I think something like what you’re describing would work best with very well known songs, or with musicians who are very good at listening and following. But I suspect that any songs people were muddling through would be pretty painful to the people without instruments.
There are a lot of aesthetics a solstice could have, but I like it best when it can make the full arc down through dark-and-serious. And I think that’s not really compatible with a room full of people with instruments.
Nod. Yes to be clear I was imagining this coming alongside some stabilization of songs into a dedicated canon. (which I think we’re closer to now)
I think I was also implicitly assuming a first skill of ‘know when you know enough about what you’re doing to know when to be silent or soft.’ I think this usually (at events I’ve been to) has been modulated by people naturally being scared of embarrassing themselves. I agree that someone not having that and some dunning-Krueger could be quite bad, esp. for the middle act.
It also does seem fine for the middle act to just be more explicitly rehearsed/perfromance-piece-y, while leaving the final upbeat songs more of an ‘everyone can join in’ thing.
I think something like what you’re describing would work best with very well known songs, or with musicians who are very good at listening and following. But I suspect that any songs people were muddling through would be pretty painful to the people without instruments.
There are a lot of aesthetics a solstice could have, but I like it best when it can make the full arc down through dark-and-serious. And I think that’s not really compatible with a room full of people with instruments.
Nod. Yes to be clear I was imagining this coming alongside some stabilization of songs into a dedicated canon. (which I think we’re closer to now)
I think I was also implicitly assuming a first skill of ‘know when you know enough about what you’re doing to know when to be silent or soft.’ I think this usually (at events I’ve been to) has been modulated by people naturally being scared of embarrassing themselves. I agree that someone not having that and some dunning-Krueger could be quite bad, esp. for the middle act.
It also does seem fine for the middle act to just be more explicitly rehearsed/perfromance-piece-y, while leaving the final upbeat songs more of an ‘everyone can join in’ thing.