{"id":213,"date":"2008-10-27T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T23:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2008\/10\/27\/outside_my_comfort_zone\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T23:04:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T23:04:23","slug":"outside_my_comfort_zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2008\/10\/27\/outside_my_comfort_zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside my comfort zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been to very many rock concerts. It therefore came as rather a surprise to find myself at the Oasis concert in The Roundhouse last night, the final gig in the BBC Electric Proms<\/a> . It was even more of a surprise that I was on stage, performing alongside Noel and Liam and the rest of the band. Well, I say “alongside” but actually I and the rest of the Crouch End Festival Chorus (CEFC<\/a> ) were placed somewhat to the back of the stage. If you have good eyesight you can just spot me a few times on the BBC video<\/a> . I’m the one in the middle row with the orange shirt and the shiny head. [Note – video only available for 7 days. It’s about an hour long. The last 5 minutes is the best].
\nI have to say that the Roundhouse looked magnificent. I kept wondering if I had somehow strayed into the Large Hadron Collider.
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\nThe music was rather different from Bach, Stravinsky, Elgar or Adams, CEFC’s usual territory. It was certainly outside my immediate comfort zone. The volume level was the most obvious difference. At times it was almost at the level that causes pain, but also created a physical exhilaration. The method of sound projection we used was also rather different from our usual technique. Instead of drawing ourselves up, summoning all the strength in our diaphragm muscles and resonating in all cavities with as much force as we could, we each had a personal microphone headset and had to trust in the sound mixing desk to ensure we could be heard at all. We could barely hear ourselves let alone our neighbour. Interestingly, the band said they said they were playing more quietly than they ever have before!
\nIt was an exhilarating and memorable experience. Outside my comfort zone, but probably also outside the band’s comfort zone if truth be told. We and they learned something new about music, and shared our skills and experience to create something that neither could have managed alone.
\nI am a great believer in treading outside my comfort zone. This blog is living evidence of that – it can be scary to release a post into the NN community. I think that data curation<\/a> is also outside my comfort zone, but it has a strange fascination perhaps because of that. Can I , and fellow librarians, find a means of projecting a librarian’s voice and perspective into the high volume rock and roll of data creators and data scientists? It depends whether they are ready to listen to our quieter voices, or find a means to feed us into the mix. And it depends on librarians’ readiness to walk onto that scary stage and start performing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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