Environmental Interaction
When human beings work with material, shape material, the material shapes them at the same time. The potter centres the clay and the clay centrs the potter. While operating technology, technology affcets human beings as well. The mobile phone for example changed human decision behaviour. Interacting with material, including interaction with technology, shapes human beings and influences their spatiotemporal trajectories up to the point that others recognize them. In communities of practice the recognizing of spatiotemporal trajectries is a requirement for developing shared concepts out of which language emerges.
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Multiple Identities
What is a designer? What is the public notion of this group of professionals whose presence is…
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How do you compose a moment in which time itself is shared?
How can music bring people together for something more than a fleeting, aesthetic experience? How…
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Professionalism means efficiency.
When contact between people takes place on a professional level it is very purposeful. But it…
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Since about a hundred years ago, a concert of classical music has been a solitary experience.
The musicians are often far away, on an elevated stage. Your ticket tells you which seat you’re…
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The arrangement of seats in rows in a concert hall has only been customary for about a hundred years.
Before that, the chairs were placed around tables and coffee was served. A concert was a social…
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For centuries, music was above all something to do.
A concert was not a passive experience, but an activity. In church or during parties and…
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An inexperienced singer makes audible again how difficult it is to achieve perfection.
An audience can identify with the auditioner because it can imagine what that person must be going…
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Fighting and struggling through an audition.
The audience seems to be more interested in seeing someone fighting and struggling through an…
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Although there are thousands of professional musicians in the Netherlands, television mainly shows amateurs and wannabe’s competing with each other in audition programs.
Of course it is nice to see these shows being so popular. Young people are greatly encouraged to…
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Musicians are reserved people.
For a musician doesn’t have time to build up a relationship with the audience. To make ends meet
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Perfection is a standard.
Even an album recording of classical music sometimes consists of hundreds of small fragments that…
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Going to a soccer game is no longer reserved for a specific type of public.
Just like it isn’t strange go to an exclusive opera when you’re not a rich person. These are…
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Social relations have loosened dramatically over the past fifty years.
We are now completely free to opt for whatever we like, without taking other people’s expectations…
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There is so much that it is impossible to experience everything.
Even the most wonderful music can be done without.
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A music lover who has total freedom to choose whatever he wants, will not make a commitment to anything.
His decisions will always be tentative. With an abundance of musical offerings there is little time…