It is invariably not what you think it is...

We live in a world where a constellation of cognitive illusions – that infinite growth can be sustained on a finite planet, that consumerism can make us happy, that corporations are persons – are dragging us into an ecological apocalypse. These cognitive illusions won’t disappear because they’ve been proven false – they must be overcome at a deeper level. We need something other than rationality, statistics, scientific thought … we need something more, even, than what has passed for activism thus far. We must spark an epiphany, a worldwide flash of insight that renders our blind spots visible once and for all. This collective awakening begins the moment we look inward and ask ourselves: Am I caught inside a grand cognitive illusion?

Ethical sites for soundtracks

These sites directly support the artists you use for your shows and dance and performance music.

have at it.....

https://www.withetiquette.com/

http://www.themusicbed.com/

Seth Godin is wise to pricing talent

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/talent-and-vendors.html

You may be purchasing services from people with magical talents (artists) and it's a mistake to confuse them with vendors.
As we get more and more service oriented, it's an easy mistake to make. You're busy buying cleaning services or consulting or design, and sometimes the person you're working with is a vendor, and sometimes they're not--they're an artist, "the talent."
A vendor is someone who exists to sell you something. It doesn't always matter to the vendor what's being sold, as long as it's being sold and paid for.
The quality of what's being delivered is rarely impacted by the method of transaction. The turnips will still show up, the house will still get painted. You can send an RFP to a vendor, bid it out, get the lowest price, sign the contract and if you write the contract properly, will get what you ordered.
The quality of the work you get from the talent changes based on how you work with her.
That's the key economic argument for the distinction: if you treat an artist like a vendor, you'll often get mediocre results in return. On the other hand, if you treat a vendor like an artist, you'll waste time and money.
Vendors happily sit in the anonymous cubes at Walmart's headquarters, waiting for the buyer to show up and dicker with them. They willingly fill out the paperwork and spend hours discussing terms and conditions. The vendor is agnostic about what's being sold, and is focused on volume, or at least consistency.
While the talent is also getting paid (to be in your movie, to do consulting, to coach you), she is not a vendor. She's not playing by the same rules and is not motivated in the same way.
A key element of the distinction is that in addition to the varying output potential, vendors are easier to replace than talent is.
Target understood this when they reached out to Michael Graves to design a line of goods that sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of items. When I interviewed Michael a few years ago, he had nothing but great things to say about the way Target invited him in and gave him the ability to do his work. Threadless embraces this when they treat the designers of their t-shirts in a non-corporate way. Etsy is built on this single truth.
Most industry is built on vendor relationships, and vendors expect (and sometimes value) the impersonal nature of their relationships. This scales... until you lump in the talent.
Should you treat vendors with respect? No doubt about it. Human beings do their best work when they're treated fairly and with enthusiasm. But when the provider is also digging deep to put something on the table that you can't possibly write a spec for, you're going to have to respond in kind.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/talent-and-vendors.html



Astonishing.

Live and studio beatboxing

First there was



then it evolved via experimentation and this is a more refined application

Kumbaya for idiots.

So It's quite deft, it's not about what you want, our culture goes to great lengths to bind us to the idea that lifes about what we wish for. New this, bigger that, happiness as we imagine it just round the corner. Quite sad really as we marinate in a lifetimes succession of micro victories like grains of salt seasoning a quite purid soup of constant unfulfilment.

So my theory is the answer lies in finding things that only you can do, and doing them. I dance on stilts and am a disgruntled clown, I also write. I do one or more of these things every day and they meld without any effort on my part. They all have me in common.I have a unique group of eccentric creative friends, in large part because like them I've focused on finding something only I can do. When I meet people I look for what it is that no-one else does. Everyone has something.

It doesn't matter what it is, you are unique, find a way to express that and make some effort every day in that regard and you will find peace and you will find power.

Dogtroep; Site Specific Theatre