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Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument
it`s called a jew`s harp (think about that for a moment).
manuel
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Luca Confusione <lucaconfusione@xxxxxxxx>
> An: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Betreff: Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument
> Datum: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:23:51 +0100 (CET)
>
> I have a good definition of folk music from guthrie novel...
> talking about a kid playing a mouth organ (harp? what is the right
> word?) 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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