What about hand/body gestures and facial expressions in baroque opera? ...or a silent movie, for that matter. Very artificial, contrived and totally HIP.
Chris Christopher Wilke Lutenist, Guitarist and Composer www.christopherwilke.com --- On Sun, 12/5/10, wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: > From: wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi> > Subject: [LUTE] Re: Karamazov > To: "howard posner" <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> > Cc: "Lute List" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 4:32 PM > Well, I guess I started this > (interesting, thanks to all commentators!) > "gesture talk". > > To me K's gestures in this certain video we talk here, > certainly are of no > "annoyance". Truly. They just spoil and hinder my possible > enjoyment of the > music - I just cannot close my eyes, when the music is made > visual. And as > someone already wrote, there certainly are cultural > differences in what > looks natural and what looks artificial. To me watching K's > "suffering"(?) > face in this very video spoils all of the possible musical > message. And as > I wrote in my message - this is my problem, not K's! > Neither anyone else's, > who doesn't get disturbed... > > Arto > > > On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 13:06:03 -0800, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> > wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote: > > > >> The video in question was not made for any > audience > > > > It must have been made for someone to see. This > was a professional shoot > > (with three cameras?), and EK could scarcely have been > unaware of the > > closeup camera. > > > > That said, his gestures do seem to be part and parcel > of his performing > > style, which is full of big, impulsive gestures. > Reminds me a bit of > > watching Jim Carrey in his more manic roles. In > the lute world, where > > gestures are normally small, I can see where it can > inspire great > > enthusiasm in some auditors, and great annoyance in > others. I suppose > I'm > > somewhere in the middle, I suppose. > > -- > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >
