Chapter 22…1/2: Transparency
Posted by admin on July 21st, 2010 | 95 Comments »
So in my last post I spoke about what was going on in my mind while we were playing our first set up in Burlington Vermont. I confessed that I was stuck in my head and was not connecting to the music and that I was angry with myself for allowing that to happen. After I published the post, I questioned whether or not I had made a mistake in sharing such personal information with my fans and had gone to far, perhaps encroaching upon the “4th” wall as it’s called in the theater…the invisible wall that separates the audience from the fictional world that is being created on the stage.
When I started this blog it was based on my belief that with a clear vision, a shit load of hard work and an unwavering belief in oneself, anybody can accomplish anything in life. I set out to prove my theory by applying those same principles to becoming a world renown artist and I promised to share everything about my process with you all so that you could be part of a “real time” story. I promised transparency and at first, I shared mostly the actual steps I was taking to move my career forward and spread the word about my music. After my first couple of chapters I got some feedback that people wanted more from me…that they wanted not only to hear the happenings of how I was growing my business, but more so the emotional and creative experiences that I was having in this artistic journey. In other words, a public diary or an online journal.
Taking this feedback I felt that I may run the risk of revealing too much of myself in such a public forum but I took the risk and wrote about my inner processes as much as my outer ones. However, after my last post I began to question whether this was actually the right approach to take. My fear is that by so clearly breaking down the “4th wall” so to speak, in sharing any fears or insecurities that have something to do with my creative and musical processes, I may be removing some of the “magic” that is part of being a performer, almost like a magician sharing how he does all of his tricks.
On the other hand though, I know of no artist that shares themselves and their processes to help inspire others to believe that they too can pursue anything in life. I felt that if I chose full transparency as I promised in my initial post when I began this blog, that by showing people my own creative processes, it might help shed some light on their own as well. By showing my “human-ness” so to speak…the commonality that we all have fears, insecurities and self doubt, and by thus, making those things public I would help inspire others to not be held back by their own inner deamons, and instead chose a different path as I try to do every day.
So I am still up in the air about how to proceed. I will keep you all posted. But as of now…I have deleted my last post…hence this being chapter 22…and 1/2.
Zach
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Tristan Axelrod on July 27, 2010 at 6:44 am:
There’s a saying that ‘you can’t be a hero in your hometown.’ That’s what you’re getting at: that people can’t idolize you and buy into your fictional artistic world if they know too much about you as a person. Ask Linsdsay Lohan about that much.
You have to choose between being cool and mysterious and amazing and being an open-book intellectual/spiritual soul mate to your entire audience. I would argue that all successful artists and even religious figures choose the former while convincing the audience they’ve chosen the latter.
I guess what I’m saying is, the answer to this dilemma is to develop a facade for your audience to relate to, and think of yourself as a character you’ve created, instead of the real Zach Maxwell. Then you can feel like a performer and a connector at the same time, and if you yourself enjoy and respect your character, you won’t feel like you’ve sold out. I guarantee you that’s what every successful artist does. -
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