Re: circus animals? (Re: WAS: Who uses looping in their promo material? NOW:Prerecordedmaterial)

["Tilmann Dehnhard" <tilmann@dehnhard.com>]

hi per, i get your point.
i also hate standard phrases and distrust them. concerning verbal audience 
reactions i generally have a pretty positive attitude.

when someone comes to me after a concert to tell me that the concert was 
great, i simply say thank you.
even if i disagree and just had a miserable time on stage (happens once in 
a 
while, such is life).
for the person to come behind stage and say ANYTHING is already a nice 
thing.
something in the music must have touched that person deeply to take the 
effort to approach me.
i don't take the content of comments too seriously because lots of people 
have very little experience with live music - and probably music in 
general.

once somebody came to me and said: "that's really nice, what you are doing 
there with your clarinet!"
i said thank you and explained, that the instrument i was holding in my 
hand 
was a flute...

anybody out there with stories like this? (i bet there is...)

smooth looping - tilmann


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:25 PM
Subject: circus animals? (Re: WAS: Who uses looping in their promo 
material? 
NOW:Prerecordedmaterial)


> When someone comes backstage after a gig to say "your show was so 
> impressing" my immediate reaction is distrust. But I try to not to  show 
> this reaction, because it may very well be that this person does  really 
> feel impressed. And I just don't know how to handle that,  because 
> according to my understanding there must be something wrong  with a 
>person 
> that experiences music as "being impressed". I feel  sorry for him and 
>at 
> the same time I feel alienated because I really  can't share his 
>feelings. 
> I think the healthy reaction to hearing  good music being performed 
>would 
> be to simply get happy and enjoy  oneself in that moment. And if 
>anything 
> needs to be said to the  player after a concert one could just thank 
> him/her for providing the  setting for having such a good time. Defining 
> concerts as "difficult  performances" just gives me the 
> creeps....u-u-uh..... ;-)
>
> p ,-)
>
>
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