Pierre Dugelay calls on the public to question his concert practice and deplores starification phenomena : « it’s the artist’s job to make small gauges and we can want that, a musician’s job which is not to become a star ».
The search for profitability endangers cultural diversity »
Stars, the Kraspek Myzic receives few. The Croix-Rousse room and its 80 seats specializes in musical discovery. A large part of its activities consists of supporting artists, thanks to public funding because ticketing alone is not enough. « We estimate that a good evening for discovery is 40 people ” explain Inès Bourgeoissite coordinator. She defends a vision of the concert hall “ Or filling is not the goal » and laments a thought “ which tends towards privatization. That means planning based on a full ticket office, which will consume a lot at the bar and which will mean that we will be profitable. And profitability has an impact on the artistic potential of artistsit endangers cultural diversity ».
A financial difficulty which also weakens jobs in these mainly associative structures while the circulation figures are “ rather very good » according to Florian Auvinetdirector of the regional current music network Grand Bureau, which brings together 170 venues. A paradox linked to “ a budgetary scissor effect » with rising expenses and revenues which “ stagnate, or even have a clear tendency to fall ».
« We will see territories become deserts »
In its experimentation, Le Périscope was accompanied by Pierre Brinifacilitator of the regional branch of LABA, which develops social innovation in the cultural and creative sectors. To economic and ecological risks, it adds a democratic issuefearing that “ peri-urban and rural areas [soient] condemned to come to the city center to attend concerts, even though there are facilities in these areas. We will see territories become deserts because it will no longer be economically interesting to play there. We are going to have a two-speed Europe of musicwith a Europe of international tours and then nothing. And theThe right to artistic quality is a fundamental right ».
In Lyon, criticism is focused around the LDLC Arena, which has just celebrated its second anniversary.
