Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
have blog :: will travel
today's musicians are rediscovering 'tune books', small manuscript books of music that were in use from the late-17th to the mid-19th century.
They are now sharing them, in the way that musicians always have, but nowadays online, so that all over the world, people are playing these tunes once again in an ongoing global virtual session.
ABC, the brilliant smart thing done with stupid technology that illuminates the globally networked world of traditional music players by carrying the melodic DNA of your ancestors. I'd like to say abc is the finger in the face of the RIAA and pop-culture copyright oppression, but suffice it to say that here, in the tunebooks freely traded for millenia, here is where you will find a suprising number of those old familiar but catchy melodies now usurped and repurposed by the less scrupulous. But it's ok, as Pete Seeger once said, "We were here long before commercial 'Pop' music, and we will be here long after they are forgotten and in this generation, our musical heritage vehicles of survival are fueled by Walshaw's humble abc.
The show features interviews with Chris Walshaw, inventor of abc, and members of the Village Music Project team and is presented by singer and musician, Tim van Eyken.
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
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