Re: videos and music and music sales

[paul <phaslem@wightman.ca>]

I've never worked with video, but I sometimes do story telling as a 
way of setting the stage for people.

I've spent many years thinking about this in all sorts of different 
settings and my conclusion is this. People have never been taught to 
listen to instrumental music. If it doesn't have words or images or 
some other key to tell them exactly what to envision; they are lost 
because few people have any imagination of their own. I was with an 
artist friend not to long ago at a gallery opening and was astonished 
to hear some woman ask the artist, "what am I supposed to see here, 
what do you want me to feel?"

I tend to think that as more and more schools have dropped the arts 
from their curriculums we see more and more people that just don't 
understand, or worse are totally bewildered by the arts.

Paul Haslem
www.dulcify.ca
Ontario, Canada




At 11:52 PM 12/29/2009, you wrote:
>I have some strong thoughts on this because whenever I play there is 
>always the pressure to carry the work with visuals. But often, I 
>fear this results in fluff and is sometimes distracting from the 
>sound experience. For me, adding visuals takes away from the 
>imaginative experience that can come from sound. Visuals dictate 
>what a listener takes in and they might have another interpretation 
>if they are allowed to let their minds wander.
>