Just wanted to say a big thank you to workshop participants Julia, Flavia and Zak at today’s workshop “Inventive Reality”.
The success of every workshop that I lead doesn’t depend just on me .. it also depends on the commitment, the enthusiasm and the willingness of the participants to dive in and contribute to the overall groupthink. This was a really great group and truly a pleasure to work with.
The focus of the workshop was creating innovative documentaries out of everyday experiences, and to merge objective facts with subjective impressions. The way I describe this process is .. imagine what would happen if you sent a reporter and a poet to the same event, put them in the same room and told them to come up with a piece in three hours.
Even though I am often cast in the role of “teacher” these days, the ideas we explored today reminds me that I am always learning too. And that my own personal creativity also depends on the community of others who understand what I do, and why.
Thanks to New Adventures in Sound Art for hosting this workshop, and my friends Nadene Theriault Copeland and Darren Copeland.
Watch the NAISA website and this blog for details about Deep Wireless, Naisa’s Radio Art Festival which happens in May.
