Stress and personal health
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Sister Bliss
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20 lessons (1h 18m) · 1 free
01. Make electronic make sense live
12:56
02. Expanding the studio tracks
7:24
03. Creating space
6:12
04. Synthesised vs. live
4:17
05. Sound designing the show
7:28
06. Rehearsals and preparation
8:56
07. Working with session musicians
7:50
08. Working with musical directors
Free lesson
09. Incorporating stage filming
3:24
10. Visual design
7:59
11. Adapting your setlist
5:18
12. Importance of the crew
13. Front of house engineer
3:30
14. Live broadcasts
3:03
15. Recording quality
16. International touring
17. Time keeping and logistics
18. When things go wrong
19. Auditioning
20. Stress and personal health
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Lesson transcript
Touring Challenges and Self-Care in Music
"This is my church. If you have a hit record, everybody in the world wants you, but you can't be in all these different places at the same time."
The Reality of Touring
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Discombobulation: Sometimes touring can be really discombobulating.
- One day you might be doing a festival in Scotland
- Then flying to Japan
- Following that, flying back two days later to play a headline show festival in the UK
- And then going halfway around the world to America.
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Time Zone Hopping: Within a single five-day period, you can be in four different time zones.
The Impact on Health
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Stress on the Body: You can't underestimate the kind of stress that takes a toll on your body and your emotions.
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Importance of Self-Care:
- If you're in a band, try not to do back-to-back shows.
- A day off does actually cost money. You still have to pay people for the day they are on tour with you.
- It's not like they can do anything else, so try to build in a day off after a run of shows.
The Exhaustion of Touring
- Physical and Mental Fatigue:
- People can become extremely exhausted from the travel, the shows themselves, and the adrenaline.
- After a show, you're usually so buzzed up, you don't want that feeling to stop.
- It takes a long time to relax the body and reset the nervous system.
The Importance of Physical Wellness
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Training on Tour: We took a trainer with us on tour for quite a few years because band members were getting injuries due to the intensity of the shows.
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Physical Demands:
- Many parts of the music were very driving, especially in the drums, which can be relentless.
- People started experiencing muscular aches and pains in their shoulders and other areas as the show became longer and more demanding.
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Staying Fit:
- We had to be at a level of physical fitness to cope with the shows and the rock and roll lifestyle.
- It's quite hard to maintain this beyond a certain age as your body starts to rebel.
- You need to have muscle tone, resilience, and fitness to convincingly perform at the level we were doing.
"It's quite hard to do that beyond a certain age."
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Meet your guru
'Sister Bliss never stopped writing music. She's an accomplished composer for film and TV, a club DJ, and an advocate for the creative industries'. Billboard
One of the most successful British dance music artists of the past 25 years, Ayalah Bentovim AKA Sister Bliss is the musical force behind Faithless.
Together with iconic front man Maxi Jazz and producer Rollo Armstrong, she formed Faithless: one of the most successful electronic acts of their generation, with a career spanning more than two decades that included 8 albums (3 at number 1) and six top 10 singles. To date, Faithless have sold in excess of 15 million records worldwide and have played live to millions across the world, headlining festivals, stadiums and arenas. The band have collaborated with artists such as Jazzie B, Boy George, Cat Power and Dido, never conforming and moving effortlessly across an eclectic range of genres.
Over a 25-year career that took her from the underground UK club scene to sold-out arena shows and festival headline slots around the globe, Sister Bliss has become one of British dance music's longest-standing and most influential female electronic artists.
She comes off the back of releasing Faithless' first studio album in ten years, the highly anticipated 'All Blessed' - Faithless' love letter to electronic music that presents them at their very best. The album reached number 6 in the charts and the singles, along with their premiere remixes, garnered extensive support across BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and BBC 6 as well as Kiss FM and Capital.
A classically trained multi-instrumentalist, she has also scored numerous TV, film and theatre productions. Credits include 2012's film Knife Fight starring Rob Lowe and directed by two-time Oscar winner Bill Guttentag, commissions for Sex & The City 2, Chasing Amy, Danny Boyle's The Beach, A Life Less Ordinary, acclaimed British film The Hide, Crossing The Line and the BAFTA-winning TV dramas Life Begins (ITV) and The Poison Tree (ITV).
For theatre, Bliss has written music for The Black Album and The Emperor Jones at The National Theatre in London, as well as composing an original piece for the London Sinfonietta, which was performed at Fuse Festival, UK.
She recently had a lead role in major prime time BBC1 show 'This is My Song', mentoring the contributors and producing their final recordings.
She released a new collaborative album with Rollo and Dido in 2019 under the moniker 'R PLUS' - 'The Last Summer', following a jam-packed summer of festival headline DJ sets throughout the world including sets at Bestival, Exit Festival, Glastonbury, Creamfields, Ibiza and beyond.
Her hugely successful weekly radio show and podcast 'Sister Bliss in Session' is syndicated to over 100 stations and 43 countries worldwide. She recently guest presented Gilles Peterson's acclaimed show on BBC 6 Music and regularly stands in for Ana Matronic on the Dance Devotion show on BBC Radio 2.
She has also presented a 5-part series on Bauer Media's Scala Radio station joining the dots between classical and electronic music, which won the Bronze prize at the New York Festival Radio Awards, competing against 30 countries.
She currently teaches at Tileyard Studios' Masters MA course, including modules on songwriting, production and writing to commercial brief, and mentors individual Masters students - the same hands-on knowledge she shares in Studio to Stage, breaking down exactly how Faithless turned their records into a stadium-filling live show.
