WAV?

Thats it my paradigm is so different from contemporary practice that even the concept of no audience is confusing.

Even when you are telling a story if it is in a smallish setting- maybe 20 people it is possible to do way more than entertain. Eye contact and body language work across space from individual to individual. People can chime in with proverbs, ranns, sayings that are appropriate to the story. These are things which are only made difficult when crowds are huge and amplification is necessary. Hard to interact totally with someone you can barely see and through as speaker. In this way there is no division between teller or singer and those who come to take part.

Get rid of the audience performer relationship. Placed in the context of the old music and the courts of kings and chieftains the audience has simply taken over the role of the royalty and is no longer the family or the village group surrounding the player or teller. We need to liberate ourselves from the excessive formality and the dominance of the performer.

Consult the history of the musician as dance master and instructor in Ireland. At first they served in courts and high houses but with loss of power of the Irish warlords they were forced to adapt, begin traveling the country and exployting the ordinary folk making expenditures upon them required for social advancement.

Before that on never saw these folks in the village and villagers simply played as part of their lifeway. As it should be now.

Conrad