Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
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> >> > 
> >> > unique electronic music for the adventurous
> ear.
> >> > 
> >> > http://www.commtom.com
> >> >
> >> 
> >>
> >
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