The Roving Musicologist
Found Sound, Outsider, Street Performers, Sound Events, Experimental, Recorded and Posted with a minimum of interference.
Homemade Instruments:
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Birthing Roma Stars (Pecs, Hungary)
Someone told me to be in the parking lot of the big market and to look for a guy in shorts…you will go and see guys in caves, some gypsy guys, and here, take these contact mics with you. Then a writer is there from Wire: http://www.representativetrust.co.uk/archives/414
and this guy Balazs Pandi I know, who plays the drums:
http://fucktothemusic.blog.hu/
SO there we were, after a long drive, recording these Roma kids freaking out. They turned the power on just so we could do this, and turned it off almost the minute that it was over, finally over, after a straight hour of noise. Once I tried to go outside and the kids tried to get me to drive them around in the car. I wasn’t going to drive that car; “fuck you” one of them said over and over. He didn’t know what it meant. When Balazs explained to him what it meant, he started saying it over and over again. Those were his words, yes, no, fuck you. He was the MC on the track.
Play count: 50
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Sejayno of Baltimore
Sejayno channels cultures of the future through cross-tuning and meditative chant, among other things. Listen to the monologue in the audio for an example of where I want the roving musicologist to go.
Peter Blasser, member of Sejayno and Builder of instruments, relaxing in his home:
The instruments used in the recording. The venue was the Theosophical Society of Baltimore:
Sejayno’s page:
Play count: 40
