FRÉDÉRIC PICHARD 88 rue Cambronne, 75015 Creative technician, master of complex fermentation, wood-burning oven, spellbinding baguette de tradition that evokes cooked pumpkin and dried Corinthian raisins.
Named after the late theatre director and founder of the Wapping Project, it honours the achievement of a female creative technician, this year in the field of film editing.
Since that time, he has operated Survival Research Lab (SRL) as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry and science away from their typical manifestation in practicality or product.
In a solo performance made with many people, most of them creative technicians, he pulls the thread of a story from out of the noise of contemporary western life and the sounds of the jungle to create a meditation on interconnectedness, perception and time.
Now take a world of hackers, tinkerers and creative technicians and give them a three-channel interface plus low voltage.
So, all props to the backroom people, and give credit where credit is due, right?! For over 20 years, Banta has been one of those backroom creative technicians who has mastered and mixed platinum and gold hits and worked with legendary artists like Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, members of N.W.A., Tupac and Coolio, Michael Jackson and Sting, and also for U.K.'s Take That.
There is considerable support out there for young singers, however there is very little support for those interested in performing new opera, particularly the stage creatives, technicians and composers.
He interviews the people who are influenced by Jackson now and those who were around him then – creatives, technicians, legal eagles – the massed Houston team that launched this heroic pop astronaut into space.
2001: A Space Odyssey: the best sci-fi and fantasy film of all time "Only the combination of so many creatives and technicians at the top of their game could ever have made this masterpiece out of such lean subject matter.
Creative team: sound technician, David Norman, Xavier de Porrata; lighting technicians, David Valera and Joel Valera; music and choreography, Camut Band; sound by Ferran Bauló; lighting by Evarist Valera; instrument design, Chus Meana, Pociello, Toni Español and Zaris; costumes by Uli Maciel.
But just north of that, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the heart of San Francisco, a fresh exhibit named Dissident Futures sees itself as one community of creatives' response to the technician's tomorrow.
