Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

 a mouth organ (harp?
> what is the right word?)

harp is among my favorite words for the "harmonica"
but the others i've heard in the delta region that i
thought were great: "wheezer", "mule train", "mule
honker" and... "that hanky" as in "blowin' that
hanky...
\jeff gbk 




 
> > trying to reproduce train rumors...
> >  I think we are still trying to reproduce train
> music... but with no train 
> > (we have a full bunch of similar objects today I
> think... misterious and 
> > producing sound).
> >  we are all folkster to mean... popular I think.
> >
> >
> >
> > roberth <roberth@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:
> >  i have enjoyed this thread if we get enough
> > voices going with different veiwpoints
> > it begins to sketch the comlexity of the issue
> > robert
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Thaniel Lee"
> > To: "microsound"
> > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument
> >
> >
> > thankyou.
> > so hows life been treating you
> >
> > -t
> >
> >
> > On 2/13/06, roberth wrote:
> >>
> >> right on.
> >> r
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Thaniel Lee"
> >> To: "microsound"
> >> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:35 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument
> >>
> >>
> >> i personally think that the term folk art/music
> is a label that academia
> >> made up to seperate and segragate the
> poor/minoraties from the 
> >> academia...
> >> in my opinion low art is a black kid talking
> about being a poor black 
> >> kid,
> >> but high art is a white guy with a MFA taking
> photos of the black kid.
> >>
> >> On 2/11/06, mat.the.w wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps it is that the people who can only
> express themselves through a
> >> > more
> >> > analytical medium now finally can.
> >> >
> >> > On 2/10/06 10:25 PM, "jeff gburek" scribed:
> >> >
> >> > > i don't think devlashnull was saying
> laptoppers should
> >> > > start "covering" folk-music traditions. maybe
> the
> >> > > duelling banjos bit is a little too "hee-haw"
> to take
> >> > > seriously. but there is a concept underlying
> this that
> >> > > i find compelling: that the laptop has become
> very
> >> > > common tool for expressing, akin one's voice,
> which is
> >> > > also part of one's experience. i don't think
> of
> >> > > folk-music as just a genre wherein you have
> your rosco
> >> > > holcomb and your skip (or joseph) spence or
> records
> >> > > and your harry smith anthology etc. set out
> on the
> >> > > table to define what the music is. the
> argument has
> >> > > been made that all folk-music is essentially
> popular
> >> > > music. but i think of it differently: it
> comes out of
> >> > > the songs you sing while working or after
> work when
> >> > > waiting for the dinner that isn't coming
> because the
> >> > > government seized all your chickens saying
> they got
> >> > > some kind of flu. like that. arguably most
> people with
> >> > > laptops don't have those kind of blues to
> sing. but on
> >> > > the other hand, there is still isolation,
> death,
> >> > > loneliness and desperation and the laptop
> itself to
> >> > > make the material of laments
> >> > > jg
> >> > >
> >> > > --- roberth wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >> nice image
> >> > >> except going no deeper into the folk
> tradition
> >> > >> than a commerialized thing like dueling
> banjos
> >> > >> sure ain't dock boggs
> >> > >> maybe says something about
> >> > >> laptop shit
> >> > >> robert
> >> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> > >> From: "devslashnull"
> >> > >> To: "microsound"
> >> > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 8:00 AM
> >> > >> Subject: Re: [microsound] visual artists
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
> >> > >>> to me this is a further reinforcement of
> the
> >> > >> notion of much "laptop"
> >> > >>> music (and by extension "laptop musicians")
> who
> >> > >> exist outside of
> >> > >>> academia, or without much formal training,
> being
> >> > >> considered more as
> >> > >>> "folk-artists" or making a new kind of
> >> > >> "folk-music".
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> the laptop and/or personal computer (and
> related
> >> > >> software) having
> >> > >>> become, in our time, in our culture, as
> ubiquitous
> >> > >> as the odd guitar or
> >> > >>> harmonica laying around the house, are now
> what
> >> > >> could be considered
> >> > >>> "folk instruments".
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> conjures up images of "Deliverance" where
> dueling
> >> > >> banjo's is played out
> >> > >>> by a couple of folks sitting on the porch
> with
> >> > >> laptops.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> in fact on a tour in the summer of 2002 we
> (
> >> > >> 3-piece laptop improv
> >> > >>> group) played a version of "dueling
> banjo's" on
> >> > >> our laptops to
> >> > >>> represent that very idea. we cut up all the
> >> > >> guiitar and banjo sections
> >> > >>> individually and loaded them on seperate
> machines
> >> > >> and proceeded to
> >> > >>> mangle them into sonic suuuuu-weeee.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:16 PM, David Powers
> wrote:
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>>> It wouldn't surprise me if people with a
> "proper"
> >> > >> musical background
> >> > >>>> of some sort (I'm a music school dropout)
> are a
> >> > >> minority,
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> CommTom
> >> > >>> Communications of Tomorrow
> >> > >>> "it's only a day away"
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> unique electronic music for the adventurous
> ear.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> http://www.commtom.com
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>
> >> > >>
> >> > >
>
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