Anton Nott took the time in isolation to create an electric guitar amp • Yamit Hagar offered her services to provide business advice to musicians for free • Some notes on creativity during a crisis

In the movie "Get Up Yesterday Morning," actor Bill Murray portrays a man who has been put into a Kafkai situation in which he was sentenced to live the same day over and over. In his despair, he learns the movements of people on the street, foreign languages, playing the piano, and tries at all costs to find a way to keep himself busy until the never-ending day is finally over.

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This week, during the closing days, among the plethora of my daughters' educational activities, cooking, cleaning, and ordering that these empty days are full of, I pondered on this 1993 American comedy, and wondered how creative people who engage in this year's work fill their days at a time when their entire world is dropping Under their feet.

In the midst of all the talk of the large collapse of the self-employed, it seems strange to engage in a population that is apparently not essential or necessary; Artists and creators not counted in any category or category of cultural support. Germany has already created a 50 billion euros worth of astronomical cultural activity with the understanding that, even if it is World War III, someone will have to clean the streets, and someone will have to clean the souls. However, in Israel, which even in the days of a healthy routine, the civilians are fighting for one percent of the state budget, there is still no such horizon. So I went to find some hope for the music creators, dreamers and the people around them.

Anton Nott is an effects boutique manufacturer and musician. He celebrated his birthday this week alone in isolation. "It's a little sad, but what to do? I celebrated with friends in the zoom." Instead of succumbing to despair and drowning on Netflix, he decided to do something different. "I had a speaker that someone threw at me once, a wooden box where it was packed with a microphone, a few buttons and all kinds of electrical components. I took handles from my closet that fit a stamp, and here after building so many effects, I first built an electric guitar amplifier! He shows me a photo.

is very! And from what I saw on Instagram, it sounded really good.

"A few years ago, I started getting interested in reading about it online, and I didn't have the time and head for it, and now is a good time to empty the project drawer that I wanted to do and I didn't go out.

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"When you're used to buying stuff and getting components from China every two weeks, and it stops all at once, you start to think about how to do things in a new way. It's creative. All this amplifier is like that, something I've created leftovers. The limitations lead me to interesting and unconventional results. It's like building an effect. Inside a candy box, because those are the two things that were in my mind. "

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"I'm trying to continue to sell over the net, but I know I'm not set up for a vital business. People aren't buying stuff now, just looking for toilet paper. So I'm building, because it's fun and it's good for my soul. At the moment I'm not missing parts or ideas to build things. And one day, you know, when it's all over we will go out into the street with a whole table of pedals and effects and put a booth next to a lemonade kid. "

For two years she worked on "Brushes", her debut album. All the creative energy was concentrated and focused on the moment when she would expose her wares to the general public. But shortly after the first single, "Into the Storm," Daisy underwent a car accident that disrupted all plans. Since it had been a year and a half of recovery and internalization, a tour of India, and everything was already ready and scheduled for the launch and release of the second single, "Far From You," in mid-March. Everything except Corona.

"An hour before the song was due to be broadcast to the radio stations, I froze everything. What I knew was that the song must see especially light during this time. When all things are out of control, the sky is closing, and more and more people are staying in their homes. It was important for me to share positive content that brings a smile, reminiscent of beautiful moments.

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"These days are very focused on the here and now, not what I want it to be, but what exists and how it brings out the good. That's why I put the song on social networks. There are all kinds of dreams about a song before being released: how it will resonate, but at times like this, I wanted to create Something moment that will give another effect, that will be happy, soothing, that for a moment will take us out of the reality of fear so I released the song with love to the world. "

"I asked musicians if they wanted to work from home, and I was contacted by someone who is a hi-techist, musician and music lover himself, and connected him to the Petah Tikva Heart Association, which takes food parcels for the elderly and single people, and because of the closure they do not currently have workers, so musicians donate tens of thousands of shekels, pack musicians And distribute food to the elderly, and here's a creative and good solution for tough days. "

In their days, Yamit Hagar is a business consulting guru for musicians and production companies. This week she released a free consultation for musicians. As I managed to catch her among all waiting, I asked why. "Because nobody has now and it's wrong to take them," she says. "It's a time of no rules and rules, money is not what should be at the center of the equation right now, it's time for caring and reciprocity.

"I advise anyone who appeals to me not to spend money on anything except rent and bills, food and beer of course. Because you have to live and breathe and rejoice, and how can you hear blues without beer?

"Now is just the beginning of the crisis, think about when there will be another big gathering. And not just Hayarkon Park, who will stand with another 1,200 people at Barbie? When will people again have the feeling that they have money to spend overseas? Another second, the guillotine of credit goes down on their bank accounts, and there is very much no way to pay rent, so I advise them to rummage, hear new music, get inspired, write, compose, create, anything that doesn't make a dime out of pocket. "

Hagar adds that "there is no way to get into music at the moment. So take all the sketches out of the drawers and arrange the songs according to the alphabet, which will start to make a barter with each other: You will make him a mix and he will play your cello. For example, a club "The Smoke of Time" in Beer Sheva, sells future vouchers for beers for the day after Corona.

"Creators need to be reminded that they are important even without money at the moment. Because we as an audience, as a society, need what they do, something that swims us, and they have to work now that we have something essential to hear the day after, because without music, what is life worth?"

Sentences that people write

A : Say, do you hear the helicopters every evening? Anyone have an explanation for that?

B : Emergency? training? Maybe more usually

Noisy at night.

J : Every evening there is a helicopter that goes over levels.

D : Now a helicopter has moved so low here! I almost landed on the balcony.

J : The army also conducted logistics for Corona.

A : Cool.

B : Check that he will go to the writer and bring eggs.