Re: [microsound] folk-music instrument

["mat.the.w" <craque@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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