To Change or Not to Change

Stacey
Jul 23, 2018
2 min read

It's been a while.

Our last time together - in person - was 9 months ago.

Luckily, we live in 2018. We've been "mobile" for a while - spending most of the year apart and meeting face-to-face a few times during the year for a week or so of super intense rehearsals and back-to-back performances. This past October, we made one of the most lucrative gains we've ever had since our conception. We busked in a Boston subway station for the first time. We performed publicly by memory for the first time. We improvised live for the first time. There was many a proud moment.

Since then, though, each of our personal and professional lives has taken off in a whirlwind. We've journeyed through illnesses, job opportunities, failed auditions, school work, world traveling, and more. Sometimes change is hard. Sometimes change is inevitable. Either way, change is good.

Let me back that up. Without change, we would be stuck in ignorance, never moving forward, never improving. Change provides the opportunity to look inward, and effect outward. I'm preaching to myself just as much here. I'm a cautious, reserved person, taking situations in calculatingly to ensure the best decision and outcome is achieved.

When I first created our newest project, Metropolis of Sound (www.inradianceflutes.com/metropolis-of-sound), for which we're presenting in the final round of the National Flute Convention's grant competition in 2-and-a-half weeks, my original inspiration was taken from the fact that though the 5 of us live all over the country, the love of music and our mission to create music together draws us together. As I dived further into research and the project, I grew more and more passionate about the current state of classical music's accessibility and how music should be one of the most inclusive things there are, and how communal and exciting it can be. So, even for a person who is suspicious of change, I desire this change in the status quo. I'm excited to perform and present at the National Flute Convention in a couple weeks. And I hope you all partner with us to support our embrace of this change that is for the better. Please check out the project page on our website (link above) and if you feel led to, fill out a pledge form (https://goo.gl/forms/nGv2I523xDw0zEe43) by the end of this week to support this project financially (no actual monetary donations collected yet, in case we don't get the grant).

In the spirit of celebrating change, we've started a new video mini-series titled, "20 Seconds With In Radiance," so that you, our fans and supporters, can get a glimpse into our world. Enjoy some unconventional music in Episode #1! :) Peace and love.