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Working Interviews: Blending Fieldwork and Technical Work on Tour with Cirque du Soleil (2020)
Journal Article
Danson Faraday, J. (2020). Working Interviews: Blending Fieldwork and Technical Work on Tour with Cirque du Soleil. Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, 40(1), 77-91. https://doi.org/10.7202/1096480ar

Abstract For Cirque du Soleil’s touring arena show Corteo, music is a central feature of every performance. In this article, I focus on Corteo’s touring sound technicians, who play an essential role in the show’s musical presentation. I discuss a me... Read More about Working Interviews: Blending Fieldwork and Technical Work on Tour with Cirque du Soleil.

Monitors, Masculinity, and Compromise on a Cirque du Soleil Arena Tour
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Danson Faraday, J. (2024, April). Monitors, Masculinity, and Compromise on a Cirque du Soleil Arena Tour. Paper presented at British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2024, Cork, Ireland

When a musician performing with a large-scale production can hear themselves onstage, it is thanks to a dedicated infrastructure and a behind-the-scenes team of specialised workers. In this paper, I examine the hidden labour of the monitor technician... Read More about Monitors, Masculinity, and Compromise on a Cirque du Soleil Arena Tour.

Local Stagehands and Large-Scale Tours
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Danson Faraday, J. (2024, February). Local Stagehands and Large-Scale Tours. Presented at Live Sound Studies Symposium 2024, Online

Managing the audio infrastructure for large-scale touring productions depends not just on a team of touring technicians, but also on groups of locally hired stagehands. For large-scale tours, local stagehands are the backbone of any load-in or load-o... Read More about Local Stagehands and Large-Scale Tours.