William Buxton wrote:
> -The little I know about chaos theory suggests that complex and
> unpredictable phenomena are "understood" in terms of fairly simple
> repeating processes.
>
> In short, complexity is no excuse.
Perhaps what is being said is really simpler than is being stated. Bill
says speak less, the others say speak enough. Perhaps we could agree that
there is such a thing as too little just as there is too much. Anyway, it
seems to depend upon people's experience as to which of the two has been
an annoyance to them on the job or the Internet.
In music you never have too much rehearsal. The pursuit of the
elemination of wasted time by charging high rehearsal fees has invented
the performance "reading" by all non-memory large ensembles. Not having
the time to rehearse means that all old music will be closer to a true
performance while all new music will consistantly be "read" badly. Thus
modern audiences almost uniformly dislike new music.
I always thought that Mies van der Rohe's adage "less is more" really
meant "less material used means more profits." Of course if you use too
little material then the building falls down and then "less means less."
The meaning of my company name, "The Magic Circle" is that circle of
attention where everything can be experienced by the audience and known.
Finding that physical space is a balance between ensemble size and room
size. We are constantly in pursuit of the ideal balance where everything
can be perfectly perceived. Walk in balance.
Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Chamber Opera of New York, Inc.
mcore@idt.net
--Ray Evans Harrell <mcore@IDT.NET>
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