RE: Audience Perception

["MIKO" <m-i-k-o@attbi.com>]

You're an era late with that remark, Mark.

Some of consciousness is more collective than it used to be.

But having said that- I merely am acting again as a sarcastic devil's
advocate- because really- I agree completely- especially when one considers
the impact of MTV and cable television- and then the Internet- as the
accelerators of global culture so that the final integration of the
experience of the peoples of foreign lands is one that happens SO fast now
that there's less history in the way to hide and/or kill the memory of a
society's uniqueness- thus the diversity of culture is thrust upon every
community of the world with a density never before seen and this has lead 
to
the post-post-modern proactively-demarginalizing, self-defining
mixed-ethnicity, often physically well-traveled but always informationally
well-traveled youth of today who are born, I believe, because I'm an
optimist, even if growing old, each now with a silver spoon of
self-discovery in their mouths.  For some the spoon is dirty or comes with
no food- but the Hundredth Monkey and morphic resonance is the sugar being
put in the spoon for any and every- at some point- to help this 
overwhelming
medicine of the "new experience" to go down.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Clark [mailto:mcl451@airmail.net]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:09 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Audience Perception


I think it's difficult to speak for the consciousness of another person.
And, silly.

M..


At 05:12 PM 11/11/02 -0000, you wrote:
>"My point is that most folks don't have the tools to understand music the
>way almost all of us here do."
>
>...or the knowledge.  the things that make me smile/think/laugh about 
>music
>are the subtle things... sometimes technical things...what i put into my
>music, well, i write things that interest me...like playing a phrase in 
>7/8
>over a part in 5/8 and waiting to see what happens since it will start
>cycling.  i just don't think that the majority of listeners will catch 
>this
>stuff but it's really the meat and potatoes of what i try to do.  of
course,
>you can't explain every subtle nuance of a tune to everybody so that
they'll
>hear it through your ears and i suppose that's the beauty: that two people
>can like the same thing and have totally opposing reasons for doing so.
>
>however, does knowing more about music make us capable of liking it
>more...as in: "i can like this music better than you can"?  i assert that
>ignorance does limit appreciation...it's not as thorough and not as deep
(in
>a quantitative way) and seems to be more of an aesthetic judgment (the
>ignorant can only say "does this please my ears?") rather than an honest
>appreciation and understanding.  this all is not to say that my taste is 
>of
>a greater value, because that's an inflation of the worth of somebody and
>i'm not going there.
>
>-jim
>
>
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