There was some guitar playing just now that felt pretty swell and that's a fish-that-got-away story as I didn't record it. I did record one previously and wasn't satisfied with it and there was another medium-sized one.
There is a difference in the freedom after you push the record button as immediately there are expectations beyond your own, even if one of them is just that of the tape recorder capturing it. When I'm playing and, I suppose, for most people, any input is another wheel turning with the rest of the clockwork that's making the current piece happen. It may not necessarily be a good wheel, tho.
You will never hear finer music than when a musician plays for himself. This is precisely because there are no expectations beyond his own and they are higher than yours because you know what he's done but he's thinking what he could do. If it's being recorded then it becomes a combination of his expectations and yours and that's the extra wheel that may in turn factor into the complexity or some other aspect of the way the music is being played.
Something I've considered is what I shall do with times when I do play for the hell of it as my thinking to record it has been to start the audio stream which opens it to the Internet. What I get out of that is everything from that moment is recorded high-fidelity (i.e. not just an MP3). The reason for doing it this way is that it's very unobtrusive and it's as easy as it will get to ignore it.
It satisfies a purpose to open the stream but it's vaguely wasteful not to tell anyone about it. There is no chance of releasing the URL of Cat's stream as that's for the MusikCircus and any use of it from RL means the listener is not coming to Second Life and thus it's a cost with little or no benefit. There is potentially the benefit that it would encourage people to come to Second Life if they knew the kind of music they can expect, tho.
The reason for mentioning this at all is that I'm considering getting my own stream specifically so I can open it on the Internet. However, I have some reluctance for just as I wrote above. I will talk with Cat about this as it's worthy of some consideration that 'advertising' outside of Second Life has value, particularly given there's so much of an impression that everything in there is karaoke and / or wash-out folkies.
No, I am not saying the folkies in SL are wash-outs. I am saying they are perceived that way externally. The PR is exceptionally poor regarding SL music.
There is a difference in the freedom after you push the record button as immediately there are expectations beyond your own, even if one of them is just that of the tape recorder capturing it. When I'm playing and, I suppose, for most people, any input is another wheel turning with the rest of the clockwork that's making the current piece happen. It may not necessarily be a good wheel, tho.
You will never hear finer music than when a musician plays for himself. This is precisely because there are no expectations beyond his own and they are higher than yours because you know what he's done but he's thinking what he could do. If it's being recorded then it becomes a combination of his expectations and yours and that's the extra wheel that may in turn factor into the complexity or some other aspect of the way the music is being played.
Something I've considered is what I shall do with times when I do play for the hell of it as my thinking to record it has been to start the audio stream which opens it to the Internet. What I get out of that is everything from that moment is recorded high-fidelity (i.e. not just an MP3). The reason for doing it this way is that it's very unobtrusive and it's as easy as it will get to ignore it.
It satisfies a purpose to open the stream but it's vaguely wasteful not to tell anyone about it. There is no chance of releasing the URL of Cat's stream as that's for the MusikCircus and any use of it from RL means the listener is not coming to Second Life and thus it's a cost with little or no benefit. There is potentially the benefit that it would encourage people to come to Second Life if they knew the kind of music they can expect, tho.
The reason for mentioning this at all is that I'm considering getting my own stream specifically so I can open it on the Internet. However, I have some reluctance for just as I wrote above. I will talk with Cat about this as it's worthy of some consideration that 'advertising' outside of Second Life has value, particularly given there's so much of an impression that everything in there is karaoke and / or wash-out folkies.
No, I am not saying the folkies in SL are wash-outs. I am saying they are perceived that way externally. The PR is exceptionally poor regarding SL music.
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