AIDA looks melancholy city pigeons behind & wonders whether artists: inside & creative people are not more similar to them than they admit it
Did you know that: Every city pigeon that gets on your nerves with her cubes on the balcony is the descendant of an ancient pigeon that was lost on the way home. Since I learned from an article in a city magazine in Berlin a few years ago, I have been looking at the birds much more conciliatory, which regularly the farm … let’s say: fertilize. Because we don’t want to go home somehow? And have lost the way?
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House and racing pigeons were bred not to be shy about people. On the contrary: they want to be where people are, the artist Joseph Earp wrote in the Guardian about city pigeons in early August. And now, now they go to the mind. And the more we try to eradicate them, the more they plant, survival instinct and such.
From urban pigeons to creativity: a comparison of the survival strategies of artists: inside
“What she actually talks about,” you may think, and yes, you are right: city pigeons and their tragic history don’t have much to do with pop culture and politics. But I have often been thinking about it lately – looking for a way home, from the misery in which we are all in, out, to productivity in response to shitty circumstances, in search of closeness and comfort if we actually only oppose rejection.
Perhaps those of us who like to create art themselves are a bit like pigeons in some form. There is no longer a way back to a media world in which you can live on record sales, books, from writing articles, or to make a small film every few years. Any attempt to come back there is doomed to failure and still traps many like lost pigeons behind this ideal. And the number of art and cultural workers explodes, because the production of music or films in particular has never been easier than today, access has never been possible to a broader mass than today.
Artist: inside in the digital age
And in principle this is a good thing if we briefly ignore the use of so-called AI tools, the YouTube and Tiktok With Weirden cat horror stories and music platforms With country porn songs flooded. But apart from these absolutely disturbing developments: more people work creatively, which in case of doubt always makes the world a little better than worse. But that also means: it is hardly possible to keep an overview of the endless flood of content. And if in doubt, this leads where? That we hold on what was.
I was recently at a party, and it was pretty tasty all the time, current music – but the dance floor just didn’t want to get full. Only when the next person stood behind the DJ desk and spilled one well-known cracker after the other did the dance floor fill up. But the recent cracks in Question had appeared in the mid -2010s at the latest before the algorithms of the streaming platforms continued to set up and individualized on their listeners. The result now? It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a song on which everyone, and I really mean everyone, can agree. From the youngest guests of the party, who were probably already attributable to alpha, to the elders who might even fall under Baby Boomer.
Content flood and the search for attention
Sure, every year there are a few songs that manage to break through this attention threshold. Chappell Roans “Good Luck Babe”, for example, or doechiis “Anxiety” this year. But it feels less every year, as I wrote a few weeks ago. In addition, there are of course thousands that don’t even make the big hit. Or want to create, because not everyone wants to land in the mainstream. But completely under the mass of publications, that’s not the goal. So everyone will also become influencers: on the inside on their own behalf – of course, because how else should you get attention today? Only: Even on social media, it is becoming increasingly difficult to emphasize with your own content. And so we all continue to feed the machine, driven by a kind of survival instinct, as it should be familiar with the pigeons we have so known.
The hamster wheel of self -marketing: is there a way out?
Is there a solution to get out of this hamster wheel – or rather: this city pigeon nest? I don’t know either. But at least I am sure about one thing: we only get through there. In the United States, for example, Dhe musician: Inner union United Musicians and Allied Workerswhich occurs to ensure that the streaming platforms not only pay for money that are really heard – but also a second payment form is introduced, the musicians: on the inside a “living”, that is, a salary from which you can live. That would in particular newcomers: interior and artists: inside the worker: indoor class. Five fingers are a fist, it means so beautiful. Time to go back to the pigeon strike.