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When creative friendships struggle with the transition to public work

My best friend and I have been making experimental music together for years as a private thing, but now that we're talking about sharing it publicly, we can't agree on how to present ourselves or even whether we want the same kind of attention. The prospect of an audience is changing everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The intimacy of private creative practice dissolves when faced with the imagined gaze of others, forcing friends to negotiate visibility they never had to define.

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