Re: [microsound] space, the audience & performer

[Gregory Taylor <gtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>the good thing (as you pointed out) is that the audience didn't seem to mind

At the risk of shredding my cred this early, I'll just say that one of the
great and lovely things about the arrival of the element of chance as something
other than a thing that Real Artists banish in this roiling stew of a century
is that there are those wonderful little rewards that come from being willing
to abandon yourself to the situation in which you find yourself. I don't suppose
we're exactly raised or trained as artists to do this with any ease, but I
continue to think that some of my best moments have been those where, for some
odd reason, I become part of the audience, hearing my own work or activity as
though it's done by someone else. It's a shame that about the only word we
might have for the sense of wonder in that reward may well be "narcissism."

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