IdleRich
IdleRich
I got lost in a rather meandering and directionless post in another thread, but I thought that there were more interesting questions in the vicinity if I, or, more likely, someone else, could find them.
First off though, when you're dancing, and really when I say dancing here, I'm talking about dancing all night to techno or house etc I'm not talking about a dance with prescribed dance moves that one must think about in order to perform correctly. I'm asking, if you dance from midnight until six am or later, possibly on drugs and so on, what is in your mind as you do it? Do you just zone out, do you think about the music that is playing, or do you compile a shopping list? What is your mind doing for those six or seven hours? Is it working or is it resting - and is that good or bad for it?
And also, if one can ask all those questions of an individual, what about the crowd as a whole? Does that have thoughts, and if so are they simply an amalgam of the thoughts its constituent members have? Or are they something more than that... or less?
This arose cos I wondered what a crowd "thinks" if you transplant a tune from another genre and play it for them with tempo adjusted to make it fit the genre you're playing. Does the crowd notice that the song is different? On a conscious level or not? Or is it just that some individuals do and some don't.
And I didn't actually start this thinking like a DJ trying to gain an advantage by psychoanalysing the crowd... but I wonder, are there DJs who profess to work in some way from the thoughts of a crowd (I mean beyond really obvious reading of the vibe that every DJ does)?
Anyway, loads of barely coherent ideas splurged out there, now can a few of you sort of neaten that up, work out what I was trying to get at and maybe come back with a few brilliant and thoughtful answers much better than anything that I said deserved. Please.
First off though, when you're dancing, and really when I say dancing here, I'm talking about dancing all night to techno or house etc I'm not talking about a dance with prescribed dance moves that one must think about in order to perform correctly. I'm asking, if you dance from midnight until six am or later, possibly on drugs and so on, what is in your mind as you do it? Do you just zone out, do you think about the music that is playing, or do you compile a shopping list? What is your mind doing for those six or seven hours? Is it working or is it resting - and is that good or bad for it?
And also, if one can ask all those questions of an individual, what about the crowd as a whole? Does that have thoughts, and if so are they simply an amalgam of the thoughts its constituent members have? Or are they something more than that... or less?
This arose cos I wondered what a crowd "thinks" if you transplant a tune from another genre and play it for them with tempo adjusted to make it fit the genre you're playing. Does the crowd notice that the song is different? On a conscious level or not? Or is it just that some individuals do and some don't.
And I didn't actually start this thinking like a DJ trying to gain an advantage by psychoanalysing the crowd... but I wonder, are there DJs who profess to work in some way from the thoughts of a crowd (I mean beyond really obvious reading of the vibe that every DJ does)?
Anyway, loads of barely coherent ideas splurged out there, now can a few of you sort of neaten that up, work out what I was trying to get at and maybe come back with a few brilliant and thoughtful answers much better than anything that I said deserved. Please.