awjoe wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:18 pm
I want an effective performance, which means inhabiting the music so completely and powerfully that the listener is pulled in and carried along.
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Play the kind of music, and play it in a way, that moves you and moves people who hear it. I doubt very much that intellectual analysis of the factors involved helps achieve that. But... different strokes...
Only because my way of presenting my ideas may or may not come off to you as intellectual, does not mean there is no emotionally felt concern behind it.
What has motiviated me to reflect on this topic was the current developement of smartphone cameras. There are very invasive steps smartphones take to output the 'photos' they do. Some of them can not be turned off or the user isnt even informed about this. Things like moving the eyes to look directly into the lense, taking parts of one instance and combining it with elements of other instances (to make everyone smile in the picture at the same time) etc.
There is so much going on that I could list many more things, but I think the idea comes across. The consequence is that smartphone cameras(+AI) are so far removed from what a camera is that photos dont serve as documentation, for example as proof of something. Im a bit troubled what being confronted with so many pictures that are so far removed from what a human evolutionary encountered has negative consequences in the long run.
To be consistent in my concern, taking a critical look at mixing practices is cannot be left out. An one take performance can potentially be more effective than any collage of performances. The direct/honest/real (call it however you want) nature of one performance can not be replicated by a collage.
Another topic that makes me view it so dramatically is the work of Weston Price and Pottenger:
Pottengers cats (to keep it short watch from 10:50):
https://youtu.be/OvQ5F6GCfgI
Weston Price (to keep it short watch 3:20-3:50)
https://youtu.be/_ti3xNltlsM
As is documented here, in the case of diet technical advances (post industrial) have degenerating effects on humans(/cats).
Maybe the developement of post industrial culutral artefacts are no trivial matter? I would like to hear your thoughts.