Klarinet Archive - Posting 001142.txt from 2000/10

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] A conductor/performer
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:54:14 -0400

<><> Ed Lacy wrote:
However, these two players can contort their faces into expressions of
extreme pain when playing the most simple, straight-forward and
matter-of-fact lines. It is almost as if they are trying to outdo each
other in the range and grotesqueness of their expressions.

It occurs to me that if music truly does 'short circuit' part of
the total nervous system -- similar to the way that parts of our brains
'short circuit' while we dream and hence our dreams don't obey the same
logic as our waking thoughts do (this has been demonstrated many times
with PET scans, EEGs, etc) -- then perhaps a similar thing happens while
playing?
I would assume that every performer who has been televised has seen
himself or herself afterwards. Therefore musicians such as Itzahk and
Yo-Yo can't be unaware of it. But perhaps it comes with the territory,
similar to how I wince and contort my face and squirm in the dentist's
chair, and I know that I do, but I don't feel foolish afterwards for
having done so.
Many of us have video cameras. How many of us have taped
ourselves while playing something that is 'serious' to us, and then
looked at the tape afterwards? We might be surprised..... I've already
decided that I'm *not* going to do this experiment on myself.....
<grin>

Cheers,
Bill

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