.
I more often struggle with the need of perfection in everything I compose, so I remaster the whole project more often a couple of times in a couple of days of hearing it again and again. Yet one golden rule of mine is that the original energy should not change no matter what, I only correct errors after I'm done with it, which serves the purpose of the expression to the point. The less distraction, the clearer it would be.
Sonshi: What is your favorite verse in The Art of War?
Teply: To be very honest there is not even one sentence in the book which I might mark as nonsense or a lie. My favourite verses are these:
1. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite circumstances.
(this verse applies to my life the best)
2. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
(this verse applies to the music I compose the best)
3. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. / He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. / Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
(these three verses apply to my abilities in martial arts and in self defence, tactics I use if I be ever in the situation where I will have no options left to survive other than defend myself or someone I need to save before the attackers. I do Wing Chun Kung Fu as well as I picked a couple of moves from other martial arts, from childhood I used to train Karate, Tae Kwon Do and a couple of other moves from Kung Fu which I found very useful, only have to say I know only basics from these, while I'm advanced in the Wing Chun Kung Fu as my base.)
Sonshi: In addition to music and the martial arts, do you use The Art of War to improve upon the other areas of your life?
Teply: Absolutely, I do. When it comes to marketing and business as well as well being and strategically secured positions in my life which are tactically developed and guarded by any means. There are not just nice people around us, some people were born evil and I should be always prepared for these miserable guys. They better be good and avoid any conflicts with me, I don't play when it comes to it. And I'm sorry for being like that, that's what my life experience made me.
Although I'm a very kind, caring and friendly person, I use my instincts of an Aquarian and senses more often to negotiate the situations and to identify the people around me. I'm only peaceful when I'm surrounded by peaceful people. When it comes to groups of hateful people who are looking for a victim to take on I would love to apply my skills to stop them each and every time and try their skills and abilities as I'm very sure there are always some weak points of their own and they can't be aware of mine. That comes from the Art Of War as well. The knowledge, the strategy, the way of life.
Sonshi: Please share with us what you are currently working on and your goals for the future?
Teply: I'm currently working for the agency called GATE Czech as the operation executive manager on the project for Philip Morris, IQOS. Can't tell you more about it as it's the company's policy. Then I work on a number of projects as a music producer, one of them is called 'Project Unity', which is basically concept EP as the first instance which brings together Czech, English and American producers together again. It stands for anti-knife, anti-gun crime as well as a help out to those who need a bit of motivation and courage to get from the roads back into their homes to live their lives normally again.
Not many people know that I used to be a homeless 6 years ago and it broke me down totally as a person and my health (mental/physical) suffered badly from it. After all I only become stronger and much more successful than I ever was before in my life. Another project be quite quick one off release of The Art Of War part 2 which Thomas inspired me to do so (Yes, Thomas Huynh). In fact I would love to make a series of the music inspired by Sun Tzu under that name and be really diverse with it, infinite variety of sound designs.
Editor's Note: You can support Arne Teply's work at the follow web pages:
Website https://60pbeatz.wixsite.com/sixtypbeatz
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/sixtypbeatz
Soundcloud https://www.soundcloud.com/sixtypbeatz
[End of interview]
Teply: I was born in Czech Republic, the year 1985. My name is Arne Teplý. I'm known under the producer name of Sixty P Beatz, a multi genre music producer and a student of Sifu Dalibor Kuběna who is the direct student of legendary Jim Fung (Fung Chuen Keung), I study at Prague 9, Vysočanská, it's the traditional Wing Chun school with many talented students.
I'm more known around the world than in my birth country (mostly in UK). I had always a great interest in ancient knowledge as well as in eastern knowledge. It was due to happen around 5 years ago when my life turned into utter madness due to my popularity and brand new approach. With the wave of my success came a lot of hate and envy on my name, some really bad things happened to me over years, but that's all history and I've decided to not to mention these here. I've started reading the book called The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and how can I possibly overthrow the whole gang myself without help.
Sun Tzu was a great general, legendary leader and a great philosopher, so I started studying his views and insights. I studied the book for marketing and strategies which might come handy one day. It can be applied to many aspects of our lives and it does not necessarily need to be used in a military way. The book itself is wisdom and lessons for those who are willing to learn. I only benefited from it and it ultimately made me a much stronger person who fears no group of attackers as its application leads to victory. Combined with martial arts it's game over for bad guys.
