Strum And Drum

1.
A common dream--to take up instruments without amplification, and take them to an area void of any need for entertainment, and play music of scrupulous wholeness with its assumed surroundings. Some people venture to sing songs about the nature they perceive, and some essay further, to play trees, grass, and stones. They may rhythmically drop stones in differing depths of water, and tell themselves that a) they are re-enacting a first utterance of human music, b) they are re-enacting the artificial productions of over-bred instruments in a properly primary setting, c) they are embodying through gestures of intentional vagueness a persona redolent to other persons of wholeness, wisdom, and native genius.

2.
The recordings of these activities could be constructed so as to evoke hallowed friendship, sojourns in total communion of understanding; the tape recorder is something of a shy raccoon cocking its head ingenuously at the singular endeavors of the artists.

Then again, the practice could serve as a neat tag and audible badge for a branded group or family of artists.