An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
Each audience is different.
Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
All audiences should be slightly off balance.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
Audiences can be very judgmental.
Never stop listening to your audience.