This website is an ethnomusicology goldmine! Great work from someone who seems to be doing it out of passion. I've been reading/listening through it and my favorite so far is the piece on Papuan highland Wisisi: https://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/wisisi
Sing me a song, Mr. Kalason man. Sing me a song on a bus. We'll miss all of those pure-ish tone melodies. Driving your competitors nuts.
That was an interesting read. There is a movie called RV, and in that movie there is an RV with a kalason type select-a-melody horn installed. I'm glad we don't have these distractions in our vehicles, but they would surely be a fun diversion while stuck in traffic. Can you imagine the cacophony of a congested California freeway, with each vehicle belting out their own melodies on their own kalason? I can. No thank you. But, to dream...
If you find this music interesting, check out the Frozen Brass compilations.
This one is of mostly Southeast Asia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtmbrcQNWCc
The mess of pipes, the minibar, ...
That one vehicle has more personality and charm than every vehicle and building in my immediate vicinity put together.
This website is an ethnomusicology goldmine! Great work from someone who seems to be doing it out of passion. I've been reading/listening through it and my favorite so far is the piece on Papuan highland Wisisi: https://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/wisisi
The modern evolution of this lives long on the bus around Indonesia, in the form of telolet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_Telolet_Om
Sing me a song, Mr. Kalason man. Sing me a song on a bus. We'll miss all of those pure-ish tone melodies. Driving your competitors nuts.
That was an interesting read. There is a movie called RV, and in that movie there is an RV with a kalason type select-a-melody horn installed. I'm glad we don't have these distractions in our vehicles, but they would surely be a fun diversion while stuck in traffic. Can you imagine the cacophony of a congested California freeway, with each vehicle belting out their own melodies on their own kalason? I can. No thank you. But, to dream...
was disappointed there was no bus. and he only knows one song and it's really long.