RE: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V07 #732

["samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>]

  My feeling is ,if I charge for the performance I owe it to the audience 
to 
care enough about what I'm doing to make it worth listening too.I don't 
feel 
that i owe it to them to cater to their expectations,tastes etc. depending 
on th event,If I'm playing for a wedding,or a funeral there are aesthetic 
constraints. I think that performers can do a great service to audiences 
,by 
creating a space,mood, experience ,whatever you want to call it, in which 
they can forget their worries for a minute,and be really present ,in the 
moment This usually requires the perfromers being really present ,in the 
zone.Amazing them with technical displays might do that for some.if an 
actor 
tried to make a big display of technique the way  a lot of guitarists do 
the 
whole illusion of the act would be destroyed,the point is for us to forget 
it's an act,and be engaged . Personally, I couldn't care less if something 
is difficult to play,I want to hear something beautiful. There's a real 
difference between pandering to an audience,and having a dynamic anergetic 
exchange w/ an audience.
" I
am an artist expressing myself the way I want...the audience can take it or
l
eave it."

_________________________________________________________________
Gear up for HaloŽ 3 with free downloads and an exclusive offer. 
http://gethalo3gear.com?ocid=SeptemberWLHalo3_MSNHMTxt_1