Great insights, Mohan. I shared it with a blues/jazz musician I know who made the following comment:
"Interesting point of view with the jazz analogy but his main premise about jazz musicians playing and responding to what's happening in the room overlooks more important points of the jazz musician's perspective, goals and raison d' etre.
Although it can be highly inspiring to play a great room with an enthusiastic audience, jazz musicians are highly introspective and often (and most importantly) play/improvise for themselves and the musicians they are performing with.
Playing the room is important but performing/improvising for their own self-critical, artistic souls is a higher priority.
Miles Davis sometimes even played with his back to the audience. Watch a jazz show and you rarely see musicians focused on the audience/room.
Eyes are often closed, heads are down in concentration and mostly focused on the music and improvisation they're creating onstage.
Eye openning prespective, I love to hear darbar sahib kirtan live, same shabad by different ragi's or even same ragi but nothing is same. I never realized why experience is diffrenet. "Experiential Asymmetry Is Everywhere"
We have the same challenge in manufacturing where interns leave us or trained people exit too soon and the training has to continue for fresh recruits. For the trainers to keep the same energy batch after batch was a topic of conversation last week and here we are helped by such an inspiring post from you.
A situation where I was struggling in.
Thanks to this article , I feel new blood flow all throughout my veins
Great insights, Mohan. I shared it with a blues/jazz musician I know who made the following comment:
"Interesting point of view with the jazz analogy but his main premise about jazz musicians playing and responding to what's happening in the room overlooks more important points of the jazz musician's perspective, goals and raison d' etre.
Although it can be highly inspiring to play a great room with an enthusiastic audience, jazz musicians are highly introspective and often (and most importantly) play/improvise for themselves and the musicians they are performing with.
Playing the room is important but performing/improvising for their own self-critical, artistic souls is a higher priority.
Miles Davis sometimes even played with his back to the audience. Watch a jazz show and you rarely see musicians focused on the audience/room.
Eyes are often closed, heads are down in concentration and mostly focused on the music and improvisation they're creating onstage.
Eye openning prespective, I love to hear darbar sahib kirtan live, same shabad by different ragi's or even same ragi but nothing is same. I never realized why experience is diffrenet. "Experiential Asymmetry Is Everywhere"
The experience is jointly created by the performer and the audience.
Loved this article Professor!
We have the same challenge in manufacturing where interns leave us or trained people exit too soon and the training has to continue for fresh recruits. For the trainers to keep the same energy batch after batch was a topic of conversation last week and here we are helped by such an inspiring post from you.
Cant thank you enough!
Thank you. Once I saw the pattern, I see it everywhere!