by ibarakishi » Sun Nov 26, 2017 12:30 pm
$harkToootth wrote:Thanks for posting Ibarakishi!!! I don't know if I'm watching the wrong videos but I hear a lot of links between American Bluegrass and this instrument! Crazy!!! I love Eastern Tradition instruments because of {what I perceive as) dissonance. 'Wow that sounds dissonant!" when in reality, it's that culture's version of a folk song
no problem haha. I understand what you mean, but i think that is only true in the more commercial or 'country' style of playing over here. Once you get into really local songs and more traditional things, it becomes more and more distant from anything close to Bluegrass. Especially once you listen to actual religious ceremonies using these instruments too. For me, that is kind of the abstract end point of these instruments, which is kind of the opposite for Christianity and how the church used/uses music.
I understand what you mean about dissonant sound too. It is interesting to me, because if you talk to the really old generation here, they think that western pop music sounds like dissonance to them haha. I think for me personally, the 7TET system and 12TET of europe is not strange or dissonant really. But the further up you go in this system, like 24TET or something extreme like that, the closer you approach just natural noise that you would find in nature. Which at that point, i guess why not just use field recordings of nature itself? haha
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