Read this. I know it looks long at first glance, but it is one of the most powerful articles I have come upon in a long time.
Tragic. Stunning. Telling.
my corner of nowhere particular
Read this. I know it looks long at first glance, but it is one of the most powerful articles I have come upon in a long time.
Tragic. Stunning. Telling.
Your link didn’t work for me but I googled it.
Wow.
The link has been fixed.
Also, have any of you seen ‘Koyaanisqatsi.’ One of my co-workers lent me the film awhile back. It’s a series of images put to music that do a great job in illustrating how we are destroying our world and how we aren’t a people of art and beauty as much as industry and productivity.
I’m glad you thought this was great. I was pretty blown away by it. Even though I’m a musician myself, I often ignore the street musicians. I have become rather cold hearted over the years, I fear.
I wonder how different the experiment would have been if he played somewhere other than a metro plaza. Most people walking by had somewhere else to be. Few, if any, of the listeners really wanted to be in a train station longer than they needed to.
Thinking back to times when I have listened to street preformers, they were all in relaxed environments, and I enjoyed a respite. Had he been playing on the Atlantic City boardwalk or even Central Park, I think more people would have taken notice.
True. I often stop in Harvard Sq. to listen to people play. I’m usually just hanging around, drinking coffee and shopping, so I’m much more inclined to spend time enjoying the street performers.
I think that might have been the point. If the location is nice, you will stop. They were looking for a place that wasn’t nice to stop so that it was DEFINITELY the music doing the stopping I’m thinking. Kind of like trying to control outside variables in an experiment.
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/04/09/what-happens-when-a-maestro-plays-the-subway/