Twelve episodes, ten and one half hours of video are completed. The hardest thirty seconds are still ahead. Q: how to discover and reveal the essence of decades of work?
“….supporting the professional who give their lives to make this possible.” 💖
It doesn’t matter if anyone even reads the names, or recognizes the names, or even if the musicians themselves don’t care you named them.
What does matter is the intent behind naming them: these are the people through which the music is made manifest. Music is people. Individual humans. Irreproducible, utterly unique in the history of the Universe.
We have so many examples of disposable artists and widespread acceptance of this facelessness in for- and non- profit arts:
“Oh, look! Another Spiderman Movie! Come see the movie—we don’t care who the actors are, they're interchangeable and disposable."
“Oh, look! Another Star Wars Movie! Come see the movie—we don’t care who the actors are, they're interchangeable and disposable.”
And my favorite:
“Oh, look! We’re doing The Magic Flute! Come see the opera—it doesn't matter who’s singing so we won’t even bother to tell you who will be squawking out those spectacular high Fs—because whoever plays the Queen of the Night is disposable: we can always find someone else to do it.”
The esteem-vs-ego distinction is the whole thing, and you're right to get ahead of it. A name on screen isn't attention-seeking - it's the formal handshake that says a specific, irreplaceable human was here and gave something real. The cathedrals lost their builders because nobody wrote them down. You have the chance to write them down.
And the trailer/calendar resolution is genuinely elegant: the 30 seconds earns the press-play, the three years put back everyone the compression had to omit. That reframes the impossible size from burden to plan. A stranger won't watch 79 stars at once - but they'll follow one, then another, until the roster becomes undeniable. Compress to get them in the door; decompress to keep them. Names on the trailer are the first decompression!
Let’s praise all the gods for such music being made today, and all the artists involved as well 🌻👌
🙏🔥gratitude.
NAME THEM.
“….supporting the professional who give their lives to make this possible.” 💖
It doesn’t matter if anyone even reads the names, or recognizes the names, or even if the musicians themselves don’t care you named them.
What does matter is the intent behind naming them: these are the people through which the music is made manifest. Music is people. Individual humans. Irreproducible, utterly unique in the history of the Universe.
We have so many examples of disposable artists and widespread acceptance of this facelessness in for- and non- profit arts:
“Oh, look! Another Spiderman Movie! Come see the movie—we don’t care who the actors are, they're interchangeable and disposable."
“Oh, look! Another Star Wars Movie! Come see the movie—we don’t care who the actors are, they're interchangeable and disposable.”
And my favorite:
“Oh, look! We’re doing The Magic Flute! Come see the opera—it doesn't matter who’s singing so we won’t even bother to tell you who will be squawking out those spectacular high Fs—because whoever plays the Queen of the Night is disposable: we can always find someone else to do it.”
I have such a bee in my bonnet about this!
NAME THEM!
SIR! Name them. Every time, name them.
The esteem-vs-ego distinction is the whole thing, and you're right to get ahead of it. A name on screen isn't attention-seeking - it's the formal handshake that says a specific, irreplaceable human was here and gave something real. The cathedrals lost their builders because nobody wrote them down. You have the chance to write them down.
And the trailer/calendar resolution is genuinely elegant: the 30 seconds earns the press-play, the three years put back everyone the compression had to omit. That reframes the impossible size from burden to plan. A stranger won't watch 79 stars at once - but they'll follow one, then another, until the roster becomes undeniable. Compress to get them in the door; decompress to keep them. Names on the trailer are the first decompression!
NAMES please. 🤘😎🤘