For more than twenty years, my career as a professional musician on the French and international stages has allowed me to observe a social environment that fuels fantasies, and to question myself on what, beyond individual talent - this notion elusive — fabricates an artistic career: the meritocratic illusion, the marketing and simplification of the real, the questionable relationship between productivity and well-being.

The upheavals linked to the coronavirus crisis have given even more urgency to these questions: how to continue to respond to injunctions to innovation in a world that is nevertheless becoming uniform? Why produce ever more, when artistic circles are already saturated with proposals, works, messages? How to reconcile time-consuming communication and organizational tasks with time for reflection and artistic experimentation that getting ever smaller? These tensions run through the daily lives of most artists today. If they don't always say it, it becomes more and more difficult for them to put up with it.

I hope, with this book, to make heard a reality and questions that still find little echo in the public space. However, many of us are asking ourselves individually about the necessary changes in a world of culture that is out of balance.


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