Re: 3 million hits with livelooping

[Torben Scharling <torbenscharling@gmail.com>]

Thank you for that post.

We do understand each other after all :)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
>
> Far better said than my message yesterday.
>
> And of course since without enough coffee I can't just leave it at 
> that... ;-)
>
> Probably for as long as I've been on this list — been around musicians? 
> — I've seen people apply a definition of art that allows them to feel 
> superior(?) to others, but then also resentful of their success. 
> Entertaining the audience isn't valued as art though it is what the 
> audience values and it is the audience that we are asking to part with 
> their time, attention, and money.
>
> Saying this is not to denigrate the work of people who don't pursue 
> audience entertainment. But don't bash people who do manage to entertain 
> an audience and reap the rewards of doing so. That isn't easy either.
>
> It is, however, quite reasonable to say "Clearly based on response this 
> is appealing to a lot of people, but from a looping perspective, while 
> it's interesting to see live looping show up in something this popular, 
> the actual looping doesn't seem all that interesting."
>
> Mark