News of the Weird should now do a follow-up piece on those of us who are
intrigued by this enough to seek it out.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Static Beats [mailto:static@staticbeats.com]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 5:09 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: [idm] Elephant Music
From "News of the Weird .674"
" The debut CD from the Thai Elephant Orchestra (Lampang, Thailand) was
scheduled for December release, featuring six pachyderm prodigies playing
crude versions of traditional instruments (drum, gong, bass, xylophone) and
recorded intact, without overdubbing, to create music that (in the words of
a New York Times writer) "strike(s) some Western listeners as haunting,
others as monotonous." The CD's American producers, pointing to much
academic research on elephants' natural musical abilities, said they plan a
second album ("easy-listening," engineered, they said, to make it more
accessible to a wider audience). "
hmmmm.....
Shimone
http://www.staticbeats.com
Electronic Music For The Mind
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