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Friday, July 29, 2022

A Summery

Musik ist die Fähigkeit des Menschen, Schallwellen mit Bedeutung aufzuladen, sie als Bedeutungsträger zu gestalten, zu nutzen und ihnen Identitätskonkretheit und kulturelle Verbindlichkeit zuzuschreiben. Aufgabe der Musikforschung ist es, sonische Bedeutungsträger in ihrem kulturellen Kontext zu beobachten, zu beschreiben und gegebenenfalls didaktische Vermittlungsentwürfe auf der Basis einfühlender Erfahrungsorientierung anzubieten.

Wenn wir als außenstehende Beobachter*innen Diskurse über Begrifflichkeiten verfolgen, stellen wir zusammenfassend fest, dass das Ringen um eine Erklärung hinsichtlich eines Begriffs erfolglos bleibt. Es zeigt im wesentlichen verschiedene Bedeutungszuweisungen von Menschen, Geisteswissenschaftlern mit ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf bestimmte Termini. Das überrascht nicht, denn die verinselten Gehirne von menschlichen Beobachtern können ja nichts anderes wahrnehmen und beschreiben als das, was sie aufgrund ihrer Sozialisation und Kulturalisierung verinnerlicht haben und sei es mit noch so ausgeprägter, im Wissenschaftsbetrieb erworbener Fähigkeit zu mentaler Distanzierung. Letztlich geht es dann doch wieder um Machtgefüge, einen mehr oder minder sportlich fairen Wettkampf darum, wessen Bedeutungszuschreibung das Zeug hat, sich durchzusetzen. Unternimmt man das mentale Experiment, Machtdominanz wegzudenken, lässt sich eigentlich nur folgern, dass eine Annäherung an einen Begriff aus der Summe der diskursiv motivierten Einzelperspektiven bestehen könnte, die sich mehr oder minder unscharf und in unendlicher Annäherung auf ihn zubewegen.



Music is the human ability to charge sound waves with meaning, to shape them as carriers of meaning, to use them, and to ascribe to them concreteness of identity and cultural commitment. It is the task of music research to observe sonic carriers of meaning in their cultural context, to describe them and, if necessary, to offer didactic mediation designs on the basis of empathetic experience orientation.

When we, as outside observers, follow discourses on terminology, we notice in summary that the struggle for an explanation regarding a term remains unsuccessful. It essentially shows different assignments of meaning by people, humanities scholars with very different perspectives on certain terms. This is not surprising, because the insular brains of human observers cannot perceive and describe anything other than what they have internalized due to their socialization and culturalization, and be it with even the most pronounced ability for mental distancing acquired in the academic field. Ultimately, it is again a matter of power structures, a more or less sportingly fair competition about whose attribution of meaning has what it takes to prevail. If one undertakes the mental experiment of thinking away power dominance, one can actually only conclude that an approach to a concept could consist of the sum of discursively motivated individual perspectives that move toward it in a more or less blurred and infinite approximation.

Friday, January 14, 2022

ulme-mini-verlag

 

The web-presentation of the publishing company ulme-mini-verlag has been updated with security features, a translation option and the removal of flash content.

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Actualised: Uganda Page by Prof. Dr. James Isabirye

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/uganda/uganda.htm

On this page there were some flash-video-files and they have been replaced by the mp4-format.

Now all can be seen on the page itself.



 

Finally restored: Odissi-Temple Dance from East India

During the first 10 years of the 21st century it was an eLearning option to create webpages with PowerPoint. Colleagues might remember that period. It was convenient to create a PowerPoint-presentation and then to convert it to a webpage in one instance. Unfortunately I used that method with some of the modules for EthnoMusicScape and for my seminars with students at the JLU Gießen. Because after a while with the changes in Windows and the formats of the web-content it was outdated and not useable anymore. Step by step I am restoring those modules now and one of them is this nice introduction to the Odissi-temple dance, which is practiced in the region around Calcutta and Odhisha. My colleague Tamara Kurz has collected information, has studied this dance and together we created this educational environment:


 

Saturday, August 8, 2020

eLearning and Music-Education

The following semester-pages have been restored and adapted to Win10 now:
They include educational eLearning-modules created by students of music-education at the University of Giessen (JLU) and can be used for the daily work in schools in the learning-at-stations concept (circular training). An introduction to this didactic concept you can find here: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/erfazirk.pdf (German) and the advices for the circular training on elementary music teaching are given here: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/elementarlehre.htm . All modules refer to the classical Western music background.



