http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2562 Comments for "The Best Seat" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2562 <p><a href="http://steveonbroadway.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html"><img src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_hi4TbVj_QiY/RvqWE3bMTSI/AAAAAAAABKk/6m9S4160EVg/s320/theatreseat.jpg" class="right"/></a><br /> <blockquote><cite class="blog-source">Each person is in the best seat.</cite><br /> <small><i class="blog-source">[ <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226660575/teledynamics-20/">John Cage: Composed in America</a> ]</i></small></p></blockquote> <p>I made a recording of our band at last night's show. It turned out wonderfully. Am I going to share it with you? Probably not. Let me tell you why ...</p> <p>It is a curious thing, after the show, after the gear was packed and over some victuals, it is curious how in listening to what I'd recorded, several folks, myself included, were moved spontaneously to <i>analyze</i> what they heard, to compare it to what they'd heard before, what they expected to hear, what they would have rather heard. But that isn't the point, is it? I mean, that's not the concrete reality before us, that's not true listening. The truth is, the record is a record of <em>that moment</em>, it is our proof of being there, the shadow of the sounds we played. It is not <i>The Show</i>, it is <i>The Record</i>, and as such, it is innocent, and it is perfect, a <i>High Fidelity</i> witness to what was.</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2562#comments players of instruments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:09:25 -0400 mrG 2562 at http://blog.teledyn.com