RF: There are two big mistakes here:
CD: Bucket - Are you seriously suggesting that Robert Fripp has a 6th sense where he can tell the exact moment someone has pulled a camera out and taken a photograph, even when there’s no accompanying flash? Come on, Fripp is a brilliant man but he’s not psychic - I’m sure he wouldn’t suggest that he can literally feel a photograph being taken. A psychological sense of not being listened to, perhaps, but that can be for any number of reasons, some of which could be internal rather than external.
The first mistake is to assume that the limit of our own experiencing is the limit of the experiencing of others.
The second mistake is to assume that our experiencing within a performance context is the same as in normal, everyday, mundane situations. A performance event is exceptional; our experiencing within it may also be exceptional. Surely, this is one of the main reasons we go to the performances of artists whose work has moved & touched us? In performance (as in athletics) enhanced / extra-ordinary states are acknowledged, allowed for & commonly & described as being in the zone.
From today's diary, just published!
