Comments on: Dancing out of the office, and more on Gait https://nicomuhly.com/news/2012/dancing-out-of-the-office-and-more-on-gait/ The official website of the New York-based composer Nico Muhly. Wed, 23 May 2012 13:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Morning Bites: Televised Charlie Kaufman, Alexander Chee on Portland (Maine), Maile Meloy on Salinger, and More | Vol. 1 Brooklyn https://nicomuhly.com/news/2012/dancing-out-of-the-office-and-more-on-gait/comment-page-1/#comment-37599 Wed, 23 May 2012 13:01:12 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=3440#comment-37599 […] Nico Muhly on writing for ballet. […]

]]> By: Wombat gait « Snarkmarket https://nicomuhly.com/news/2012/dancing-out-of-the-office-and-more-on-gait/comment-page-1/#comment-37571 Mon, 21 May 2012 00:31:24 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=3440#comment-37571 […] Muhly is the best blogger. He consistently delivers weird cool insights into creative processes and creative organizations, […]

]]> By: Grandfather https://nicomuhly.com/news/2012/dancing-out-of-the-office-and-more-on-gait/comment-page-1/#comment-37563 Sun, 20 May 2012 00:59:55 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=3440#comment-37563 In my humble experience, the folks who don’t take long weekends and make themselves available of a Saturdaya/Sunday are the folks who have the pleasure of seeing their dreams enacted. Pace grumpy Dev.

]]> By: Claire https://nicomuhly.com/news/2012/dancing-out-of-the-office-and-more-on-gait/comment-page-1/#comment-37542 Thu, 17 May 2012 17:33:55 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=3440#comment-37542 Dude, I don’t really think he expects everyone to be ON all the time. Notice the term ‘rant’ used. Just venting frustration because Britain has an annoying habit of taking extra long bank holidays. Any excuse…

Anyway, I’m loving the wombat gait. I can almost hear the rhythm watching it. Looking forward to seeing/hearing more.
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]]> By: Dev https://nicomuhly.com/news/2012/dancing-out-of-the-office-and-more-on-gait/comment-page-1/#comment-37505 Tue, 15 May 2012 21:03:35 +0000 http://nicomuhly.com/?p=3440#comment-37505 Aside from your point about amending erroneous work, why on earth should someone be expected to respond to enquiries outside of their scheduled work pattern? Composition is your life’s work, obviously a passion which doesn’t wane simply because it’s saturday afternoon and you’re drunk as hell or whatever, but it’s not theirs. You would need to assume that although your particular enquiries might be valid, if they’ve already spent somewhere around 50hrs or so that week having dung flung at their persõn from various angles by varying types of demanding fool, that they might deserve the opportunity to read their child a bedtime story or make love without being interrupted by a phonecall regarding a minor technical detail within a score or setting. That shit can wait, no?

My experience is that the irritation of bureaucracy increases with team size and devolved responsibility. Keep teams as small as possible I guess. But be sensitive to privacy. If members of the arts programming and management weren’t such wooly plonkers you probably wouldn’t be so vexed by OoOs though, i’ll give you that.

[My thought is always that in the arts we all have to be on all the time. Or REALLY off. I just don’t buy the “sporadic email checking” argument; to me it just reads as lazy. Be on or off! But/and thank you for your comment. Organizational structures are the source of constant vex8ion and delight for me! N]

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