Losing your love of music and feeling bleh about it all? This podcast about Musical Burnout might be music to your ears. (Pun defo intended) https://t.co/T5qhdxARKF
Delighted to have been quoted in this fantastic article, "The Art of Reinvention: Names, Identity, and the Freedom to Begin Again." Always great to share insights on the role of aliases in electronic music! Give it a read. 🎧 https://t.co/DoVFBxLuUV
***Calling all artists, creatives, and performers***: this might be your cuppa to untangle some things together. We have two spaces left... https://t.co/Cg6AhiZded
Does the idea of being seen fill you with dread? 'The Inner Spotlight' is a new 6-week group starting soon, designed to help you untangle your performance anxiety. https://t.co/Cg6AhiYFoF
What if your performance anxiety has positive intentions for you? What might it be trying to protect you from? What would you be doing instead if your stage fright was not there? Registration is now open!
Playing an evocative line-up of flute music written by female composers at this Inspiring Women Network Gala Celebration in Cornwall. https://t.co/w0FwkZn1sS
A blind date where you have no idea whether your date will be bored, reserved, or enthralled by you. Imagine you stuck with that energy for the next few hours but you being the one to keep the date going. That's not so different to what a soloist does performing on stage.
There could be more spoken in the music industry about the fact that musicians that are in the limelight --and yet also have a history of PTSD/highly complex trauma-- can re-experience 'the audience' as the abuser.
What happens when the stage transforms from a place of joy into a source of fear? How can it be addressed through psychotherapy? Here is an interview I did about this exact topic... https://t.co/bNPnkIJ1tZ #musicperformanceanxiety#MPA#psychotherapyformusicians
@JWHallBaritone@CrossEyedPiano I think the issue I encounter working with composers in the therapy space is the problem of who gets to decide who is a new grown up butterfly to be seen and who is still in the cocoon ... just a thought from the other side!
I have to say, I'm always happy to see opportunities for "emerging composers" instead of "young composers"... not everyone finds their voice while they're "young".