Monica Hall wrote:
I think it depends on the purpose for which players post their videos.
Stuart often posts some of the Foscarini pieces I am transcribing and
I'm sure he wont mind my saying that they are not polished
professional performances. Often they are done in a hurry as well.
But I find them enormously helpful - because I can hear someone else
playing them and think about ways of improving them. I am pleased
that he thinks they are worth exploring.
Well I'm glad you find them helpful and I'm happy floundering around in
strange territory. But in this sort of case is it best to make an mp3
and just send it to you personally?
The same is true of the things on my web site - people's comments and
queries are invaluable.
Of course we should avoid saying really tactless things (and perhaps I
am sometimes guilty of this). But I think we should be free to
express an opinion.
At least as far as this list is concerned we are surely all friends.
Monica
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Sauvage Valéry" <sauvag...@orange.fr>
Cc: <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 10:42 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: constructive critical commentary
Sauvage Valéry wrote:
So I'm not sure Youtube is the place for constructive commentary,
but more
for sharing music we love
I've put up some youtube videos. Is it folly, vanity, lack of
self-awareness? Sometimes it's like a goal to aim for - to choose a
piece, practice it, video it, and upload it as a sort of
resolution... and then move on! Sometimes the little video I have
uploaded has been an example of something.
Like Valéry, I know (or think I know) much of what is wrong with my
playing. And - like most players of musical instruments, ever - I'm
not a professional, just an amateur trying to play as well as I can.
And so I know nothing of, nor have any skills at all in the
presentation and stagecraft of music - of communicating to an
audience. But youtube doesn't have an audience in that sense - just
people dipping in and out watching perhaps just a few seconds and
then clicking away. And a video of a farting cat on a unicycle will
always get the big hits anyway.
But I do agree with David that people constructive criticism could
make me, and others play better (and perhaps Valéry too?) - and see
things in the music and interpret some things better and offer
technical solutions etc etc (probably quite a lot of etcs). After a
very long time I've been looking at some English lute music and the
ornaments and it would be really interesting to get comments from
people who are steeped in all that.
I'm not a fan of ning ("Cuthbert is now friends with Melanie" etc)
but I could see the use of something like a ning site dedicated only
to constructive criticism of performances lute/allied plucked
intruments - where you have to sign up to comment and preferably you
sign up on the understanding that you submit something. And each
person would indicate: beginner, amateur, professional in their
performances and in their comments. Better still would be link from
here to somewhere dedicated to constructive criticism if that is what
you actually wanted.
Stuart
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