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April 15, 2009
Two new articles from my blog on a few of the various perspectives through which performing artists can relate to their audiences. Early attempts in what I expect to be an ongoing exploration of our culture's shifting boundary between producer and consumer...
> The 3-2-1 of Musical Performance
For whatever reasons, our culture has decided that we are not all musicians. Instead, a few trained (or not-so trained) specialists are expected to get up on stage so we can live vicariously through them. There are musicians, and there are spectators. But I don't think the distinction is so clear cut; we're all participants in something larger called a "concert" that requires both artist and audience in the same way that fertilization requires both male and female.
> YOU'RE The Musician; YOU Make Some Noise!
I don't want us all relinquishing our creative agency to whomever The Machine decides is going to be The Next Big Thing. In an age when we can all produce our own books/video/music/fine art/theater, I think it's time for us to reclaim our inspiration from centralized corporate governance. At the same time, even as an artist I prefer to let the guy on stage take the reigns for a little while.
Thoughts?
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3-2-1-Contact!
— Apr 16, 2009
I especially enjoyed the part about reading the audience as you would a single person's face, and the reciprocity needed to make the show one that everyone enjoys.
"The only thing constant in life is change" -François de la Rochefoucauld
Universal Resonance
— May 15, 2009
Such a bountiful topic - One eternal symphony: The "Universe" as we have been accustomed to believe is a composition of a near infinite amount of energy. We generally distinguish this energy through labeling distinct entities, each separate from one another, interacting and complimenting, collectively functioning as "One." I believe each and every "one" energy of the universe may be reduced at the experiential level, to subatomic particles, wavelets, and vibrating frequencies of an infinitely subtle nature. It is here we may find in fact, the entire universe is just that, "One Verse" of vibration, frequency, music; in the cosmic poem we call reality.
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