A Closer Listen: Stories from Melbourne's Street Musicians
Melbourne is fond of its street musicians. Melbourne
stops to hear them play, offers streets to be their stage. They are students,
architects, dreamers, and even grandparents. I've found there is more to hear from our
everyday performers than their music alone.
life | turning twenty
Silence in an auditorium. A spotlight clanks open, a glowing circle lands on the stage. It's blinding my eyes, but I guess this is it. Becoming twenty. Start of a show. Beginning of a first act.
What now? I think to myself. Do I move my feet at all? Do I sing, belt out a chorus? Do I stay still, and simply speak?
The light is still blinding. Murmurs from the audience. They're wondering about what I'll do. I'm wondering the same thing. The silence gradually returns. My first act begins with a lesson.
Is it a lesson to make the right move? To successfully mesmerise a room full of audience? Or is it that there is no audience at all? That the only person looking – that matters – is me?
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