Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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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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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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A musician will not easily be affected by a location.
His performance was already perfected in the rehearsal studio. He does not want to derogate from it.
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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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We are trained to ignore music.
Music is often used to create atmosphere. It colors our surroundings, often plays in the background…
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Not everyone has the expertise to make the right decision.
In such a case you go by the reviews. Or you pick something with a nice poster. Or you base…
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Every place in the world has it’s own code, with corresponding behaviour.
Besides, every little piece of time has its own label: work, social, recreation, self-improvement
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A concert hall is a specialized place, optimized for a particular experience.
The acoustics are perfect. Temperature and moisture exactly in balance to make sure the piano stays…
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A concert hall can be the place to learn anew how to deal with time.
How to engage with impulses that can’t go any faster than they are coming.
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Honesty benefits from time.
Taking one’s time is no luxury, but indispensable to keeping track of reality. In this world
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If I learn to quickly assess the impulses fired at me, this assessment will not be based on knowledge but on intuition.
Intuition can easily be manipulated. Politics and commerce make use of fleeting, one-sided imagery
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Knowledge without commitment to a subject will remain superficial.
A superficial multitude is completely different from an experience that arises from engagement. It…
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Speed accomplishes a lot.
A daily edition of a newspaper includes more information than a person would have come across in…
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Our desire to perceive, understand and react faster will leave us unable to truly participate.
We distance ourselves. The world is tangibly close, but we ourselves draw back.....