Sonshi: What musical instruments can you play and what instrument(s) have you focused on lately?
Teply: This is supposed to be a chapter itself. I'm from a doctors/musician family where men were professionals in these fields. I grew up on a variety of music genres, more often it was classical music and it still remains in my heart. It resonates well with my soul. My father and grandfather could play the violin very well, string instruments and harmonium (reed organ) which I firstly tried to play as well in my childhood. I never got much into these, although my interest was in place.
The very first time I tried to compose music myself was at the age of 9, where I got into one of the very first programmes called the Fast Tracker in DOS operation system. It was nothing but a bunch of harsh sounds. I haven't really continue too long with it as I had to learn the programming basics, the English language properly and get into admin/developer field of computing, which I later found as a headache. Then as I was in my twenties, right after my father sadly passed away I thought I should continue what I was interested in and that was electronic/computer music. Totally fascinated by the options with virtual instruments (which I could not afford to buy any live instruments back then, we lived in poverty, barely able to pay for food and rent). I started studying sound in general, physics and mathematics which are very important factors for every music producer with talent.
Since December 2007 I have produced over 50+ full vocaled tracks (actual releases), over 400 beats/instrumentals (around 100-120 was released), around 50 quite good remixes (which I like myself, I never got 1 000 000 views and I don't even wish to have that) which were all made from scratch, brand new blank Fruity Loops projects, quite a few instrumental sound tracks (I love to compose strings layered with piano accompanied with a selection of the sounds of my choice).
So to answer the question properly to the point: I can play any instrument virtually on keys and arrange the recorded pattern into the composition, make it a reasonable progression in harmony, dynamics and the integration of it into my own composition. If I be lucky enough I will one day have money to buy a couple of live instruments and start to play them. My goal is to start with the electric guitar and strings. Although I never composed music to fit into what many people want to hear, I always only tried to express myself with a couple of tones blended together.
The more I knew about music in total, the more I knew I'm still nowhere near my top levels. What I can assure everyone of is, that after quite few restless years which I dedicated to a genre called grime I become very unpredictable with the musical releases and my production is already a large variety of vibes. Now even deeper I'm exploring the ultrasonic frequencies and its healing abilities, the A=432hz,A=428hz music and solfeggio scales, vibrations and all very interesting aspects of music which is not what the radio and business people want me to do.
Another fact is that the best music and content from me is not even released yet and nothing but great vibes are coming in next couple of years (I'm just slow with uploads more often and artists let producers down every now and then). I do not wish to go mainstream and get into the point where my record label will tell me what to compose and how, I will always keep myself free from these obstacles and compose the music the way I want to, when I want to for the audience I want to reach. That's probably more than enough to say here. Thank you, a great question.
Sonshi: How do you start the process of transferring what you read in The Art of War to your music? Is it a logical method or an emotional one or both?
Teply: Regardless to what any other musician say I hear the music differently than most. The number one aspect is the energy and as I got challenged and drawn into ultimately defensive methods how to secure my existence, the first thing I'm focused on is the energy of mine at the time when I just stare at the empty project. Trying to describe my mood and energy at that time, which I somehow have to keep until the project is done. Which takes hours and hours.
Genre is just a label on top of it so I don't even try to fit into any genre until at least half of the project is done. The Art Of War instrumental (grime beat and actually now even the musical score which is called The Art Of War - Part2) has been composed in a couple of hours and I got highly influenced by the Asian culture and the way they deal with war. It's tactical, powerful and the energy is consistent and dominant. It required me to let go of overthinking and only express my emotions and logical reasons to compose that track.
The second version (part 2) which might define way better the Sun Tzu philosophy than the first track is much more musical and conceptual. It was actually Thomas Huynh from the sonshi.com who got me into this idea, as I thought that my instrumental was somehow good, yet not good enough to express the meaning and definition of the great Sun Tzu. It should work well as a sound track to some martial arts movie, which I'm a big fan of as well as the philosophy of Yin-Yang. Every life aspect can be applied into music and I would love to explore more of the good aspects and stay away from destructive and distorted vibes. It all affects our health through our senses.
Sonshi: When do you know that a musical piece is complete and you stop making changes?
