Pianist Andrew Lee’s concert at the University of North Florida’s Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, was an experience in which attendees listened to a form of music that is quite novel. In November the temporality of the notes played permitted each chord to appear and then disappear from the stage as if it were an actor in a play. The performance on November 7th allowed the lines to blur between the performer and the spectators. Thus, this essay will examine the temporal aspects of Andrew Lee’s recital, as well as what are the implications when the audience and the artist merge during a show. Allowing each note that he played on the piano to have room to “act” as if it were a character in a play created an awareness in perception of the sound that was heard. The time that lapsed between one note and another gave time to actually listen to what the note was saying, just as if a human actor was delivering a one word line. In either case, the spectator wants to understand what is being said to them, and what deeper meaning the actor is trying to convey. Music is usually played and heard with notes overlapping and resonating with and between each other. The timing between their arrival to the listener and when …show more content…
The soft tone of a key played, and allowed to entertainment in the audience’s heads will create quite a different affect when a deep or heavy note is struck. Nevertheless, the note (or actor) has time to deliver its performance, and the spectator has time to access how they felt about the note’s presentation. At first the long temporal lapses during the performance of November was a bit disconcerting, but as Artaud relates, “True beauty never strikes us directly” (71). Andy Lee connects to Artaud in this respect because in an effort to have the audience to see the beauty in each note he played, the listeners needs time to absorb them, before that beauty hits them