isn't liminality a wonderful thing?
*disclaimer: this is a blog for personal venting. nothing more. please do not misinterpret as a directed attack*
so i'm starting to get impatient. i've been in limbo for weeks.
first there was the audition, then some waiting. then the letter, with 'conditional' acceptance, then some waiting, then the recording last month, aaand more waiting...
the Conduct Becoming cd is scheduled to be released march 31st- 3 weeks from tomorrow. there is a live show at the pub featuring performances by the accepted musicians. lenny wants to play base for my song, since he missed out on the opportunity during the recording of the actual track. to do so he'll have to first learn the song, then get time off work for it.
but, before he goes through the hassel, it'd be really great to actually know whether or not i'm even on the darn thing. i would assume, that with the release in 3 weeks, they must have a pretty decent idea of which artists they're putting on it. [since production of the cd itself requires having the tracks organized, burned, named, and group info put onto the cd jacket.. all of which can't be done in a day.]
*shrugs* but what do i know, maybe informing the musicians isn't first priority. wouldn't be the first time producers gave their artists the back seat in the music industry.
*disclaimer: this is a blog for personal venting. nothing more. please do not misinterpret as a directed attack*
so i'm starting to get impatient. i've been in limbo for weeks.
first there was the audition, then some waiting. then the letter, with 'conditional' acceptance, then some waiting, then the recording last month, aaand more waiting...
the Conduct Becoming cd is scheduled to be released march 31st- 3 weeks from tomorrow. there is a live show at the pub featuring performances by the accepted musicians. lenny wants to play base for my song, since he missed out on the opportunity during the recording of the actual track. to do so he'll have to first learn the song, then get time off work for it.
but, before he goes through the hassel, it'd be really great to actually know whether or not i'm even on the darn thing. i would assume, that with the release in 3 weeks, they must have a pretty decent idea of which artists they're putting on it. [since production of the cd itself requires having the tracks organized, burned, named, and group info put onto the cd jacket.. all of which can't be done in a day.]
*shrugs* but what do i know, maybe informing the musicians isn't first priority. wouldn't be the first time producers gave their artists the back seat in the music industry.
posted by Suzanne Zappia at 9:33 PM
2 Comments:
Starting to get tired. I've been working on this for months. First there were the auditions that lasted weeks and instead of the intended week. Then there was narrowing down a field of over 200 performers to a list called "conditional" that included as many people as we thought we possibly could include on the CD.
Then the recording in two studios, in two provinces. Then the part few know about including spending two weeks re-writing a 114 page business plan, in the hope of winning a business plan competetion prize, to pay for the CD this year - while Mike was in the studio 12 hours a day mastering all of the songs in the hopes that we could somehow fit 20 tracks within 75 minutes of available CD time.
With 3 weeks to go, we have an excellent idea of who we'd be like to be on the CD; it's called the "conditional list", which you poke fun at. Keep in mind that there are 150 people who didn't make it onto the conditional list at all.
We don't know yet however how many of these conditional tracks we can fit on the CD.
So while you may have found it uncomfortable waiting to hear back about your track, I can assure you that it is a better alternative to us telling you were going to be on the album and then not ending up being able to put you on for whatever reason.
If I wanted to give musicians a "back seat" I would have not had a conditional list at all. I would have picked 14-16 tracks and just recorded them and saved myself 4 days of recording and a lot of my own money spent on travelling. Doing that though would have meant that 20 fewer musicians could have been involved in the project, including you.
As the executive producer, when you name me specifically "producers", it sounds pretty directed.
i know you've put in a lot of work.
i was in no way "poking fun" at the conditional list- i thought it was a nice gesture to make opportunities for those who may not make it on the cd.
i was venting.
like i said right off the bat.
if you want to vent too, use your own blog.
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