The following idea is from Livingston Taylor. It is my interpretation of my recollection of a lecture from his Stage Performance Techniques class at Berklee College of Music somewhere back in the Fall of 2006:
We each live in our own reality. The Listener very much suspends their reality for the time spent listening to our music.
I think that as artists we need to respect the rights of the Consumer to consumer our art as they damn well please. Respect the fact they are consuming it at all.
As a listener, when "Bad" music is happening, I usually leave.
Therefore as an Artist, even if my audience is not Captive, I still try my best to respect the fact they are Present. Even if they are talking. Laughing. LOUDLY. Drunkenly. Whatever.
Don't get me wrong, my Ideal Audience is not loudly conversing amongst themselves.
However, I don't think they are captively listening either. I think they are Dancing.
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