Re: WAS: Who uses looping in their promo material? NOW:Prerecordedmaterial

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

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> I believe that a performer earns their applause by
successfully doing something difficult in front of an audience.

>> rubbing my xtra large tummy and patting my head at the same time is 
>> "difficult" playing music is a joy.....travis, why do you say 
>> "difficult", interesting use of the word.....perhaps i have never 
>really 
>> suffered for my art and over the years have easily perfected my 
>> mistakes.....i've said it in the past, i'm pretty shallow when it comes 
>> to lofty thoughts....."what does your music mean, where does it come 
>> from?".....DUH!.....turn it up!.....:).....michael

I'm with yah, man. Are we circus animals or artists? The idea of "earning" 
an applause doesn't ring well with me anyway. Only speaking personally and 
not for anyone else...I don't feel I owe anything to an audience. I know, 
it 
sounds egocentric.  I play for myself and what I want. If people like it, 
great (and inevitably someone does, otherwise I wouldn't be asked back 
repeatedly). And if people like it and express themselves, I extend my 
sincere thanks and appreciate to them openly...but I don't cater to any 
audience need or feel to need to earn anything. And I certainly don't 
guage 
the artistic merit of my work based on a herd-like metric like applause. I 
am an artist expressing myself the way I want...the audience can take it 
or 
leave it. This is probably relevant to the avant-garde arts, so I would 
not 
say this is valid necessarily for pop music, where musicians become 
commodities in free enterprise and mere pawns for the record labels and 
producers to generate revenue. Those capitalistic slaves can earn their 
applause....but not my cup of tea. :)

Though there is an underlying logic to Travis' comments that is worth 
exploring, namely doing something difficult may be a sufficient condition 
to 
warrant audience applause, but not a necessary condition, meaning that 
there 
are other factors besides doing something difficult that may lead to 
audience applause (like saying stupid things, making an ass out of oneself 
in front of 10,000 people, strutting around the stage like rockstar 
demigod, 
urinating on stage, etc). In short, the statement "If I do something 
difficult, this deserves an applause" could be a true statement in one 
context, but the statement,  "If I get an applause, I must have done 
something difficult" is certainly a statement that cannot be univerally 
true. That seems intuitive to me. It takes one counter-example fact to 
nullify that statement.....easily done.

Kris