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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:29 am
by Flaneur_Archive
I think Sinatra and Brubeck, similarly, entered the flow state, where they were prepared enough that they didn't have to think while performing (getting back to what Tim was talking about), and that gives their performanes their own kind of intensity and naturalness.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:39 am
by Flaneur_Archive
In developing his theory of flow, Csikszentmihalyi spoke with surgeons, pro basketball players, speed-chess champions, musicians, and others. All of these folks make lightning-fast decisions while performing their craft. Certainly these decisions involve cognition, but in that state these people are unhesitating and fully committed to the moment (and at the same time it's possible to have the clarity to, as you say, make a grocery list simoultaneously, if that helps keep the brain away from either boredom or anxiety -- the effortlessness is the main point).
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:45 am
by 242sumner
Flaneur wrote:"Going for It" means being in a state of
Flow.
From Wikipedia:
[Mihaly] Csikszentmihalyi identifies the following as accompanying an experience of flow:
1. Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible and goals are attainable and align appropriately with one's skill set and abilities).
2. Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentration on a limited field (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
3. A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness.
4. Distorted sense of time, one's subjective experience of time is altered.
5. Direct and immediate feedback (successes and failures in the course of the activity are apparent, so that behavior can be adjusted as needed).
6. Balance between ability level and challenge (the activity is neither too easy nor too difficult).
7. A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
8. The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.
9. People become absorbed in their activity, and focus of awareness is narrowed down to the activity itself, action awareness merging(Csikszentmihalyi, 1975. p.72).
The members of Umphrey's McGee may experience this state as well, but these elements are part of what is captured in those Complete performances.
It seems like an infantile state of narcissism. They are narcissisticly amused.
The thinking proces is not actualy suppressed.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:51 am
by frelnamp_Archive
I think Complete reached a different level of "FloP if you will adhere to my drift. It wasnt a lightning fast "flow" but more a flow of expressions reflecting their limitations were in terms of their musicianly tendencies, their emotional vibe continuum, and daresay I not even their very lives. Some sadness and humor or perhaps not in hehere if you want it.
Yes Complete performed an experience at us, if such. And yet agisn they even may, perhaps. But what of it? Let the knaves bray.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:10 am
by Alberto the Frog_Archive
This thread > Complete.
I <3 this thread.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:11 am
by big_dave_Archive
Someone let off some gaynomite in this thread and there was a fagsplosion. Unfortunate because this thread was about Complete.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:28 am
by andyman_Archive
Ty Webb wrote:Brain-damaged people are 100% really, really into making little mountains out of their mashed potatoes. And no one's mashed potato mountains are quite like their mashed potato mountains. Their exuberance when they dig in their hands, gravy be damned, is invigorating in its childlike purity.
But they're still brain-damaged, and it's still a mound of white mush.
This thread is what happens when people listen to too much punk.
I think i'm along the same lines as yourself. I could understand how some people could enjoy it for the passion and enthusiasm put in and learn to like the music from that perspective. However, i'd rather shake their hand and then not have to listen to them.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:37 am
by mrarrison_Archive
subtle non-standard riff pulled off by Complete:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRnPE1u4ruM
I like this song. It's short too.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:02 am
by fantasmatical thorr_Archive
Interviewer - "Ahh, tell us about the name Complete, where did the name come from? I know you put it together, or something.."
Curtis - "Mark here originally started it an er, we wanted to form an original band, that's like nothin else, you know like a lot of bands that are '70s and '80's..so ah, we took our initials..first initials. I'm Curtis, which is a C, O, M is Mark, P is Peter then Todd which makes Complete. Basically the initials is how we did it."
Todd - "They're in the band name, all them initials are in the band name Complete."
I'm sorry, I've put this off for aaaages. Wow.
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:04 am
by fantasmatical thorr_Archive
Do they got a MySpace page?