Reply to Ronald Girardin

[matt.adams@wmcmail.wmc.ac.uk]

     >From: Ronald.Girardin@Dartmouth.EDU (Ronald Girardin)
     >Date: 12 Sep 96 09:24:23 EDT
     >Subject: Re: Len Bullard's comments
     
      >  " hmmmmmmm..... Although we all appreciate Kate's recordings,  an 
     artist can
     >only
     >truly demonstrate their art through performance.  Most of today's 
     recordings
     >are so
     >far removed from actual playing music that it's ridiculous.  Studio 
     trickery,
     >retake
     >upon retake.  Everything is calculated and thought out.  Only through 
     live
     >performances
     >can we see the pure emotion that is projected by the musicians and 
     the music
     >itself. 
     
     OK Ron, so are you saying that it's not really the art that matters, 
     it's the process of creating that's 
     important?  So watching Rembrandt paint is where it was at then?
     
     Do you not recognise that the recorded work *is* the art?  The 
     Grateful Dead may well have 
     decided that the live medium was where they were at, good for them.  
     However, just because 
     Kate is a brilliant studio artist does not give anyone a right to 
     expect her to play live.
     
     What you have said above is that you don't think Kate has truly 
     demonstrated her art by choosing 
     only to use a studio.
     
     I beg to differ!
     
     Matt