Understanding Moonchild

 

You want to be careful here. What the audience sees/gets, has nothing to do with the actor/actress/musician. Conversely, what the actor/actress/musician thinks is not also what the audience picks up!

 

I understand...but in many cases what in fact the audience picks up is very fringe, meaningless, pointless,...the musician/artist is pigeon holed and that's everything written all over again ...just like that wall in England where someone wrote Clapton Is God. The many times an artist released an album, people found their own identity with the music, people gave the music a definition and the industry catagorized it on a silver platter for them, and they misunderstood the artist's original intention of the work...which leaves that cult following of Prog or any style of music..to at least half understand God knows what?..something about it. The artist is lonely. The people mean everything to the artist for the sake of sharing music and happiness with them.

 

It never is, and this is the one thing that we deceive outselves on all the time. When you think you got this across, something else came across that you did not catch or see at all!

 

I agree. This has occured for years and with very good positive results.

 

Improvisation is about helping find a/the/any "moment", and how to work with it. In the end, that "moment" is centered around "attention" and your ability to absorb and respond. Improvisation is not just about words, as some theater groups tend to make you think, and when you watch "What's my line?" you can tell right away what the "process" is, which is almost all sequential based on the physical movement, or last words.

 

Very true. The real proof in a group of seasoned musicians who have never played together and jam for a few hours....give little or no eye contact and follow each other perfectly. 

 

For these music examples, it is not what this is about, and it is much more elaborate and way further than the fun exanple that Dean gave us that fit the "What's My Line?" show than it did in music, or a serious acting/film rehearsal, where you ALREADY have a flow, and you simply have to find "details" inside that "flow" that allow you to say your lines/music in a much better defined context.

 

Only the best of "actors" get to the advanced stage, mnore like 1 out of 40 from your acting school or the like, and the same is for music, and the main reason is because these folks have the ability to zero in the "moment" and make it better.  Without that ability to get that far, and learn more, so you have more to work with, only means that your output will be grossly limited.

 

Thx