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Upcoming teaching · Apr 29, 06:25 AM

So here’s a playlist, for the music appreciation component of the course, plus some discussion about rhythm and texture. I doubt we’ll get through it all…

Section One is some harp/kora stuff, in various settings — abstract, traditional, eclectic world fusion

La Harpe, L’eau, Le Vent 1 / Harp, Water, Wind 6:05 Alan Stivell Au Delà Des Mots World
Allah l’aake (start) 2:45 Kolda/Brikama Musicians Jali Kunda – Die Griots Westafrikas und der übrigen Welt World
A United Earth I (With Youssou N’Dour) 5:33 Alan Stivell 1 Douar World
Chaviou Elwara : El Barm (Theme) 5:33 Dimi Mint Abba Music & Songs Of Mauritania / Musique & Chants de Mauritanie World


Massoua Mo 7:37 Eba Aka Jerome Sound D’ Afrique World
Madan 6:00 Salif Keita Moffou World
Mairi’s Wedding 5:55 Alan Stivell Brian Boru World
Let The Plinn 4:26 Alan Stivell Brian Boru World

Section Two some incredibly eclectic multifaceted fusions interspersed with traditional sounds that are the root of much else

Koeeoaddi There 4:45 Incredible String Band The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter Folk
Cross Road Blues 2:40 Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings [Disc 1] Blues
Allah 6:12 Youssou N’Dour Egypt World 1

Section Three — some artistic electronica antecedents, including a 5/4, faux Indian textures, and into the world of bass and dub,

Krishna Blue 8:12 David Sylvian Dead Bees On A Cake Alternative & Punk
Maarifa Street 7:09 Jon Hassell Maarifa Street: Magic Realism, Vol. 2 World
Chemistry 6:56 Jon Hassel & Brian Eno Fourth World Vol.1: Possible Musics Rock

Dread River 3:13 Burning Spear Marcus Garvey / Garvey’s Ghost Reggae
Approaching Silence 38:17 David Sylvian Approaching Silence Pop
The Carrier 4:20 Brian Eno & David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Rock

Section Four is more difficult electronica and post modern stylings although the first is just delicious texture and irreverent genre clash

Il pleure (At the Turn of the Century) 8:03 Art of Noise The Seduction of Claude Debussy
She Is Not 0:46 David Sylvian Blemish Rock 1
Late Night Shopping 2:54 David Sylvian Blemish Rock

Section Five — more, plus some differing vocal work and bass

The Angel 4:24 Jah Wobble The Inspiration Of William Blake Electronica/Dance
Sené (Working The Land) 5:59 Afro Celt Sound System Anatomic World
Alsema Dub 5:48 Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission Electronica/Dance
I and I Survive 3:53 Burning Spear Marcus Garvey / Garvey’s Ghost Reggae

Section Six — differing roles for the bass guitar

Family 7:24 Matthew Garrison Matthew Garrison Jazz
Birdland 5:59 Weather Report The Essential Jaco Pastorius (Disc 1) Jazz

Section Seven — Brazil, and Animal stylings, plus Bahia

Rouxinol 3:17 Milton Nascimento Nascimento Jazz
Os Tambores De Minas 3:38 Milton Nascimento Nascimento Jazz
Into The Light. 4:54 Jah Wobble
Mu Electronica/Dance 1

Segue into Section eight: some devotional sounds.


Qalbi Yuhaddithuni 49:35 Sheikh Yasin Al-Tuhami Magic of the Sufi Inshad World
Tala o Al-Badru o Alaina 5:58 Fawzy Havez Sufi Soul: Echos du Paradis [Disc 2] World
Shakawtu (a Capella) 3:52 Musa Dieng Kala Sufi Soul: Echos du Paradis [Disc 2] World
Meditation 11:10 Sheikh Hamza Skakkûr & Ensemble Al – Kindhî Sufi Soul: Echos Du Paradis [Disc 1] World
Dastgah Of Shour 10:35 Khatereh Parvaneh Sufi Soul: Echos Du Paradis [Disc 1] World
Devonah Shaw 5:05 Davlatmand Sufi Soul: Echos Du Paradis [Disc 1] World

Gurdjieff’s concept of ‘Objective Art’ — an art that would have the same effect regardless of the state of the listener… the horns of Jericho that blew the city walls down are an example. There could be a music that would freeze water. We have echos of that in architecture — who is not moved, even the atheist, if only for a moment, when walking into a large cathedral?

“I measure the merit of art by its consciousness. A work of objective art ought to be a book; the only difference being that the artist transmits his ideas not directly through words or signs, but through certain feelings which he excites consciously and in an orderly way, knowing what he is doing and why he does it.”

