Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

it's very strange that this post just showed up in my
mail box only a minute ago when you actually seemed to
post them on the 11th...hmmm.. jg

--- "mat.the.w" <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is like what I was getting at a few days ago
> when I asked someone if
> they could tell the difference between academic and
> non-academic music. I
> think it's silly to claim there remains a
> difference.
> 
> The same goes for the very old-fashioned and
> musicological notion of 'folk'
> versus 'art' music. Downtown/Uptown. East/West.
> Detroit/Münich. The folds
> these days are so extremely blurred, it's difficult
> to approach them without
> falling deeper in the other direction.
> 
> But I think these terms to some are more like a flag
> to rally behind rather
> than a description of what the art is. I mean, the
> word 'punk' itself is
> probably one of the most heavily loaded social terms
> out there, especially
> if you consider its influences and predecesors in
> addition to its artists,
> both musical and visual. One reason I try to stay
> away from it (the word),
> because so much of what I hear, none of which I
> would call punk, different
> groups of people call punk, but without a lot of
> agreement or overlap.
> 
> I believe the laptop is more of a tool than a means
> to an end. I don't use
> one when I record live music, but my live music most
> certainly would be
> considered electronic/electronica/electro-acoustic.
> A lot of people do this.
> 
> With this view, it's really not as relevant what the
> instrument (or media)
> is in folk, which makes it such a wonderfully broad
> and expansive body of
> music and art.
> 
> On 2/11/06 5:08 AM, "mhwrpc@xxxxxxxxxxx"
> <mhwrpc@xxxxxxxxxxx> scribed:
> 
> > What's the difference between that and our
> perception of the folk artist?  For
> > me, terms like folk and punk have long been
> cultural/social tags that have
> > very little to do with the actual sound of
> recordings or performances.  Then
> > you have Henry Flynt.....
> 
> 
> 
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