via Echidne:
Monthly Archives: August 2008
links for 2008-08-09 [delicious.com]
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Stewart Brand's 1997 series, 3 hours of fascination, via elearningpost.com
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nice clear presentation
Delicious links, belatedly
(Not sure why the auto function isn’t working)
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via Neil Gaiman’s blog; “Yes, he really talks like that, his voice and accent musical and strange…”
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Oh yeah. I have a whole lot, collected over the years, and now perhaps someplace to put them…
Lamellophones
I happened upon this bit of organological serendipitude via Make’s blog, featuring a Pitch Bending Thumb Piano:
As an instrument, I think it’s not totally successful, but certainly heuristic for those who think about musical experimentation. Lately I’ve been deeply immersed in a wide spectrum of African musics, and the clip sent me off on a search for some interesting variants of approach to “thumb piano” (so many other names… sanza, mbira, kalimba…). Here are some of the results:
Jazz improvisation on a 5 octave Array mbira
Garland – Suite for Bass Sanza
Don MacLane’s musical instruments
Ken Kolodner Plays the Dulcimer-Mbira in West Virginia (and more via his Web site)
Xinjiang jazz
The always-enlightening Benn Loxo du Taccu posts from Beijing with a link to an ASTONISHING 9-minute piece by the Uyghur jazz group Panjir:
Nazirkom
Other tracks are accessible via the band’s Web site.