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www.britannica.com www.britannica.com
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The dancehall deejays of the 1980s and ’90s who refined the practice of “toasting” (rapping over instrumental tracks) were heirs to reggae’s politicization of music. These deejays influenced the emergence of hip-hop music in the United States and extended the market for reggae into the African American community. At the beginning of the 21st century, reggae remained one of the weapons of choice for the urban poor, whose “lyrical gun,” in the words of performer Shabba Ranks, earned them a measure of respectability.
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During this period of reggae’s development, a connection grew between the music and the Rastafarian movement, which encourages the relocation of the African diaspora to Africa, deifies the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I (whose precoronation name was Ras [Prince] Tafari), and endorses the sacramental use of ganja (marijuana). Rastafari (Rastafarianism) advocates equal rights and justice and draws on the mystical consciousness of kumina, an earlier Jamaican religious tradition that ritualized communication with ancestors.
Diaspora: the jews living outside Israel (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diaspora)
Interesting musical roots for Reggae... Wonder if this is still present?
Mystical roots.
(Note, I give this the fiction tag because I might want to look into this mystical religion for fiction writing as inspiration)
Logical that marijuana (a drug) is correlated with the mystical concept of communicating with diseased spirits for marijuana makes you hallucinate (or perhaps it's demonic in nature?)
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the music became a voice for the poor and dispossessed
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Reggae evolved from these roots and bore the weight of increasingly politicized lyrics that addressed social and economic injustice.
Reggae is known to have depth and meaning to its tracks due to tackling of social and economic issue as well as injustice in general.
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In the mid-1960s, under the direction of producers such as Duke Reid and Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican musicians dramatically slowed the tempo of ska, whose energetic rhythms reflected the optimism that had heralded Jamaica’s independence from Britain in 1962
Reggae came to be during a time of subjugation to Britain?
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- May 2024
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you've used a metaphor in the past of thinking of genes not as a as a code as you said but as a kind of musical score
for - metaphor - genes - musical scores - Denis Noble
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- Apr 2024
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web.archive.org web.archive.org
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I believe in the immortality of theater. It is the blissful hiding place of those who have put their childhood in their pockets and then left. Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt on Cabaret.
Cabaret as a form of satire, its literary, political, philosophical and poetic content are at the forefront of documentary interest; the ongoing collection and scientific utilization of its diverse manifestations is the central task of the German Cabaret Archive
The playful, satirical form of cabaret and its literary, philosophical, and poetic qualities are the focus of our documentary interest. The central task of the German Cabaret Archives is the continuous collection and the availability of these materials to academics and historians
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- Dec 2023
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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The Angry River - The Hat ft. father John Misty (with lyrics) {YouTube}
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues - in Paris. Restored video! {YouTube}
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Emancipator - Kamakura
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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London Grammar (2009-) - Wikipedia, English
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Heilung (2014-) - Wikipedia, English
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- Apr 2023
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Paulson, Michael. “Aaron Sorkin Revamps ‘Camelot,’ With Challenges Classic and New.” The New York Times, March 22, 2023, sec. Theater. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/theater/aaron-sorkin-camelot-broadway.html.
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He earned a B.F.A. in musical theater from Syracuse University,
Aaron Sorkin earned a B.F.A. in musical theater from Syracuse University, but didn't really put it to use until his work on Camelot which opened in 2023.
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- Feb 2023
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www.aprendevirtual.org www.aprendevirtual.org
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En la inteligencia musical: generarritmos, crear canciones, emplearsonidos medioambientaleso instrumentales, relacionarpatrones tonales y musicales conpartes del contenido, representaractuaciones musicales, construirinstrumentos, representarorquestas y asociar tonos ymúsicas con ideas y conceptos.
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inteligencia musical esla capacidad de interpretar,componer y apreciar pautasmusicales. Es la inteligenciadestacada en compositores,músicos y otros artistas.Crear un rap con objeto derecordar las normas básicasen la transformación delas unidades de medidaes un ejemplo concretodel potencial para lacomprensión y el aprendizajeimpulsados por nuestrasfacultades musicales.
Capacidad para interpretar, componer y apreciar pautas musicales.
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- Dec 2022
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Eno heard about No Wave, then the dominant style for downtown bands who were taking punk to its logical extremes—abandoning song form, playing entirely outside of formal tunings, and foregrounding noise over signal.
