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Winthrop House authorities weren’t too pleased with the change from their “kumbaya folk music” to the harder edged sound, and the group was relegated to the practice rooms. But even there, they are occasionally shut down when they overpower the sound-proof walls, and long for a space that is compatible with their needs
Percussive music has deep roots in Korean culture. Jung S. Lee ’04, another troupe co-leader, estimates that it dates back several centuries and that it is the oldest of Korean folk arts traditions. Dancing and drumming is the type of thing farmers would do in order to unwind after a long spell in the fields, Lee says. Ahn says drumming “tended to be the music of the common people…farmers especially...
Speak, Stone begins with a haunting chant-like melody as the camera of Jacob Richman ’03 pans from an ancient Italian cityscape to a single stone, clothesline and church. Richman’s video, the product of a summer spent researching Sardinian folk singing, is a meditation on harmony. And harmony exists on many levels in the short, pastoral video...
Richman, a senior joint concentrator in music and visual and environmental studies, showcases the Sardinian folk sound. Sung only by men of the town of Bitti, the music is a mixture of throaty and nasal sounds. “It is quite possibly the oldest type of polyphony,” says Richman, who was introduced to the music and was then able to research it directly in Italy through a Radcliffe research grant...
...also provided those in attendance with the tools of improvisational art—100 pounds of clay to play with, folk music and paper tacked to the walls of the gallery. DTG currently has plans to repeat the event in Kirkland and Quincy Houses in the near future...