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I'm not willing to discuss anything in PM's but I am here and I think its appropriate. A MOD will shut us down if I am wrong. ok good and evil good... no one gets hurt, actually people get pleasure. Drum corps doesn't hurt anybody. evil... pain and suffering are a direct cause. The military kills people, hurts people.

Drum corps and the Military share an interesting relationship. Drum corps employs severly strict disciplinary values and teaches uniformity for the sole purpose of making art. The military employs severly strict disciplinary values and teaches uniformity for the sole purpose of killing people. Both share the same values but for different reasons. Making art is good. Killing people is evil. So while Drum Corps should distance itself from killing people, it requires the intense, mental and physical discipline and uniformity (military-like) to achieve its goals.

Good question! 1) Right now shows are designed and tweaked I'd say primarily for the judges. 2) The audience is the intended audience but I think what you mean is who is the show written for and I'd say right now shows are written for points rather than applause. 3) Yes. Judges shouldn't exist. You can't objectively evaluate drum corps. Drum corps isn't a spectator sport its an artform. Bach, Monet, and Joyce weren't making their stuff for judges. Judging defines the activity as competitive. The Competitivenes of the activity actually inhibits artistic expression. 4) It can be fixed. Get rid of judging. Get rid of rules. Let drum corps do whatever they see fit to do with their shows. No judges = no competition = no rules. No rules = whatever you want = better drum corps.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst application asks whether or not an applicant has any drum corps experience under the ACTIVITIES, INTERESTS AND WORK EXPERIENCE section. https://webapp.spire.umass.edu/admissions/c...gapp_display.pl

I'm with you on this

This is an easy one Overrated - oh sweet jesus the bluecoats... there were a significant amount of people who posted on this forum that bluecoats would break into the top three and some people even thought they actually had a chance at winning. Then when they topped cavies and BD midseason this place went nuts. and blooo winning horns at quarterfinals!? I don't think so.

Why not?

hahaha I like your sense of humor

its also more beneficial to the activity if everyone praises everything there is no improvement

I'm going to have to disagree with you here. I don't think music can happen by accident. I don't think a baseball hit through a glass window is "music" just because it vibrates the air in wave patters no more than I think bird crap on a car is a painting. Music has to be intentional, like narration. I'll go so far to say that you can respond to this argument by saying that the narration is intentional therefore its music. Well I'm going to counter that by saying that not all intentional sound is music. Alarms are not music. Alarms are sounds used for a different reason then music. Same thing applies with narration.

In that case, I congratulate... ME! I marched with a D1 corps and since your thread is all about goodness, I'm going to celebrate mine here. I was amazing when I marched and my marching has been so beneficial to me that its crazy. What I did was so good that I can't even stand myself.

well ok i was rude with my dismissive "no" I'll say more first of all... all sound occurs "within a given time" - no sound happens outside of time. I'd be impressed if you showed me sound that occured not within a given time that means that all sound occurs within a given time and if music is "sound within' a given time" and if all sound is sound within a given time, then all sound is music no, all sound is not music. example: narration

no

I hope so

I do think you're underplaying the importance of narration that is going on in drum corps shows right now. One particular drum corps this year had a huge amount of narration proportionally speaking. It was obviously a big part of the program for which there is no clear way of evaluating how that part of the program was performed.