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Interview: Gwen Reed, Double Bassist

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Who or what inspired you to take up the double bass and pursue a career in music?

My entire family are musicians, so I have always grown up around music. It was never forced on me, but when I was four I saw a school orchestra with a violin soloist and told my mom I wanted to play that too! I didn’t switch to double bass until many years later, when the music played by my own school orchestra wasn’t challenging enough for me on the violin, that I decided to pick up a new instrument. I saw the double basses at the back of the class and just fell in love. I also secretly wanted to join the jazz band instead, so it worked out perfectly.

Who or what were the most important influences on your musical life and career?

My teachers and the musical community I grew up in have always been a huge source of inspiration for me. While Tucson, Arizona might not be known for its musicians, it has a wonderful music scene that was always encouraging to me as a young musician. I would perform recitals and gigs for musicians I had known my entire life, who would always give me new opportunities to challenge me and introduce me to different aspects of the life of a working musician. The chances I was given to perform with the professional musicians from a young age kept me inspired to work hard and always be striving to be the best I can be.

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What Should You Write To Casting Directors?

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So, how do I write to them?

  1. Research. To grab somebody’s attention, you need to know what they want and what they need. Then you need to be the solution to their problems.
  2. Introduce yourself.Who are you, and what is it about you that would pique their interest?
  3. Decide exactly what you are writing to them about.Choose one thing, one thing only and be clear, concise and straight to the point.
  4. Ask them for ONE action (unless it’s a thank you- in which case I’d keep it as just that). What do you want them to do?
  5. Think up a catchy subject line that reflects the reason you are getting in touch.
  6. What materials are you going to send?I would recommend always including your headshot, Spotlight link or CV and website.

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Dance Moves That Are Scientifically Proven To Be Sexy

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The study was published Thursday in Scientific Reports by a group of researchers based at Northumbria University, who previously identified the sexiest dance moves for men. Whereas the best male dance moves were centralized in the upper body, the best female dance moves centered around the hips, thighs, and arms.

Here’s an example of what the paper found to be a ‘good’ female dancer, performed by an over-sexualized avatar:

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Interview: Cate Blanchett

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How, as an actress, have you seen that borne out when you’re playing the part? Is it just a feeling in the air, is it that laugh lines are slightly different…?

As an actor on stage, the audience often thinks that they’re there to be entertained, but they’re a vital, active component of the evening. It’s not about laughter, necessarily; it’s quality of listening. Broadway audiences are so literate: They love theater, they love being told stories, they love a surprise. And that, coupled with the current — it’s not even a political climate, it’s like a moral climate — has meant that the play’s been attended to in a slightly different way.

I think we’re all so hyperaware of our relationships to the truth right now, and to our sense of objectivity, in every interaction we have throughout a day.

Language is incredibly powerful: the words we choose to use, and how we choose to use them. I remember ages ago, the word “evil” was purloined, and it’s been very bewildering to me watching the word “refugee” morph into the word “immigrant” morph into the word “terrorist” within the space of nine months. “Truth” is an immutable word: Something is true or it is not. Theater, actually, its currency is language.

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Why Your Brain Likes Music?

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Because music tickles the same brain system as sex and drugs.

“The fact that music listening triggers a well-defined neurochemical response suggests an evolutionary origin for music,” Adiel Mallik writes, with the caveat that you shouldn’t over-interpret the results. “[I]t is also possible that music has developed to exploit an already existing reward system that evolved for other purposes, such as recognizing and responding appropriately to various human and animal vocalizations,” researchers add. Like the saying goes, one species’ howl is another’s bass drop.

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