Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

in a sense, all musical instruments are themselves an
analysis of sound: what is built-in to their formal
properties are the ideas of the person who wanted to
represent sound in some new way. adolph sax had one
analysis and harry partch had another and still
everyone who makes music software has their own. for
me it is quite fascinating to see how many different
musical analyses come in the new software bundles.
maybe i am a little disappointed at the predominance
of orientation toward easily recognizable periodic
structuring (beats patterns) but overall it seems like
the laptop and cheaper pc is giving a lot more
opportunities for people to do their own kind of
homebrew atom-smashing experiments with sound. it does
seem that certain machines will attract certain
personalities more than others. the american poet
charles olson used the phrase "the verse print bred"
to mean that typography changed the shape of writing
from outside in. so i think the computer obviously
changes the shape of music by mixing various levels of
analysis...
jeff gburek

--- "mat.the.w" <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> 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"
> <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <roberth@xxxxxxxxxx> 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" <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 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,
> >>> 
> >>> 
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> >> 
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