DISCUSSION

So, what can we learn from all of this information? Reflecting on the analysis I made of myself and using the information from the survey, the literature research and research on other forms, I think I can say I learned a lot. 

In my next year I will become a freelance musician and after creating this one concert, I think it is safe to say that I will make a part of my job creating my own music performance liking to this. This performance was my second on the cello suites of J. S. Bach. Creating a concert of 50 minutes was quite a nice achievement to reach, but for future concerts, I learned some valuable lessons by looking at other examples and looking back to myself through a video and through the eyes of my audience. I think I could create three or four different interactive concerts if I work more deeply on the material I already created. My mind is at least very much triggered to create more of these concerts and the book of David Wallace contains many tools to reach my goal. I am also happy I did not start with Wallace’s book, but found it during my researching process. I started from my own thoughts, making my own show a kind of natural product of me talking about music, and now I can elaborate and take advantage of lessons learned from others.

When I look at the research process itself, it could have gone more smoothly. I should have sent out the surveys way earlier so it is a shame that did not happen, I would have had more information to look at. Also, it would have been nice to start a bit earlier with my research. 

CONCLUSION

To conclude this research, we shall take a look at the initial question, and see how I tried to find some answers to it during the research.

How can we transfer knowledge to an audience in a musical performance?

To answer this question I looked at several sources. The first sources being books, showed me proper fundament for transferring knowledge to anyone. When we want to transfer knowledge, we first have to be curious for knowledge ourselves. Find a state of a truly curious mind, the beginner's mind as called by Suzuki. Next to this, we need to look for enthousiasm in ourselves and evoke this enthousiasm in the audience, for everybody to best be able to attain this knowledge. Last, we can apply a big variety of techniques to get the audience more engaged than we do with a passive music listening concert. We can use the time we have in a concert to make a performance truly interactive, to make the audience even join you in making music to make the audience also feel what we as mucians feel when we play music. 

Moreover, I took sources from the practice of transferring knowledge in a concert-like setting. Looking at other people being on stage, it is inspiring to see which techniques can be used and which different approaches exist. In this research I looked at three different people, but of course there are many. The possibilities are endless, but the thing I learned the most about this is, when we want to transfer knowledge to an audience, make sure we know what we want to say. In all examples which I looked at, they succeeded in their own ways because they knew what they wanted to transmit.

Finally, when looking at my own performance, I learned what I look like on a stage when I talk and how I behave. This was very useful to see. I also took some knowledge from what the audience took home from my concert. I learned that I can search for entry points in my music and develop them further. I can experiment with including the audience actively in the concert and last I can take my time to reflect on the knowledge I wanted to transfer, in order to really make the audience aware of what they learned. 

I am happy to have done this research and happy that I can continue to learn the rest of my life!