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@yaxu@post.lurk.org
2026-04-26 07:38:25

This from Stockhausen is remarkable in a couple of ways.. First it closes his book and clearly he felt it was important, but as far as I know 'social dancing' is completely absent from computer music/electroacoustic education institutions that otherwise laud Stockhausen. Secondly for the subtle dogwhistling - e.g. dance music from African continent and diaspora is first slated and then ignored.

And then, finally, I would recommend that every student of music go dancing at least once a week. And dance. Please, really dance: three or four hours a week. Any dance, whatever is going at the discotheque or dance spot, though discos tend to become monotonous. Different dances, you should dance with a partner, and to different rhythms and tempi: slow, medium, fast and in different rhythms based on two, three or four beats. Make your own evenings with tapes of folk dances: Austrian, Spanish, H…
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-16 19:11:21

"This song is called tepsije and is sung by women as one of them spins a copper tray. The tray is spun on its edge on a tabletop. The women sing, taking their rhythm from the tapping of the ring on the spinners finger against the spinning tray.
This song is not the exclusive property of Albanians living in Kosovo; it is known to Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Church members, and Moslems in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia.
The song is often performed as a ceremonial so…

1975 recording

From JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance : Europe 3