Creativity Quote by Eric San

It sounds like a throwaway ambition, but it’s really a mission statement for a certain kind of 21st-century artistry: unruly, hybrid, and proudly unconcerned with old prestige hierarchies. Eric San (better known in electronic circles as Kid Koala) isn’t just pitching a quirky project. He’s describing a world where the supposed boundaries between “high” performance (the orchestra pit, the musical theater form) and “low” tools (turntables, crate-digging culture, DIY sampling) stop behaving like boundaries at all.

The specificity does the work. “Eventually” implies a long game, an artist’s patience: this isn’t a novelty act you slap together for a festival slot; it’s something you build toward. “Puppet musical” signals storytelling with visible strings, literal artifice. That’s the subtext: the audience is invited to watch how emotion gets manufactured in real time. Pair that with “turntables in the orchestra pit” and you get a playful act of institutional hacking. The pit is where tradition hides its labor; putting turntables there makes the labor loud, contemporary, and frankly a little mischievous.

Culturally, it’s also a quiet argument about musicianship. Turntablism has spent decades fighting to be recognized as craft rather than gimmick. Slotting it into the pit doesn’t beg for permission; it assumes legitimacy, then dares the venue to catch up. The intent isn’t to “blend genres” in the polite crossover sense. It’s to rewire what we think a musical can be, and who gets to conduct the magic.