maybe you're right. the laptop isn't disposable enough
yet. maybe in a decade?
--- roberth <roberth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the dead c are my favorite folk band.
actually i am quoting jack rose.
i don't agree about the laptop sorry,
actually the cheap casio is the folk music
instrument all over the world.
robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "jeff gburek" <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:25 PM
Subject: [microsound] folk-music instrument
>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,
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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