Anna Pidgorna

Composer | Vocalist | Visual Artist

Tag: music industry

  • Bundle Update

    I’ve been lost in opera/thesis land for a while, hiding out in my parents’ jungle-like garden home. I haven’t been keeping up with the outside world all that well (the vegetation is thick!), but I bring you a few updates on older stuff and a peek at a new initiative to promote experimental music. A…

  • Why should I ‘like’ you?

    I was recently asked by an arts organization if I visited/became a fan of their Facebook page. The question painfully reminded me of all the sad looking signs I see outside bars and gas stations demanding that I ‘like’ them on Facebook. My first and only question is always, “Why?” What does ‘liking’ you get…

  • Crowdfunding as a leveraging tool

    Crowdfunding is a platform that allows many people to contribute varying amounts of money towards a project. It is the idea of patronage broken up into small pieces allowing a multitude of dedicated and curious people to participate in the creation process. The idea has been very successfully implemented digitally through websites like Kickstarter and…

  • Trained to look for a job

    “Culture changes to match the economy, not the other way around. The economy needed an institution that would churn out compliant workers, so we built it. Factories didn’t happen because there were schools; schools happened because there were factories. The reason so many people grow up to look for a job is that the economy…

  • Economies of Paper Sizes

    Recently, I had to produce a set of parts for my new ensemble piece, The Unanswered. The whole experience got me thinking about paper size and its effect on cost. I had to format said parts according to the MOLA Guidelines for Music Preparation, which suggests parts with a staff size of no less than…