Tuesday, November 29, 2011

More on spontaneous music making...

I'm fascinated by the concept of spontaneous public art, when you encounter a performance in a suprising place outside of the theater or concert hall or a work of art outside of a museum. This is a topic I've written about before here and here. I just ran across another video that shows how "ordinary" people can be involved in such a pursuit. It's a piece called "Ring the Keys" by composer Rusty Banks.

A scene from one of my favorite movies fits in perfectly here. Dancing flash mobs have been popular for the past few years, but if we go back to 1980, we can see an early version of an impromptu urban choreographic happening:

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