Can video conferencing and/or recording-and-playing be viewed as an alternative to concerts abroad?
Though one trip can have many concerts to make it more cost-effective, video-conferencing might be less stressful (especially on senior artists), and might also avoid some issues which harimau talked about in "What artists owe the rasikas, organisers and their art" thread. Re-scheduling in particular should be much easier this way, since there's no booked travelling involved.
Let us discuss the pros and cons of it!
Video (conferences) alternative to live concerts?
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Nick H
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No.
There are so many aspects to a concert, I don't know that the experience can be defined. Even the social aspects are included. Even the annoying aspects are part of the parcel. For the musicians too, the travel and the interaction with those abroad are also a part of the parcel. The presence of a live audience is always an influence on musicians.
We have options already for listening to music in the home.
Furthermore, I doubt that anyone will pay for the experience, and at least some of those that do will record the event and distribute it (or possibly even sell it) to others who have not, which will not please artists or organisers.
Also on the financial aspect --- who will pay artists dollar rates to sit in front of a camera in Chennai and play? How would they achieve the ancillary earnings which they receive from teaching, etc? This is all part of our carnatic economy these days.
We can go to the net, to the TV, to the DVD to see events that we could not attend live, but it is just not an equal substitute for the 'real' thing.
There are so many aspects to a concert, I don't know that the experience can be defined. Even the social aspects are included. Even the annoying aspects are part of the parcel. For the musicians too, the travel and the interaction with those abroad are also a part of the parcel. The presence of a live audience is always an influence on musicians.
We have options already for listening to music in the home.
Furthermore, I doubt that anyone will pay for the experience, and at least some of those that do will record the event and distribute it (or possibly even sell it) to others who have not, which will not please artists or organisers.
Also on the financial aspect --- who will pay artists dollar rates to sit in front of a camera in Chennai and play? How would they achieve the ancillary earnings which they receive from teaching, etc? This is all part of our carnatic economy these days.
We can go to the net, to the TV, to the DVD to see events that we could not attend live, but it is just not an equal substitute for the 'real' thing.
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srikant1987
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When video conferencing, a general picture of the audience, and the sounds in the hall they sit in is also shown to the artists.
If the artist is being screened at a place in USA, the ticket you buy to see them will be in dollars, right?
Just like Indians buy tickets paying several rupees to see their favourite American movies.
What I'm talking of is something like mArgazhi rAgam. And even more.
If the artist is being screened at a place in USA, the ticket you buy to see them will be in dollars, right?
Just like Indians buy tickets paying several rupees to see their favourite American movies.
What I'm talking of is something like mArgazhi rAgam. And even more.
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arasi
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srikant,
Nothing like a live concert. Yet, what you say can be well utilized when it comes to small town concerts where organizing, poor attendance and poor collection can make it difficult for all who are involved in it to pull off a concert. It is a good idea that where the sound facilities are premium, and listeners are aplenty, the organizers arrange for an extra concert specially for this purpose and show it at these places where there are only a handful of rasikAs. Worth trying, I suppose...
Nothing like a live concert. Yet, what you say can be well utilized when it comes to small town concerts where organizing, poor attendance and poor collection can make it difficult for all who are involved in it to pull off a concert. It is a good idea that where the sound facilities are premium, and listeners are aplenty, the organizers arrange for an extra concert specially for this purpose and show it at these places where there are only a handful of rasikAs. Worth trying, I suppose...
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Nick H
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It must be somewhat disheartening for an artist to be confronted with six people in an hall with a capacity of 200, and I know it happens, because I've seen it in London, where, goodness knows, the potential audience is big enough --- but for a lesser-known name, especially where tickets have to be bought (which can be a substantial expense for a family) very many will not bother.arasi wrote:...poor attendance and poor collection can make it difficult for all who are involved in it to pull off a concert...
Thus it came about that, one evening, I was one of a mere dozen or so people who gathered to hear Narasimhachari, who, if known for anything there, would have been known as a dancer, sing.
It was not meant to be a 'house' concert, but it felt like it, and he gave us a wonderful performance.
Some of those concert 'failures' can be magical successes!