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Musical Chairs
The authors analogize educational levels and unemployment rates to playing musical chairs to underline the zero sum game being played in the labor market.
This becomes a useful argument for why a universal basic income ought to be implemented, not to mention the bullshit job thesis which pairs with it.
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- Apr 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, May 17). RT @d_spiegel: Great Covid statistical musical video from Italy! Https://youtube.com/watch?v=glueeURebDU (A limited genre, to be true, but surely one tha… [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1394298791600148482
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- Mar 2022
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lithub.com lithub.com
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Semasiography is a system of conventional symbols— iconic, abstract—that carry information, though not in any specific language. The bond between sign and sound is variable, loose, unbound by precise rules. It’s a nonphonetic system (in the most technical, glottographic sense). Think about mathematical formulas, or music notes, or the buttons on your washing machine: these are all semasiographic systems. We understand them thanks to the conventions that regulate the way we interpret their meaning, but we can read them in any language. They are metalinguistic systems, in sum, not phonetic systems.
Semasiography are iconic and abstract symbols and languages not based on spoken words, but which carry information.
Mathematical formulas, musical notation, computer icons, emoji, buttons on washing machines, and quipu are considered semasiographic systems which communicate information without speech as an intermediary.
semasiography from - Greek: σημασία (semasia) "signification, meaning" - Greek: γραφία (graphia) "writing") is "writing with signs"
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- Jan 2022
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www.themoviedb.org www.themoviedb.org
- Sep 2021
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cdm.link cdm.link
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learn to play music with whatever time they have left
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Gibson also has an app and learning system
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the app works with the light-up keyboard to teach you to play
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whether you want to have keys light up to tell you which notes to play in the first place.
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assume there are more beginners out there than there are advanced users and hope they want to pay the $299 + $79/year to learn to play music
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intended to help you learn to play music
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- Aug 2021
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We can use the itertools.combinations function to find all possible subsets of a chord for a given cardinality.
Ha! Found a Ruby method to do the same thing in Sonic Pi. https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/exploring-modes-of-pitch-class-sets-using-chord-invert/5874/10?u=enkerli
Glad this is explicitly mentioned here as it was my initial goal as I got into musical applications of Set Theory!
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- May 2021
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Università degli Studi dell’Insubria. (2021, May 14). Covid-19 Vaccine—The musical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glueeURebDU
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- Mar 2019
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www.poetryfoundation.org www.poetryfoundation.org
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Bessie, bop, or Bach
I like to listen to these artists, too.
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- Apr 2018
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sannapederson.oucreate.com sannapederson.oucreate.com
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Early music ensembles in costume in 1907.
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- Mar 2018
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www.atlasobscura.com www.atlasobscura.com
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Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
This is so cool. I highly recommend trying to get a tour.
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- Jun 2017
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www.musicalpassage.org www.musicalpassage.org
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But there were certainly many kinds of instruments being played in Jamaica at the time.
John Taylor (1687) describes a "kitt" thusly: "Then those pore slaves leave off work and repaire to their houses, where they gett their suppers, make a great fier, and with a kitt (made of a gourd or calabash with one twine string)"
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Angola
We have interpreted this piece as a call and response between the vocal line and the melody line. Are there other ways to interpret this? We also have not been able to identify what the vocal line means. We presume the language is Central African, but what language might this be? What does the word or phrase mean?
During the Jamaica Musical Passage Workshop, Earl "Chinna" Smith heard a song called "Runaway" within this piece. You can see them interpret it here:
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body movement, spirituality, and often, political organizing
This was powerfully illustrated at the end of the Musical Passage Workshop in Jamaica, which concluded with a recognition and celebration of Rastafari elder Sam Clayton through song & dance:
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Welcome to the Musical Passage discussion!
We are delighted to hear your thoughts both about the current state of the site and some of the ways we might envision expanding it, particularly in order to include contemporary interpretations of the music.
We participated in a workshop held at the Institute of Jamaica in Kingston on March 17, 2017, during which Rastafari musicians listened to interpretations of Sloane offered here and then played their own versions of the sings. You can watch five videos of the workshop, which include interpretations of Koromanti 2, Koromanti 1, Angola, & Papa, starting here:
We hope to organize other such events involving a variety of musicians in the future. We are curious therefore if you have thoughts about the following questions:
Are there ways we might incorporate such material directly in the site?
Or would it be better to create some kind of other portal or site to showcase this material and other interpretations by musicians? If so, what types of approaches/ tools would be best for this?
