'You can see me, but I can't see you!' – Rachel Smith on performing in front of cameras, without a live audience | Blogs
Rachel Smith A colleague and friend of mine told me recently that he’d been listening to an old LP recording of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra doing a live concert for the Edinburgh Festival. ‘Yes, the music and the performance were beautiful’, he said, ‘but what really got me was the sound of the audience. Like a living, breathing animal - I was moved to tears.’ Today I heard a poet and performer speaking on the radio about how he misses ‘surfing the energy of the people in the room’. These thoughts verbalise what I’ve been missing for so long now. One can hear, see and somet...