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true ONLY when the process is available to be witnessed... Well said, David. That was the experience that I had when first watching DJ Shadow's latest Live DVD. I was as amazed with what he was doing, and how, as with what he was "playing". But isn't this "Performance"? And aren't musicians "Performers"? At least, that is what one of the music degrees used to be called. Performance Art is everywhere, even in poetry, where you can hardly get up and just read anymore. I played a concert with a community symphony orchestra in a concert hall one time, where we didn't have enough percussionists (is there ever enough :) and someone came to me after the concert who had sat in the balcony, and said: "I just loved watching you during the concert! You had sticks in your mouth, and seemed to have more than two arms when playing!" Unintended Performance Art, sort of like Lord Ganesh sitting in. Cool, actually. Tom ********************************************* -----Original Message----- From: David Kirkdorffer [mailto:vze2ncsr@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 6:58 AM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: In Praise of Taking Risks with Artistry - the result is the point, not the process. In my opinion, when listening to music it's the end result, and not the process that created it, that is most important. I know there are cases when/where the process is the art, but then I would offer this is true ONLY when the process is available to be witnessed as well. David Kirkdorffer UNDO http://music.download.com/undo/3600-8357_3...6.html?tag=list