RE: Practice, rehearse, perform

["MIKO" <m-i-k-o@attbi.com>]

Goddess, love your posts.

Try playing with that microtonal bass- I want to hear how you post the
result.

-----Original Message-----
From: Goddess [mailto:thefates@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:57 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Practice, rehearse, perform


  <smile>   What about "up here?"   lol!   no ego here...   lollollol!
  Douglas, nice to see your posts here.   I always love reading them.
Thank you...
  Anyway, you said in reply to Nemoguitt, But I doubt if you would choose
to "practice" when you are ostensibly
performing for an audience: "hmmm. Maybe I should see if I can introduce
exactly one new note every minute for my entire set. Maybe I should rewire
my looper thingie so it comes before my atomic effects atomizer thingie,
then route it back into the looper thingie with just a touch of feedback.
Maybe I should play this new microtonal bass, even though I've never even
held it before." Nomsane?

  I've actually done exactly this on several occasions.  -played
instruments I'd never played before in a live performance setting.
additionally, I've been asked literally, two minutes before a show to play
material I'd not rehearsed, and was not familiar with, with people I'd
never met, upon simply one of them hearing what I've done
improvisationally.  Also, regarding the idea of rewiring one's gear or some
such idea on stage, -don't we do something very similar to this in the face
of limitation or unexpected circumstance such as technical difficulties, or
strings breaking and such, which might not be the easiest to deal with at a
moment's notice.   We adapt.   We are creative in front of an audience, and
practicing new ways of performing as we perform.   So in my examples above,
am I practicing or playing, or both?   The whole idea of improv itself as
it relates to these concepts is also very interesting.    Is it practice or
play?   <smile>   -Is it live or is it Memorex?...   lol!
  Thanks again for such an interesting post.   Have a wonderful  day!, K?

Smiles,

CQ

At 11:43 AM 11/14/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Per wrote:
>
>> You might also try:
>>
>> "Practice / practice even harder / forget it all / get up there and
>> play"  ;-)
>
>Well said! I like "up there" as an all-encompassing phrase. Although it
>immediately brings forth the image of a stage, it could be a state of
being:
>I am no longer down here, I am up there.
>
>Nemoguitt wrote:
>>i yearn to play with other musicians but it never happens.....
>
>What I find fascinating about the transition from practice to rehersal is
>that, in rehersal, I am outside myself. I become my own critical listener.
I
>am playing what I've practiced, but with an objective ear examining 
>whether
>I am getting "up there." I practice for myself, but I rehearse for my 
>other
>self as I would for another musician. I am still not playing "for the
>world," as a performance would be.
>
>>99.9% i play by myself with my boxes, sometimes to an 
>audience.....playing
>(looping) whatever it is that i do is turning more and more into a crap
>shoot, i roll dem bones and step on record and i'm off.....so i dont know
if
>there is a difference between: practice, rehearse, perform.....to me its
all
>kismet/zietgiest.....
>
>But I doubt if you would choose to "practice" when you are ostensibly
>performing for an audience: "hmmm. Maybe I should see if I can introduce
>exactly one new note every minute for my entire set. Maybe I should rewire
>my looper thingie so it comes before my atomic effects atomizer thingie,
>then route it back into the looper thingie with just a touch of feedback.
>Maybe I should play this new microtonal bass, even though I've never even
>held it before." Nomsane?
>
>And David wrote:
>>There are three other modes used to bring music into this world: we also,
>beg, borrow and steal!
>And, do I detect some borrowing here... :-)
>
>Yes, when I was playing with The Wes Houston Band, circa 1979-80, one
>musician was relentlessly practicing his part as the others sat about. It
>was supposed to be a rehersal. Wes announced with excellent authority:
"Hey!
>Practice at home! This is a rehersal! We've got a gig tonight!" I've used
it
>ever since to sort out what was/is attempting to be accomplished.
>
>>You are of course correct in what you say, however.
>
>Thank you!
>
>And Greg House wrote:
>
>>While it's nice if your playing is effortless, but along the lines of the
>other
>thread I was just writing on, it can make for a more interesting
performance
>if
>your looping appears LESS effortless.
>
>And, wiseass that I am, I have an aphorism about appearance. "Music is the
>performance of sound; theater is the performance of appearance." Many
>musicians add theater to their performances. Some even do so 
>intentionally!
> ciao for now
>Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
>coyotelk@optonline.net
>
>
>


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