Friday, July 31, 2020

KunQu - Southern Opera In China

The page about the Chinese South Opera KunQu is online and all links are working:
https://www.ethnomusicscape.de/kunju.htm .
The material can be didacticized as a modular learning-arrangement with around 10 stations.
Tests at the end are available on the page:

Monday, July 27, 2020

EthnoMusicScape: China

The recent EthnoMusicScape version includes a page titled with "China"; a subtitle is "Chinese Musical Instruments" and leads to this page: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/china_instrumente/chinamusins.htm . The presentations of Chinese traditional musical instruments are exerpts of a TV-production in Taiwan in the 90ies, which were handed over to me by a Chinese friend living in Germany and I made small video-sequences for each instrument and used the didacticized page with learning objective controls, info-texts and video- and audio-examples for seminars at the university. According to the permanent changes of hard- and software plus operating systems I had to adapt the formats and the codecs from time to time. After testing today, the examples should be available for most of the common browsers and can be used for educational purposes. The mindmap for China is by far not complete and the parts presented refer to my own experiences in China or in Chinese communities abroad.



Friday, July 24, 2020

Update for the web-mindmap on Sri Lankan music culture

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/srilanka/page3.htm has been updated with some actual links, concerning the new publication "Sacred Sound - Sakraler Klang" by Martina Claus-Bachmann and also other new links. The change and upload of file-formats, required by win 10, takes a lot of time and energy and can be done step by step only.


Thursday, July 16, 2020

Restored: Drum and Dance Patterns from West Africa

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/gambia.html - Since long time I planned to restore the webpages about African music with excerpts of my own field-impressions in The Gambia. The results are small didacticized webpages which can be used in learning-arrangements for students. Some pages extend the information to African cultures beyond West-Africa and reach to contemporary developments.



Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Sacred Sound - Sakraler Klang

Das Buch "Sacred Sound -Sakraler Klang" von Martina Claus-Bachmann (Autorin und Herausgeberin) wurde jetzt auch im kindle-shop veröffentlicht:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B086MWB7W8/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb .

Die Multimedia-Files sind von einer Webpage abrufbar, s.o.

The book "Sacred Sound" by Martina Claus-Bachmann (author and publisher) has been pblished in the kindle-shop now:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B086MWB7W8/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb

The multimedia-files are available on a webpage.


Monday, September 2, 2019

Obituary

http://www.hirunews.lk/…/professor-carlo-fonseka-and-vetera…
During all the years of my detailed field-studies in Sri Lanka these two persons have had an important influence on my perception of traditional music in the country. I am very grateful to have met them as a kind of advisors, having guided me through the jungle of contemporary performance practice in Sri Lanka.
This year I have really planned to collect all my field recordings on a big harddisk and give a copy to the National Archive and to Piyasara and his wife Kanthi. I am deeply moved about the fact, that Piyasara will not be available anymore. He and his family with Kanthi and Madhavi are on innumerable recordings, which we used to collect in the years from 1997 to 2016 and I hope this archive of Sri Lankan traditional dance and music will contribute to keep the memory of Piyasara's work alive.
Carlo Fonseka helped me, when I was really in trouble in Sri Lanka concerning a stay of one year as a visiting scholar at the former Institute of Aesthetic Studies, where he has been interim-director at that time. He was an open minded person of great wisdom, huge knowledge and deep understanding of humanity and could very well separate the important from the unimportant. I am very happy, that we could publish together a bi-lingual version of the Sama-Jataka in Sinhala/German. His song "raththaran duwe" has been mentioned and analysed in my publications about Sri Lankan music several times.
Both are in their specific way a huge loss for the Sri Lankan society in my eyes and I am sad to know, that their voice will not be heard anymore. In deepest sympathy - Dr. Martina

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/tamaeweb.htm
https://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/sama/pd1011007427.htm
I have created a meditation place on my sim interstellART in Second Life; persons, who want to express their sympathy are invited to come there.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/18/126/1002 .

