Do you believe that maybe if you had gone on first that the Audience may have reacted differently to the Audience Participation.

There’s be no way to know without giving it a shot one of these days.

But take that post-Stet Lab performance from March ’08 [recording…], and the opening to the March ’09 Stet Lab. The former worked better (in terms of audience participation than the latter. I’m not about to make some sweeping generalization from a few sample points, but I’m no longer sure whether the running order has much to do with it… or that there’s a lot of factors that come to play, and I don’t yet have a good grasp of what affects the overall behavior of the audience.

Did you have fun?

I did, but…

…If you had fun then that’s a successful sign no?

…I don’t think my personal enjoyment is a good enough reason to ask an audience to spend their time listening.

As an audience member or listener, I seek a certain (high) quality of music performance (I don’t want to waste my time), and I’m not about to use a separate barometer to gauge my own performances. I can enjoy myself just fine at home, but if I take something to the stage, It’d had better be something that works (however you define that) outside the performer’s little bubble.

Thoughts? Do you have a different take on this?

Thanks for reading!

One question I must ask is: Did you have fun? I think that all pther issues aside, if you had fun then that’s a successful sign no?