And…

“In ancient times dance was a branch of real art, serving as intention for higher knowledge. The limits of the dancer were expanded through non-natural and non-habitual maneuvering of movement. In its practice, they obtained a new quality of attention and a new direction of the mind, all with a defined intention. Through strict patterns represented by the participants certain laws became visible and intelligible.”

And..

Objective music… can obtain not only definite psychological results but definite physical results. There can be such music as would freeze water. There can be such music as would kill a man instantaneously. The Biblical legend of the destruction of the walls of Jericho by music is precisely a legend of objective music. Plain music, no matter of what kind, will not destroy walls, but objective music indeed can do so. And not only can it destroy but it can also build up. IN THE LEGEND OF ORPHEUS THERE ARE HINTS OF OBJECTIVE MUSIC, for Orpheus used to impart knowledge by music. Snake charmers’ music in the East is an approach to objective music, of course very primitive. Very often it is simply one note which is long drawn out, rising and falling only very little; but in this single note “inner octaves” are going on all the time and melodies of “inner octaves” which are inaudible to the ears but felt by the emotional center. And the snake hears this music, or, more strictly speaking, he feels it, and he obeys it. The same music, only a little more complicated, and men would obey it.

And…

Just as is now done on paper, so, once, certain information about long past events was recorded in dances and transmitted from century to century to people of subsequent generations. And these dances are called sacred.

For Mr. Gurdjieff’s Wife 1:31 Gurdjieff – De Hartmann Music of Gurdjieff-de Hartmann CD3. Thomas de Hartmann (piano) Gospel & Religious
Kurd Melody for Two Flutes 2:02 Gurdjieff – De Hartmann Music of Gurdjieff-de Hartmann CD3. Thomas de Hartmann (piano) Gospel & Religious
Assyrian Women Mourners 3:24 Gurdjieff – De Hartmann Music of Gurdjieff-de Hartmann CD3. Thomas de Hartmann (piano) Gospel & Religious

Israelis unleash Scream at protest
New weapon knocks crowds off feet
Sound blast triggers nausea, dizziness

MITCH POTTER
MIDDLE EAST BUREAU

JERUSALEM—The knees buckle, the brain aches, the stomach turns. And suddenly, nobody feels like protesting anymore.
Such is the impact of the Scream, the latest weapon in the Israeli army’s high-technology toolkit.
Launched Friday afternoon near the West Bank village of Bil’in, after another in the almost daily demonstrations against Israel’s controversial security barrier turned violent, Israel’s secret weapon lived up to its billing, by most accounts.
Witnesses describe a minute-long blast of sound emanating from a white Israeli military vehicle. Within seconds, protestors began falling to their knees, unable to maintain their balance.
An Israeli military source, speaking on the customary condition of anonymity, confirmed the existence of the Scream, or Tze’aka in Hebrew, in an interview yesterday.
“The intention is to disperse crowds with sound pulses that create nausea and dizziness,” the Israel Defence Force spokesperson told the Toronto Star.

Section Nine — more percussion, varied vocal and reed stylings, plus field recordings as music

DJembe 5:05 Salif Keita L’Enfant Lion World
Donsolou 6:39 Salif Keita L’Enfant Lion World

Al Bahr Al Gharam Wasah (Love Is As Vast As A…) 9:59 Musicians Of The Nile Luxor To Isna World
Horse Steps 0:43 Musicians Of The Nile Luxor To Isna World
Al-Aqsur-Isna (From Luxor To Isna) 1:28 Musicians Of The Nile Luxor To Isna World

Full On 8:57 Jah Wobble & Evan Parker Passage to Hades Jazz
Spirits 10:33 Bruno Moury & Christophe Mad’dene Spirit Of The Wildman, Didgeridoo A Nd African Percussion Instruments World
Old Morpeth Rant / Morpeth Rant / Hesleyside Reel 3:20 Kathryn Tickell And Friends The Northumberland Collection World

Section Ten — female voices and orchestration

A Seltan Nat Maslaht (King Of The Broom) 5:46 Djur Djura Adventures In Afropea 2: The Best Of Djur Djura – Voice Of Silence World
Isobel 5:47 Björk Post Alternative & Punk
Visur Vatnsenda-Rosu 4:21 Hector Zazou Feat. Bjork Songs From The Cold Seas Jazz
Gli Ultimi Fuochi 3:20 アリス Charade World

And this example of cross-pollination from field recordings

Aerial Tal 1:01 Kate Bush Aerial: A Sky of Honey Alternative & Punk

Section Eleven outro exotica

Words With The Shaman Pt. 3 Awakening (Songs from the Tree Tops) 5:19 David Sylvian Brilliant Trees / Words With The Shaman
Ich Gehe Jetzt 3:33 Einstürzende Neubauten Perpetuum Mobile

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