Back on June 1st, I played a couple hours of music up the street at Tomato Joe’s Pizza and Taps. And, over the next few weeks I’ll be up there a couple more times.
There are a few interesting points worthy of comment. The point that leaps out at me, front and center, was Leo's comment about his blindness.
You can tell Leo, with complete sincerity, that his blindness makes him a better vocal coach. Beethoeven wrote his best stuff when he was deaf. Bats are blind, and they not only have keen auditory acuteness; they have radar.
It is not accidental.
When one sense is destroyed, the neuronal capability (or the power of your nervous system) that went into that sense will now be diverted to another sense. And so if you lose your sense of sight, nervous energy that had been devoted to the intepretation of images will now employ a very advancdd degree of interpretative power at understandiing sounds and touch (I don't think someone who could see could learn Braile easily)
Another Issue Re Playing v. Performing
There's another variable at work here: The audience. A very receptive audience can further electrify the musician. See the footage of the Who performing, at the Isle of Wite or Wriight in or aound 1970, and their rendition of the song with the refrain "See me, feel me." The audiience is on cloud 9 and so is the band's performance.
Leo and I have spoken about the one becomes more aware of a remaining sense when another is gone.
Regarding the audience... certainly. Both when I speak or perform, I let the audience know their importance. Then, of course, I inform them that if I perform poorly, it is obviously their fault. ;-)
There are a few interesting points worthy of comment. The point that leaps out at me, front and center, was Leo's comment about his blindness.
You can tell Leo, with complete sincerity, that his blindness makes him a better vocal coach. Beethoeven wrote his best stuff when he was deaf. Bats are blind, and they not only have keen auditory acuteness; they have radar.
It is not accidental.
When one sense is destroyed, the neuronal capability (or the power of your nervous system) that went into that sense will now be diverted to another sense. And so if you lose your sense of sight, nervous energy that had been devoted to the intepretation of images will now employ a very advancdd degree of interpretative power at understandiing sounds and touch (I don't think someone who could see could learn Braile easily)
Another Issue Re Playing v. Performing
There's another variable at work here: The audience. A very receptive audience can further electrify the musician. See the footage of the Who performing, at the Isle of Wite or Wriight in or aound 1970, and their rendition of the song with the refrain "See me, feel me." The audiience is on cloud 9 and so is the band's performance.
Leo and I have spoken about the one becomes more aware of a remaining sense when another is gone.
Regarding the audience... certainly. Both when I speak or perform, I let the audience know their importance. Then, of course, I inform them that if I perform poorly, it is obviously their fault. ;-)
Thank you!