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one of my recurring talking points to anybody who's willing to listen: any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned on something can create powerful vectors by producing public-facing work that's directed at each other talking about the creation of scenes, basically
a lot of scenes falter bc the alignment isn't sufficiently "true", and bc there aren't enough good people to hold it together this is my unhappy assessment of the problem with many arts scenes music & literature scenes are full of ppl who care about neither music & literature
what's a minimum viable scene? if you have two sufficiently obsessive people who are trying to impress and outdo each other in public, two is enough but usually it seems that it takes a broader/wider scene to generate 2 such obsessive people https://t.co/N3qBkYWy12
in reality scenes seem to need like, idk, 2 dozen people you need the conflict and collaboration and one-upmanship to push people far out of homeostasis https://t.co/K0nfEiE2iO
I beat this drum periodically to find the others sad thing is that there aren't actually very many others few people have any real creative vision, any real ambition I'm not trying to be mean, it's just true reason to stay optimistic nevertheless: we only need a few people
@visakanv https://t.co/SFmSqA4MID
an additional confounding factor: not only do most people not have any real creative vision or ambition... many people entertain themselves by PRETENDING that they do most people want their lives to be sitcoms that pretend to be adventures https://t.co/vEsESFYja4
A funny thing to discover is how many people like to play-pretend that they are more adventurous, more irreverent and naughty (βmet my partner-in-crime!β) than they actually are. This is a super common social pretense. True weirdos donβt have this luxury https://t.co/EeibMr9Cym
but if you can make the leap and decide that you're an adventurer, and then, by going on small adventures, find the other adventurers, then you can pool your energies and resources and go on BIG adventures. I always suspected this to be true, and my knowledge of it has grown https://t.co/3jSwLlEBUL
the purpose of this thread was for me to find Matt πππΎ today's mission: accomplished. I always take note of people who manage blogs and moderate communities β they know what it's actually like to be in the arena and make the tradeoffs https://t.co/aajtrYBxTj
It's interesting to reflect on how my frustration has shifted over the years I used to be frustrated that people didn't care (why don't Singaporeans support local music?!?!) then I got frustrated that artists didn't care (why are local musicians quibbling over dumb shit?!?)
but now I realize the only thing that matters is finding True Artists and supporting and challenging them, and the bottleneck there is my own thinking, my own behavior a summary: 2007: fuck everyone 2013: fuck you guys 2015: fuck Visa 2019: there is no fuck π
π§πΎββοΈ https://t.co/wWmhJ9bvVY
a flourishing scene is a context where people unblock each other at a tremendous rate https://t.co/cQkJ0Xfgcn
@visakanv specialization https://t.co/71Qz2Omq0H
16. composers during 1750-1899 were significantly more productive when they lived in close proximity to other composers (via @tedgioia, h/t @EashanKotha) https://t.co/iXMQgUOE2v https://t.co/QIc65CeXq1
17. Muscle Beach https://t.co/m07hLzLmWn
@visakanv I've been thinking about creating an epistolary blog or something like that, and that seems really relevant to this thread. https://t.co/lToWOArv0S
@visakanv do you have any tips for finding a scene? my irl friends have pretty divergent interests from me and online spaces often feel like either people lobbing their work over the fence or just discussing a topic without producing public-facing work... do i have to build it myself