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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>
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>
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