We also welcome your thoughts about any other aspects of design or content!
Thank you,
Laurent Dubois, David Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold
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a flexible feel inviting improvisation
In the Musical Passage Workshop in Jamaica, Earl "Chinna" Smith did a great improvisation on the piece using slide guitar, which was a really interesting way of engaging with the scales laid out in the piece:
His solo is here about 7 minutes into the video:
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a beat divided into 3 parts instead of two
There was an interesting discussion between a scholar named Peter Espeut & Earl "Chinna" Smith about the beat of this song during the Jamaica Musical Passage Workshop (starting about 10:20 in the video below)
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www.synthtopia.com www.synthtopia.com
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Anyone working with the latest generation of MIDI musical instruments – like the Eigenharp, LinnStrument, ROLI Seaboard, Haken Continuum and the Madrona Soundplane – has probably encountered the work of Belgium-based programmer & electronic musician Geert Bevin.
My thoughts exactly.
And it carries over to much of the world of expressiveness in electronic music, centred around the emerging MPE standard: Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression.
Let me geek out a minute. ;)
Coming late to this MPE game, been really taken by the fact that Bevin’s name is everywhere. Given his work with many manufacturers, it’s no exaggeration to say that this type of musical expressiveness wouldn’t have expanded the way it did if it weren’t for Geert Bevin. Of course, MPE isn’t that mainstream, yet. You could even say that it’s a bit of a niche, in terms of the already peculiar world of electronic music. Besides, it’s just an implementation of some things which have been in the MIDI specifications from the start, over 30 years ago. But there’s more than smoke, here.
A few days ago, ROLI has announced the Seaboard Block, which might be the most affordable MPE device as of yet. It’s also the missing piece of the puzzle in ROLI’s lineup, linking the Seaboard line of highly expressive keyboards with the Blocks line of modular controllers. Some have been saying that the Seaboard Block is the point at which the Blocks line starts to make sense. Both there are more dots to connect. One is that ROLI also owns JUCE, which is fast becoming the tool of choice to develop music apps on multiple platforms, including mobile. Not sure how sophisticated JUCE’s MPE support is, but it does have some MPE-specific classes. Another point, mentioned in the comments on this interview, is that Bevin was instrumental in the MPE support in Moog’s Model 15 and Animoog synths on iOS. As these apps are quite influential, their continued development can have a big impact on the iOS part of the MPE scene.
Speaking of iOS, the fact that the latest version of Audiobus can route MIDI could open up interesting possibilities. Jesse Chappell, developer of two MPE-savvy iOS apps (ThumbJam and DrumJam) has been teasing a forthcoming app which would somehow deal with MPE in a thorough way.
And there’s a broader context for all of this. Hardware and software devices for electronic music (controllers, synthesizers, loopers, etc.) have been integrating into complete solutions. Several manufacturers have been doing both hardware and software. There aren’t that many hardware solutions for the sound output from MPE, but it’d only take a fairly simple box (maybe Arduino-based?) to allow much of the hardware synth world to receive MPE in an appropriate way (something which is already possible in software).
So it really is a fascinating time to be getting into musical expressiveness through digital means.
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Two performances did seem to transcend the present, with artists sharing music that felt like open-source software to paths unknown. The first, Sam Aaron, played an early techno set to a small crowd, performing by coding live. His computer display, splayed naked on a giant screen, showcasedSonic Pi, the free software he invented. Before he let loose by revising lines of brackets, colons and commas, he typed:#This is Sonic Pi…..#I use it to teach people how to code#everything i do tonight, i can teach a 10 year old child…..His set – which sounded like Electric Café-era Kraftwerk, a little bit of Aphex Twin skitter and some Eighties electro – was constructed through typing and deleting lines of code. The shadowy DJ sets, knob-tweaking noise and fogbank ambient of many Moogfest performers was completely demystified and turned into simple numbers and letters that you could see in action. Dubbed "the live coding synth for everyone," it truly seemed less like a performance and more like an invitation to code your own adventure.
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The shadowy DJ sets, knob-tweaking noise and fogbank ambient of many Moogfest performers was completely demystified and turned into simple numbers and letters that you could see in action.
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- Jan 2016
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artsdigitalrnd.org.uk artsdigitalrnd.org.uk
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the notion that those who spend their life glued to their Dr Dre Beats headphones ‘aren’t interested in music’ as they don’t read notation or have an interest in the cello.
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