drumno5 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 There are countless elements of show design that transcend "taste." Well I can't see the image because it's blocked here at work, but I know it's that photo of the crowd howling during Madison's performance in '82, with that guy with the hat in the middle and the lady with her arms in the air. Very nice that the Scouts (who blew the stands apart in Montreal that night, as I recall) generated that big response, and surely gratifying to the kids on the field. But that stuff about the emotional impact being "achieved as dictated by a quantitative mapping from auditory and visual perception to chemical releases and neurological processes," (with its obligatory implication that G bugle drum corps from back in the day is inherently "better" - whatever that might mean) is a little too pseudo for me. I was at several shows this past summer. The audiences stood and howled, just like back in the good old days, and I didn't see any flashing "applause" signs prompting them to do so. What makes their auditory and visual perception and the attendant chemical releases and neurological processes in response thereto any less valid? Peace, Fred O. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 One of my favorite warm-up questions for my students is "What makes a novel/poem/short story great?" Getting their reactions to "All Art is Quite Useless" by Wilde is also fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corpsband Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Non-Scientific Methods of Studying Audience Reaction in Drum Corps This always seems very non-scientific to me ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glory Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 ...I was at several shows this past summer. The audiences stood and howled, just like back in the good old days, and I didn't see any flashing "applause" signs prompting them to do so. What makes their auditory and visual perception and the attendant chemical releases and neurological processes in response thereto any less valid?... That just happened! Shake and bake. HH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrillmanSop06 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 I was at several shows this past summer. The audiences stood and howled, just like back in the good old days, and I didn't see any flashing "applause" signs prompting them to do so. What makes their auditory and visual perception and the attendant chemical releases and neurological processes in response thereto any less valid? HU-BURN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mello Dude Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Well I can't see the image because it's blocked here at work, but I know it's that photo of the crowd howling during Madison's performance in '82, with that guy with the hat in the middle and the lady with her arms in the air. Very nice that the Scouts (who blew the stands apart in Montreal that night, as I recall) generated that big response, and surely gratifying to the kids on the field. But that stuff about the emotional impact being "achieved as dictated by a quantitative mapping from auditory and visual perception to chemical releases and neurological processes," (with its obligatory implication that G bugle drum corps from back in the day is inherently "better" - whatever that might mean) is a little too pseudo for me. I was at several shows this past summer. The audiences stood and howled, just like back in the good old days, and I didn't see any flashing "applause" signs prompting them to do so. What makes their auditory and visual perception and the attendant chemical releases and neurological processes in response thereto any less valid? Peace, Fred O. Where precisely, in this thread, has this been mentioned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvs me sum mello! Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumno5 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) Where precisely, in this thread, has this been mentioned? When I look at the site on my work computer, most of the posted images are blocked. But down where Hroth's signature photo (the one with the hat and the raised arms) would be, there is a little frame that says "posted image," along with this caption: Figure 6.5: A crowd reacts uniformly to a musical and visual event in the Madison Scouts' 1982 finals performance. Notice the consistency in the emotional effect achieved as dictated by a quantitative mapping from auditory and visual perception to chemical releases and neurological processes. The notion of "taste" (outside of that in drum corps in the first place) is almost entirely absent from this process. I'm referring to that caption in my reply to Hroth's post. Edited January 11, 2011 by drumno5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Boo Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 When I look at the site on my work computer, most of the posted images are blocked. But down where Hroth's signature photo (the one with the hat and the raised arms) would be, there is a little frame that says "posted image," along with this caption: Figure 6.5: A crowd reacts uniformly to a musical and visual event in the Madison Scouts' 1982 finals performance. Notice the consistency in the emotional effect achieved as dictated by a quantitative mapping from auditory and visual perception to chemical releases and neurological processes. The notion of "taste" (outside of that in drum corps in the first place) is almost entirely absent from this process. I'm referring to that caption in my reply to Hroth's post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hup234 Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 People have different tastes. There is no magic formula that appeals to everybody when it comes to finding aesthetic pleasure in what we see and hear for entertainment. Numbers always tell when people won't. The public votes with its presence/absence and its wallets. And when they continue to stay away, when they don't buy certain cars or toothpaste . . . or when attendance falls over time at certain types of movies (or at outdoor pageantry events), or when general membership numbers continue to drop over the years in organizations such as the Elks, Moose and Eagles (or in drum corps), smart promoters discuss changing the formula. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.