Matt_from_Burn! You've got an interesting concept, but you're approaching it from a parkour perspective, what's new for you. C'mon now, you know how long humans have been singing, making up words for fun, or sitting with a pen and paper to write down a song. So please, you can't type to me about jamming it out there, when musicians have been jamming it all along.
But your concept still works because what you're jamming on with parkour is just as complicated an environment as a symphonic rendition. While the act of creating music causes more deaths in the rock scene, falls and electrocutions, the party, the parkour experience faces injury and death as the initial concept of this discipline.
Even if I was younger, I wouldn't do this. When I first started working downtown in the evenings as a theatre usher, employees in other buildings would show me how you can walk around downtown on top of the roofs, watching down at the intersection before the canal bridge, across from the court house, and we'd stand behind the screen in the theatre to hear the big new Lansing speakers and watch the movie in reverse. But I'm happy to leave it there.
However, I now long distance bike-hike, and see myself as traversing the Niagara Peninsula like some exterior parkour. Having Niagara Falls, the Niagara Parkway, the Lake Erie shore, makes the outdoors wonderful and exciting, what is basically one of the biggest continental migration routes. Too bad I got caught trying to sneak into the tunnel being dug for the new hydro diversion.
So my parkour involves glacial striations, looking up the lake, seeing a view that's been the same for over 10,000 years, looking across to The United States... many waterfalls, the falls, the rivers and canals, the great lakes... just like my music.
I was jumping off a three foot stage during one fast dance song,
playing guitar with my teeth when I hit the floor, not stopping, but,
chipping my one front tooth a little and breaking the high E string,
where it shot off the neck, slicing the sides of my mouth, bleeding,
making wounds that took over a month to finally heal, and the keyboardist was saying
I had stereo herpes. It looked that way. When I sang they'd break open.
I got facial wounds playing guitar.
That's so parkour.