Teply: This question is very difficult to explain and to define my answer. Every composition differs and it is only up to the producer when to stop making changes and improving the overall quality and concept of the track.
For me it's quite easier than rocket science is. I need to hear that each and every sound in the composition making sense and got its place in the composition. There should not be any sounds of progressions of any musical part of it which change the energy of the whole track into a different one. I know I'm partially wrong in this, yet I know I'm absolutely right. Look, if I'm lucky enough to cause my body go into a nice vibration and I got chills from the sounds I compose I know I should not add too much sauce on top of it and that I'm nearly done with it, rather than add too much sauce and lose the right vibrations or distort them by other sounds.
The mind of a listener can suffer from it as well if I do so. Sometimes, the less is more and it works well in the music. Ultimately there don't have to be always lows-mids-highs present and these can vary. As well as one should not expect the artist to paint the canvas the way everyone expects him to do and use all sorts of colours. Some paintings might make sense to you after third/fourth view of it. Some might make no sense to you even if you see them a hundred times. Then if you take a look from other points of view and lose your own way of perception, you might find the true meaning of the painting and become absolutely aware of the greatness of it.
I more often struggle with the need of perfection in everything I compose, so I remaster the whole project more often a couple of times in a couple of days of hearing it again and again. Yet one golden rule of mine is that the original energy should not change no matter what, I only correct errors after I'm done with it, which serves the purpose of the expression to the point. The less distraction, the clearer it would be.
Sonshi: What is your favorite verse in The Art of War?
Teply: To be very honest there is not even one sentence in the book which I might mark as nonsense or a lie. My favourite verses are these:
1. Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite circumstances.
(this verse applies to my life the best)
2. There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
(this verse applies to the music I compose the best)
3. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. / He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. / Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
(these three verses apply to my abilities in martial arts and in self defence, tactics I use if I be ever in the situation where I will have no options left to survive other than defend myself or someone I need to save before the attackers. I do Wing Chun Kung Fu as well as I picked a couple of moves from other martial arts, from childhood I used to train Karate, Tae Kwon Do and a couple of other moves from Kung Fu which I found very useful, only have to say I know only basics from these, while I'm advanced in the Wing Chun Kung Fu as my base.)
Sonshi: In addition to music and the martial arts, do you use The Art of War to improve upon the other areas of your life?
Teply: Absolutely, I do. When it comes to marketing and business as well as well being and strategically secured positions in my life which are tactically developed and guarded by any means. There are not just nice people around us, some people were born evil and I should be always prepared for these miserable guys. They better be good and avoid any conflicts with me, I don't play when it comes to it. And I'm sorry for being like that, that's what my life experience made me.
Although I'm a very kind, caring and friendly person, I use my instincts of an Aquarian and senses more often to negotiate the situations and to identify the people around me. I'm only peaceful when I'm surrounded by peaceful people. When it comes to groups of hateful people who are looking for a victim to take on I would love to apply my skills to stop them each and every time and try their skills and abilities as I'm very sure there are always some weak points of their own and they can't be aware of mine. That comes from the Art Of War as well. The knowledge, the strategy, the way of life.
Sonshi: Please share with us what you are currently working on and your goals for the future?
Teply: I'm currently working for the agency called GATE Czech as the operation executive manager on the project for Philip Morris, IQOS. Can't tell you more about it as it's the company's policy. Then I work on a number of projects as a music producer, one of them is called 'Project Unity', which is basically concept EP as the first instance which brings together Czech, English and American producers together again. It stands for anti-knife, anti-gun crime as well as a help out to those who need a bit of motivation and courage to get from the roads back into their homes to live their lives normally again.
Not many people know that I used to be a homeless 6 years ago and it broke me down totally as a person and my health (mental/physical) suffered badly from it. After all I only become stronger and much more successful than I ever was before in my life. Another project be quite quick one off release of The Art Of War part 2 which Thomas inspired me to do so (Yes, Thomas Huynh). In fact I would love to make a series of the music inspired by Sun Tzu under that name and be really diverse with it, infinite variety of sound designs.
Editor's Note: You can support Arne Teply's work at the follow web pages:
Website https://60pbeatz.wixsite.com/sixtypbeatz
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/sixtypbeatz
Soundcloud https://www.soundcloud.com/sixtypbeatz
[End of interview]