I sat down with Big Torrin at Chesapeake City Park on a Saturday afternoon. I asked questions about his ministry in music, The Producer's Lounge, morals, artificial intelligence, and self-representation in the music industry. The dialogue flows smoothly and has a seamless transition, leading us into Big Torrin's process of creating eight albums, a sense of contained freedom, and watching his father play the piano.

Big Torrin is from Norfolk, Virginia. He was born in Portsmouth, and he believes Virginia's entertainment is for family-oriented people and is kid-friendly. For his well-being, Torrin plays the piano once a week at the Chrysler Museum of Art after clocking out of his day job as a preschool music teacher. When it comes to producing and connecting with artists, it's a free motion. He has a beat ready, or they can create from scratch. Big Torrin is using the gift that God gave him.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): Speaking of the gift that God gave you, let's talk about the beat-making process, the difference between making a beat from scratch, sampling a track, and creating music for a film.

Big Torrin (Interviewee): When it comes to producing and linking up with an artist, it's a free motion. I have beats ready for the artist's idea, or we can create from scratch. It's creativity and openness. Doing it with film composing, it's a production, so normally in post-production, after everything is shot, that's when the film composer creates the emotion, so I have to do everything in the mindset that this is not about me, it's about the production overall.

In addition, Big Torrin plays multiple instruments. He plays the drum set, bass, percussion instruments like bongos, and he recently learned the violin. His favorite instruments to play are the organ and piano. Big Torrin's passion for music comes from his mother and father. His father was the organist at the church where he grew up, and his mother was the choir director. The young Big Torrin, at the age of eight or nine, would watch his father's hand movements on the piano. This helped him learn how to play the piano.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): What is your ministry in music?

Big Torrin (Interviewee): I administer the musical aspects of a service; it is a skill, and I know how to understand the environment. I can shift the emotion of playing. I can follow the speaker and match their emotion. So it's everything that deals with that atmosphere of that position. I am authentic with the things I do, and I enjoy it. The ministry is when we come together, we make a joyful noise. Joyful noise is the combination of sounds, whether it's a person linking up as a producer, and then as the session progresses, these artists express what they're going through in life, and it turns into a therapy session.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): Right, and I was just going to ask you that. Is your ministry a way for you to help people with their emotions, feelings, and spirituality?

Big Torrin (Interviewee): That's a great question, and it seems it's been going that way for quite some time now, unknowingly, even for people low in confidence and who have a traumatic past or childhood trauma that prevents them from doing the mechanics of the work. I am fuel for those people because I was once that person. Everybody has their journey, but a person should have some form of progression.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): What are your thoughts on the process of healing from trauma, trials, and tribulations?

Big Torrin (Interviewee): We hear the word healing, but there's a root before getting to the healing. Something happened, and if we can figure out what happened, identify it, and be aware that we can heal. One needs to know oneself, whether it's through the bible. Some people didn't have the words "healing" or "therapy" growing up; it's just a word. We have to figure out ways to make it work for ourselves, so I'll say for myself, I go to the museums. I'll travel to museums. I like to incorporate that in my daily life.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): It's like being patient with ourselves and knowing it's a process.

Big Torrin (Interviewee): Enjoying the process, while the process may feel unknown.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): The unknown, so speaking of the process and the unknown, I have also seen that you have eight albums and eight singles. Could you talk about the process of creating the music?

Big Torrin (Interviewee): Every process is a different process because those eight albums are different. Some albums were meditative, instrumental, and made long in advance. I am a mood setter. When I put out an album, they all come with a certain vibration that flows, so if it's on shuffle, it feels like it's going from one to the end. Curating those comes with a certain consistency; you have to discipline yourself to get an outcome. You see an outcome, follow it up with an action, and with the action, it's a planning course before the action. You lay out your goals, then go into your action plan. Then you expect problems, but you continue towards your goals. Eight albums come with having money to put on as if I'm with Distrokid and other platforms.

Big Torrin was in the chorus, but he didn't excel in mastering music theory. He learned music theory in his late twenties. Knowing music theory depends on the environment. He knows that music theory is essential.

In the interview, Big Torrin and Clifton Williamson discuss morals, representation, and AI in the music industry. AI possessing a machinery consciousness exposes the weaknesses of artificial intelligence. It's about the human prompting the AI. The artificial intelligence still needs guidance. If humans are prompting good into the AI, we will get good. If humans are prompting bad into the AI, we will get bad.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): Do you prefer performing solo or with a band?

Big Torrin (Interviewee): Seasons change. This season required my well-being needs to be elevated to see new places. I prefer both performing solo and with a band. Individually, I get to do what I need to do; with a band, I manage myself in that field. It comes with integrity and balance, making sure the people around you are good emotionally and financially.

Clifton Williamson (Interviewer): When other people are involved, we have to be mindful, but there is a peace of mind when doing things solo.

Big Torrin has a band of his own. Those band members are members who hold quality and have lives outside of music. Listen to the band Fusion Groove perform "I Want To Be With You".