Re: Audience Perception

[Michael Clark <mcl451@airmail.net>]

I think it's difficult to speak for the consciousness of another person.
And, silly.

M..


At 05:12 PM 11/11/02 -0000, you wrote:
>"My point is that most folks don't have the tools to understand music the
>way almost all of us here do."
>
>...or the knowledge.  the things that make me smile/think/laugh about 
>music
>are the subtle things... sometimes technical things...what i put into my
>music, well, i write things that interest me...like playing a phrase in 
>7/8
>over a part in 5/8 and waiting to see what happens since it will start
>cycling.  i just don't think that the majority of listeners will catch 
>this
>stuff but it's really the meat and potatoes of what i try to do.  of 
>course,
>you can't explain every subtle nuance of a tune to everybody so that 
>they'll
>hear it through your ears and i suppose that's the beauty: that two people
>can like the same thing and have totally opposing reasons for doing so.
>
>however, does knowing more about music make us capable of liking it
>more...as in: "i can like this music better than you can"?  i assert that
>ignorance does limit appreciation...it's not as thorough and not as deep 
>(in
>a quantitative way) and seems to be more of an aesthetic judgment (the
>ignorant can only say "does this please my ears?") rather than an honest
>appreciation and understanding.  this all is not to say that my taste is 
>of
>a greater value, because that's an inflation of the worth of somebody and
>i'm not going there.
>
>-jim
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