I work them, so I never just go and attend them - the experience is so much better when you're "in". I love the interaction, quite love the babysitting part of it even.
Also when I enjoy it, I will tell them & and it always work because artists know that if the local tech found them good, that same dude who see so much stuff day-in, day-out, it (probably) means something.
You meet jerks, of course. You learn to provide them with minimal service, but clean and decent for the public. You meet fantastic people who fail to make it through to the audience, and that's heartbreaking. You learn to put 200% of yourself into a musical style you don't enjoy because the dudes on stage are killing it and the audience is loving it - who cares if Jazz Manouche is the most boring, written down and set in stone style ever.
My most stupid interaction was, at the end of a programme that included both Chopin and Steve Reich, to tell the Reich' piece clarinetist "sometimes, Chopin is boring. Especially in regard to Reich". The Guy was in agreement lol.
Aaaah, Arrival ! Je savais pas qu'il s'appelait comme ça en français.
Ben j'ai envie de lire le bouquin maintenant, j'ai adoré le film. En même temps ce film repose énormément sur ses visuels, je sais pas comment ça passe à l'écrit
Si tu penses à "Contact" avec Jodie Foster en 1997 par Zemeckis, non ça c'est Carl Sagan qui est un grand monsieur dont j'ai du mal avec l'écriture, ça a un peu vieilli. Un humaniste, assez optimiste, qui sonne un peu nunuche dans la réalité d'aujourd'hui malheureusement.
Cawdron c'est tout moderne, enfin assez moderne puisqu'il n'a pas écrit 30 bouquins en 3 semaines non plus. D'où la présence de la montée des intolérances, de l'envahissement des réseaux sociaux, de l'intelligence artificielle etc. dans ses romans.
Je suis dans la série "first contact" de Peter Cawdron, série sans continuité sauf le thème qui est donc celui de la première rencontre extraterrestre. C'est étonnamment varié, aborde la question sous plein d'angles et en profite, à travers ce biais, à regarder l'humain et ses valeurs, erhique etc. IA, clones, guerre, tout y passe et encore, je n'en ai lu que 5 sur une trentaine.
Il est dispo sur kindle unlimited, ce qui me fait grincer des dents mais après échange avec lui sur Mastodon, pour un auteur indépendant c'est malheureusement la seule solution qui lui permet de gagner sa vie.
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I work them, so I never just go and attend them - the experience is so much better when you're "in". I love the interaction, quite love the babysitting part of it even.
Also when I enjoy it, I will tell them & and it always work because artists know that if the local tech found them good, that same dude who see so much stuff day-in, day-out, it (probably) means something.
You meet jerks, of course. You learn to provide them with minimal service, but clean and decent for the public. You meet fantastic people who fail to make it through to the audience, and that's heartbreaking. You learn to put 200% of yourself into a musical style you don't enjoy because the dudes on stage are killing it and the audience is loving it - who cares if Jazz Manouche is the most boring, written down and set in stone style ever.
My most stupid interaction was, at the end of a programme that included both Chopin and Steve Reich, to tell the Reich' piece clarinetist "sometimes, Chopin is boring. Especially in regard to Reich". The Guy was in agreement lol.