Is playing to track cheating?

My band Sungazer plays to backing tracks - are we cheating? Or are we simply continuing the tradition of Pierre Schaefer and the electroacoustic avant-garde of the 1950's? Or...is that just a pretentious way of justifying lazy practice?

I was recently on an episode of PBS Sound Field where I jammed with Nahre Sol, a classical pianist, and LA Buckner, a gospel/R&B drummer, and talked about our different backgrounds and approaches to playing. Check it out!


The band SUNGAZER is...

☀️Adam Neely (that's me!) - Bass
☀️Shawn Crowder - Drums

w/ special guests

☀️Jared Yee - Saxophone
☀️Danae Greenfield - Keys

Definition of Acousmatic Music


Antoine Hennion. ”As Fast as One Possibly Can ...”: Virtuosity, a Truth of Musical Performance. Stan Hawkins. Critical Musicological Reflections. Essays in Honour of Derek B. Scott, Ashgate, pp.125-138, 2012. ffhal-00771908f

ELECTRONIC MUSIC is the new acousmatic music


The relationship of Husserlian phenomenology to the work of Pierre Schaeffer


3 Fantaisies for Solo Flute, Op.38
Friedrich Kuhlau
Performed by Paolo Dalmoro


Whitney Houston lip sync


Obama Inauguration performance was pantomimed


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