Edinburgh Napier University

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 wo...

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 la...

In One Ear, Out the Other (Jacob Danson Faraday on Cirque du Soleil)

Digital Artefact

Danson Faraday, J., & Hagood, M. (2022)

In One Ear, Out the Other (Jacob Danson Faraday on Cirque du Soleil). [Podcast]

Working Interviews: Blending Fieldwork and Technical Work on Tour with Cirque du Soleil

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...