virtual silence

["Nic Roozeboom" <nicroozeboom@hotmail.com>]

Perhaps the most difficult audience response to endeavor might be silence; 
and I'm sure that for some pieces of music, it might be the single most 
desirable environment for its success.

It struck me recently (and in retrospect) that perhaps I am occasionally 
employing looping to achieve a type of virtual or surrogate silence - 
while 
not having the means or authority (personally or musically) to simply 
command the real thing (i.e. not being a Peter Gabriel of sorts who can 
just 
ask his 10k+ audience for "silence please while I construct this here 
soundscape", as I once witnessed).

I realized this as I audited some recent live recordings of my band of a 
song in which the looping is not really that prominent or even important, 
but seems to just be able to draw sufficient attention to cause some 
degree 
of directed attention and associated relative silence.

Does anyone purposely and consciously utilize ambient looping solely for 
the 
purpose of, and subservient to, the "framing" of the object piece?


Nic

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