Work and Music
This week has been one of the most hectic one in recent months.
I have written more lines of code this week, then what I have in the past 4 – 5 months. I am trying to make sure, the UI issues in my work don’t bother me ( I’m really sick of making things look pretty, and spend very little time on actual core development ). Well anyway I think I will get to try out some really cool things in the coming week, from xmldb’s to high performance process.
There was a Pooja today at the new office building where we will be moving into soon. Along with the Pooja there was other entertainment , which included many games and some jammin. If you’ve met me before, you know my musical talents 😉
Well anyway, I got to sing some songs today, though they did not come out excellently well, I’ve had my share of fun and satisfaction.
Was having a major discussion with someone today. What is Music about ?
– Is it the talent/skill/art ?
– is it about expressing your feeling ?
– is it about the fun and satisfaction ?
As for me, I am so bad at singing, I sometimes can’t bare to listen my own self. But most of the times, I have extreme satisfaction and fun when I sing ( though the people around me don’t 😀 )
Taking an objective view, I’ll go with all of the above.
However, you might be looking at things slightly askew. Allow me to ask another question.
Who’s the music for? What’s the audience? For whom are you doing what you are doing? The audience is an important aspect. (insert tree falling in forest quote here). So who’s your audience? Usually the self, unless one has a decent amount of talent. Which is why the singing in the bus, singing in the room with wildly varying tones and pitches is actually a good deal of fun. But of course we rib you about it, but hey, that’s part of the deal =:)
Going up in front of a mike in a pseudo-function might be a different deal altogether. Who’s the audience there? Heh. But I dare say the audience would have had as much fun making fun of your singing prowess as you would have had subjecting your talents to them. 😉
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As an interesting sidenote, I’ll play the devil’s advocate, and ask another question.
I have extreme satisfaction and fun when I sing
Why? Why do you have extreme satisfaction in that?
I think its like how crying makes one feel better when ur sad. When u r happy you want to sing or cream….then again…but then
does all that you ever do have to be for an audience ? does anything at all have to be for an audience ? doesnt every performance primarily belong to the performer ?
A performer needs an audience as much as the audience needs the performer. You cannpot separate the two – the relationship is symbiotic.
Some people try to downplay the audience’s role in a performance. These people have never stood on stage and felt the rush of an appreciative audience singing and clapping along, visibly enjoying your performance. It spurs you on – you perform better than ever before. It is a chain reaction, it crosses the threshold of ciritcality, and blows everyone away. It is good.
While it is true that some people perform only for their own pleasure, that applies only to private, closed door, performances. When you get up there on the stage, you are performing *for* the audience. If not, then get off the stage and go to your room.
interesting perspective. have felt the rush. it is all the more apparent when you are speaking. i guess you know that too well. when you look around as you speak, you connect with the eyes, and every lost connection gives you that one minute jolt.
but then there are times when the performer performs, and in the performance loses track of the audience, of where s/he is, of time. ancient indian performing traditions acknowledged this … the performer when truly involved in his performance, transcends the material, there is then no audience, there is no performer. there is only the art. (now i wait to be rubbished / told that we are ordinary mortals)
I have extreme satisfaction and fun when I sing
Ah! a fellow sadist!
Ah! a fellow sadist!
LOL … people have threatened to kill me many times 😉
barbarians!!
Absolutely right.
However, there are 2 kinds of performance
1. Performing on stage to entertain people, doing some quiz, being the MC etc.
2. Performing for self : Singing , dancing in the rain , dancing to the sound of some catchy music…
Anyway the reason I made this post was because, after having an amazing time at the jammin session, we were deciding what to play for our year end party, and Queens – Bohemian Rhapsody came up. So I was telling a certain someone that I would love to perform this, and that person laughs off saying.. ‘ what the heck do you know about music… to perform that you need art / skill blah ‘. 😉