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gato -> RE: To Silencio or Not to Silencio (Jan. 17 2010 13:08:28)
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It's a compositional element. You step out side of what is expected you may be viewed as inapropriate, but for art to be real you have to take chances, and really, all compositional elements came in to fashion at one time or another over the years. So flamenco composers had to start using it at some point.
So if you like it you can use it, if you don't like it leave it out, but remember that you have to decide, and if you want to follow some kind of tradition, also remember that tradition is kept and altered by the same proxy. If we did absolutely the same thing all the time the flamenco would be dead, and it is that fluctuation in process in creating musical form that makes us contributing parts or members of the artform.
You can research something and be very careful, do as those around you or drop or add something and make it anew. But to go around limp wristed or haggle over the details means you are not man or woman enough to make a stand and make your contribution what ever the form, element or ideal.
This is what makes survival for an art and we constantly hone or re think our music and return to values and traditions that keep the flamenco strong and alive and recognizeable to all who know it. But it is that temporal process and struggle to make it what we know and what we also can create that makes it art, and makes us artists and contributers to something that is well worth the pride.
Otherwise the flamenco is just going thru motions that we somehow are raising on an alter and worshiping that is overbearing, and unmoveable, stahlid, and dead, after all, it's about what you can work with and then comes the work which is something that flamenco artists are known for that has that personal touch which cannot be duplicated by anyone else.
Gary
Of course how well you pull it off and/or how well you are recieved is another thing all together...........[:D]
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