Saturday, June 29, 2019

MUREL has a FacebookGroup now

What is this group about? Well, MUREL is an acronym for MUsicREsearcheLearning.
MusicResearch and eLearning has been founded longtime ago in 2007 to discuss strategies and didactic outlines how the results of music research can be processed and transmitted to interested people with the help of electronic media. The established disciplines in music research care for the research-part, but are relatively uninterested in the part of transmitting the results, except of publishing them in magazines or monographies or storing them with sophisticated methods in archives. There they sometimes "get moldly" and in extreme cases lost in the darkness of oblivion.
The development of the electronic media in the 20th and 21st century has been like a silent revolution and has shed new light on didactic theories and practice. The question was and still is how to use these new options for educational purposes. The emphasis is on the "HOW" not on the question, whether it is in general useful to use them. For the participants of this group there is no doubt, that the electronic devices are an interesting and attractive chance to create learning arrangements with electronic media for the purpose to transmit and mediate results of music research.
But we want to discuss, how this can happen and exchange examples, where it has already happened sucessfully.
Basis for this discussion is my permanent project EthnoMusicScape, where regional and non regional music-cultural systems and their forms of expression are presented in clearly laid out web presentations together with a didactic line how to use them in educational settings.
In my active years at the university I have worked with students, who were equipped with their own notebook, to create some examples. They had to reflect and document their own research, learning and creation process in a so called portfolio.
I published at that time a small volume about:
http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/docs/pd-1128762041.htm .
Everybody, who is seriously interested in this field and its questions is invited to participate and to contribute.
There might be many more new ideas and possibilities to deal with ethnomusicological research results plus electronic media. I am looking forward to get inspiration!

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Rearranged webpage about the Sri Lankan traditional drum gaetabere

http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/gaetabere.html - If the video-files are not compatible with a browser, there is a download option to view them offline. The content is processed as interactive edutainment for the usage in an educational environment as learning at stations.
See also the sub-page here...


Monday, June 10, 2019

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture

These two contributions of PD Dr. Martina Claus-Bachmann have been published finally and recently in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture:


SAGE Reference - The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture:

presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline

SAGE Reference - Sri Lanka: Modern and Contemporary Performance Practice

SAGE Reference - Buddhism

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

New Arrangement Of EthnoMusicScape

The MUREL-project ethnomusicscape is overhauled completely:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de . The old versions of some webpages did not work anymore because of new hard- and software technologies. In former decades an option has been for web-designers to use PowerPoint-presentations and change them to webpages, but these versions are not valid anymore, so that all the content has to be reorganized, which is a hard and exhausting work, cause ethnomusicscape uses files for all senses, text-, audi-, video-files and pictures of all formats.
But I want to let you know, that nothing is forgotten and most of the pages will reappear in the next time. THere will be an actualized list of finished and adapted projects at:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/map.htm .

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Die Tarogato

Die Webpage von Peter Incze zum traditionellen ungarischen Musikinstrument Tarogato ist wieder online =>
http://www.kuveni.de/tarogatoraetsel.htm und zwar in einem kompakten Format, als HotPotato-Modul mit Info, Visualisierung und Kreuzworträtsel, also als Infotainment:
The webpage of Peter Incze concerning the traditional Hungarian instrument tarogato is online again as an infotainment-page:


Tuesday, February 20, 2018

CyberArt and CyberCulture


In the last months I prepared 11 web-pages as a kind of lecture concerning the topics cyber-art and cyber-cultures. I have been asked for a demonstration at a university in Sri Lanka. According to my 10 years of experience as an artist, curator and gallery owner in the virtual environment of Second Life and OS I concluded here my experiences and considerations on the topic and enhanced the presentation with examples and self-made movies to demonstrate practically, what tools the virtual worlds offer for the purpose to create art. An analysis concerning the role of music in cyber-culture will follow: 
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/cyber/CyberArt.htm .