Re: [microsound] space, the audience & performer

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Gregory Taylor wrote:

> 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. 

No shred cred... this is a good point. I love to allow or leave room for
the happy accident. For me I only really BLOOMED creatively (and I'd
been doing art stuff all my life) when I was able to surrender control
and aboandoned myself to the situation. In a related vein, some of what
I love about the Dadaists is their use of "random" methods for
constructing pieces (cut-up writing, etc.), and I have tried similar
approaches in making music. Sometimes such methods leave even more room
for things to happen...


> 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."

The more one allows randomness or accidents into the process the more
the result can heard/seen as having been done by someone else. I have
encountered old recordings of mine I almost do not recognize because of
this... it's quite amusing and entertaining! 

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