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noiseman433

Xenomusic for kids

Dec 06, 2010 23:12

So it looks like I might be giving a Xenomusic workshop for kids at ConGlomeration in Louisville next April.

"What is 'Xenomusic'?" you might ask?

Well, basically, it would be the music of Alien races. Sometimes referred to as "Exomusic" or more plainly "Alien music" or "Extra-Terrestrial music"--it's all the same, really.

Ultimately, the idea, ( Read more... )

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trinker December 7 2010, 05:37:28 UTC

There's a women-in-rock community on DreamWidth you might be interested in peeking at. (It's mostly an impassioned mod feeding the comm daily doses of rockin' women from all over the world.)

noiseman433 December 8 2010, 19:39:47 UTC

I think I have a dreamwidth account--I'll have to check and see if I can find my login info. I'd be interested in peeking at that!

trinker December 8 2010, 20:19:23 UTC

I have the same username at DW. If you browse my reading list, it should be obvious.

noiseman433 December 14 2010, 11:12:17 UTC

Awesome--ok, will check it out soon!

Hello there! vondoolittle December 7 2010, 18:44:53 UTC

That's a fascinating post.

Since I saw you last on livejournal I have got married and had a daughter. She is now two and my husband is a drummer, flautist etc etc and on a Music Leader course in Plymouth. It is really engaging watching her learn about music - different instruments, how they sound and work... She loves to play the piano and the drums and is really rather good already - imaginative and creative though not exactly tuneful.

Am glad to catch up with you :)) I've not been on lj in a while as I'm mostly now on facebook.

Lizzi x

Re: Hello there! noiseman433 December 8 2010, 19:43:12 UTC

Wow lady!

Yeah it has been a while, eh? I've also married since I was more active here.

Hope you're able to successfully nurture your daughter's curiosity (if that is a direction she wants to take)--and good luck with that!!

I'm much more active on facebook--you should PM me your profile--or, you can just friend me at mine: http://www.facebook.com/silpayamanant

You been playing much yourself?

Re: Hello there! vondoolittle December 9 2010, 20:01:04 UTC

I have sent you a friendrequest on Facebook. I'm not really doing much nurturing tbh - she's doing it herself hurrah!! :))

I've not been playing much at all - couldn't with a bump and now I don't seem to find the hours... Hopefully when she's old enough for nursery then I will get more time in to practice myself!!

Re: Hello there! noiseman433 December 14 2010, 11:13:42 UTC

I got it--thanks!

Well, I can understand how much time it takes for the kids. I was glad that, at the end of the day, I left the kids to their parents--! ;)

mythfish December 7 2010, 19:28:49 UTC

As an amateur ethnomusicologist and fan of science fiction, I find the idea of xenomusic fascinating.

One popular theory about the origins of music is that the beating of the human heart provided the first rhythms. True or not, how might an alien species without such an organ arrive at a cultural element that could be called music, and how would it differ from human music?

noiseman433 December 8 2010, 19:47:28 UTC

Yes! That would be Robert Freitas ideas from his Xenology book! He had tons of great things to say--and it's always helpful to have a bit of an evolutionary framework to work in. Those are alot of the issues I'll be touching on as well as just talking about actual attempts at constructing alien music in the literature, television, movies (this will be more of the topic for the Xenomusic panel I'm developing for Conventions).

badger December 8 2010, 02:33:44 UTC

I look forward to more on your work.

noiseman433 December 8 2010, 19:48:16 UTC

Thanks! I'll try to regularly cross post things from my regular blog here in the future!

trinker December 8 2010, 20:20:27 UTC

...or you could create a feed for your blog.