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community. Several of these experienced members serve as teachers and clinicians,
and have resources that range from the online text-based lesson enhanced with Stick
tablature and streaming audio to the YouTube lesson video.
The emerging technology of Skype, however, has produced an increased level of
interaction. At the suggestion of a poster on stickist.com, a few experienced stickists
announced their intention to start teaching lessons through Skype, payable through a
PayPal account, in the fall of 2008. This format seemingly brings its members one step
closer to the full dialogue seen in more traditional musical transmission. Despite the
increased interconnectivity afforded by these recent technologies, however,
participation in the scene is still, in some regards, a flattened encounter. Lee and
Patterson describe interactions in the virtual scene as "flat, in that it consists of words
on paper and the images they can conjure" (Patterson and Bennett 191, 2004). In the
current ecosystem, with its increasing reliance on streaming audiovisual technology, this
description seems outdated. Television, however, itself becoming outdated, is a
flattened projection of world that abolishes the remoteness of the represented. If
television frantically "abolishes distance while bringing no nearness," the Internet truly
brings that which is far near, and that which is near far, ensuring that "everything gets
lumped into uniform distancelessness" of pixels and resolution (Heidegger 1971, 164).
Virtuality, however, does seem to induce a sense of presence. Skype teachers
recount waking up in the middle of the night for a lesson with a stickist in mid-day
Australia, or teaching a soldier stationed in the Iraqi desert followed by an Alaskan62
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Hodges, Jeff. "Being" a Stickist: A Phenomenological Consideration of "Dwelling" in a Virtual Music Scene, thesis, May 2010; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28430/m1/70/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .