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Curating your own life soundtrack
Posted: January 26, 2006
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Jeffrey Zaslow has a cute piece in the Wall Street Journal about creating a more intentional soundtrack to his daily activities through his iPod. Like a good journalist, he asks some experts on the subject of soundtracks for advice and insight -- a film director, a television series creator, a major studio executive.
The process struck me as a fascinating public conversation for any local music-based organization -- symphony, presenter, radio station, whatever -- with their communities. How would your artistic director curate the music of his/her life -- getting the kids on the school bus, driving to work, sitting in a meeting, eating a sandwich, etc? And how would members of your audience score the same activities?
At the core of the question is how people weave music into their daily lives, or how they might if they added some intention to the process. Along the way, you'd be exploring music as identity, music as emotional support, music as escape, music as connected to the world, and the creative challenge of curating expressive works.
Not a bad conversation to have.