{"id":1123,"date":"2017-01-18T09:51:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2017-01-18T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:51:49","slug":"a-grab-bag-of-human-music-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/a-grab-bag-of-human-music-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grab Bag of Human Music Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Girl totally rocks the original &#8220;Super Mario&#8221; medley (complete with coins and power-ups!) on a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheng_(instrument)\">sheng<\/a>, sounds like she totally belongs in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Figrin_D%27an_and_the_Modal_Nodes\">Mos Eisley Catina Band<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_z5MA4HifD4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A robot plays a pop hit (I love the rhythmic element that the robot&#8217;s motors and gears bring to the song):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXgB3lIvPHI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Props to <a href=\"http:\/\/arthurlacomme.info\/\">Arthur Lacomme<\/a> for pointing me to this one featuring &#8220;Mr. Curly&#8221; (which is the instrument, not the dude playing it). \u00a0I <b><i>love<\/i><\/b><b> <\/b>that watering-can clarinet Pollack demos around <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XNO97-mPP8U?t=1m45s\">1:45<\/a>!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XNO97-mPP8U\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(Arthur also recommends the <a href=\"http:\/\/rakarrack.sourceforge.net\/\">open-source Rakarrack software package<\/a>, which he uses when <a href=\"http:\/\/arthurlacomme.info\/?p=4809\">he rocks his Mr. Curley<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This one is pretty interesting if you stick with it; what you no doubt initially take to be a precursor to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=8-track&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1059&amp;bih=578&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi25J-B-MvRAhXl24MKHYFYC-gQ_AUIBigB\">8-track<\/a> is\u00a0playing cartridges loaded with ribbon-based analog records(!!!). \u00a0The macro-lens bit at around <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nBNTAmLRmUg?t=5m20s\">5:20<\/a>\u00a0gives you an example of both the sound (pretty damn solid) and the mechanism (OMFG! <em>W\u00fcnderbar!<\/em>) \u00a0Hilarious remote control, too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBNTAmLRmUg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/501834\">this guy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1124\" style=\"width: 534px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1124 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chordophone-lyre-plucked.jpg\" alt=\"chordophone-lyre-plucked\" width=\"534\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chordophone-lyre-plucked.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chordophone-lyre-plucked-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 85vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My beautiful picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(FYI, that\u00a0caption was\u00a0Wordpress&#8217;s suggested\u2014and I <em><strong>love it!!!<\/strong><\/em>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">o_O<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The thing that makes this one, for me, is how the strings are anchored <b><i>in the eye sockets<\/i><\/b>(!!!) \u00a0The Met has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/503023\">several of these<\/a>\u2014<i>from different generous donors and almost certainly different artisans\u2014<\/i>and they <em>all<\/em>\u00a0use the eye sockets and brow ridge as a saddle and bridge. \u00a0Humans, <em>amiright?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">N.B. that, according to current expert opinion, this thing\u2014which is indeed from Central Africa, where it was crafted in the\u00a019th C by a native artisan\u2014was produced\u00a0for no other purpose than to sell something fantastically &#8220;primitive&#8221; and &#8220;savage&#8221; to European tourists\/anthropologists (and thus inform European opinions of these nations and, in all likelihood, form the foundation of the moral justifications for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belgian_Congo\">brutal colonialism<\/a>). \u00a0I invite the reader to meditate on their own how this might mirror our current situation with imported polarizing\/fake news, and who the greater savage might be: The supplier who makes the ersatz evidence, or the customer who furnishes the demand and shells out the cash?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl totally rocks the original &#8220;Super Mario&#8221; medley (complete with coins and power-ups!) on a sheng, sounds like she totally belongs in the Mos Eisley Catina Band: A robot plays a pop hit (I love the rhythmic element that the robot&#8217;s motors and gears bring to the song): Props to Arthur Lacomme for pointing me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2017\/01\/a-grab-bag-of-human-music-technologies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Grab Bag of Human Music Technologies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[19,11,3],"tags":[30,35,20,23,53,41,31],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}