Reflection After a Performance

So here we are post-performance. It was quite a performance. Thank you all for doing such a great job it was one of the most interesting performances I have been to/participated in.

It was kind of odd however, sitting and watching while others were going. The uninterruptedness was something that doesn't come around here all too often. There were no breaks between "songs", there wasn't a backroom for us to go and hide and build up any more nervousness that sometimes comes along with performance of music. We were all, in a way, performing the entire 30 minutes, which brings all of the pieces we performed together, together even more so than if we would scuttle back offstage. We were all engaged the entire time.

Musically, our form that we created was very satisfying. There was a pretty even distribution of sound and "energy" throughout. You could say it was phrased very nicely, not being too dense with sound as to create just "noise". There was ebb and flow, and it was good.

When I had said before, well, after we performed that the text wasn't quite music to me-I just wanted to let you all know that it was only an opinion of mine and not anything that I have heard from any source other than others that share my view. It is one of the concepts that I cannot seem to work through since I get so caught up in the meaning of the content of speech. And really, the more interesting the content, the harder it is for me to justify it as music. Music acting as a conduit of meaning, and text being the literal meaning in the flesh, having its own conduits i.e. through metaphor, analogy, etc. I suppose that this idea could also be shared by literary artists as well, them perhaps not wanting lines to be blurred by saying that their own poetry is "music". I could be absolutely wrong though. I guess I just am still unsure of this myself. A good question can't be answered without being asked.

Counterpoint: it definitely is sound, and thus can be defined by sound's parameters.

Continuing on:

I am still, to this moment, 3:19pm 12/11/07, that the form that we created was brilliant. It was so abstract when we thought it out and figured in amounts of time, and divided time up in multiple certain ways, but sounded so fluid when it was performed. I know that part of it could partly be coincidence, but the process that we followed through with to determine time was plainly uncanny. So... good job us!

The clothing really tied things together, just like the rug in "The Big Lebowski". "It really tied the room together."

We could have asked for a slightly larger audience, but too big could have been problematic as well. I mean, we're not singin' folk tunes that any regular "billy" would hear on a day-to-day basis. And no, not 'hillbilly'. Although it could also ring true. It is really music that is for people open to accept it. It would be socially unacceptable to bring our crew as an opener for Slayer, so I think the social context that we performed it in was very acceptable.

As a sort of random ending note:

Isn't it weird that some "New Media" is almost 50+ years old?

Feel free to post your comments on that if you still check this at a later date, now that we all have a blogger account if we didn't have one before.