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:

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.

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!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/764752597312691/ .

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:

Chinese Musical Instruments

The webpage Chinese Musical Instruments for EthnoMusicScape/MUREL has been processed completely and has been republished today with video-, audio-files, and tests. The access to the virtual environment can be found here:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/murel/second_life.htm .

MUREL and EthnoMusicScape as Virtual Nomads

New virtual space for MUREL and EthnoMusicScape:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nice%20Atoll/169/155/2502 - always actualized on this webpage: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/murel/second_life.htm .

New Entry-Page for EthnoMusicScape

The entry-page for ethnomusicscape has been simplified and revised:

We hope it will provide a better orientation and a faster access to the area of interest.

September and October Work on MUREL

The islands of the Seychelles: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/seychellen/seychellen.htm  

and of Mauritius: http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/mauritius-Dateien/mauritius.htm

are the next revised ethnomusicological modules of the online-platform EthnoMusicScape and in the virtual world of Second Life: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/112/102/22.

MUREL is back!

After a long sleep the MUREL-Blog will be reactivated from now. 
The main intention is to comment the new concept of the project EthnoMusicScape. This concept has the focus to extend the documentation of music styles and cultures not only on web-pages but also in a 3D-environment of a virtual reality like Second Life or OS. All webpages of EthnoMusicScape will be re-processed in the next time and get a link to an immersive interactive virtual scenery.
The first finished ones are:

- Music in Afghanistan and

- Music of the Maldives:

The virtual scenery can be visited here:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/122/93/22 .
With clicking on a rezzer-box, the scenery will appear and can be explored. Links guide the visitor back to the webpage for further information.
Of course requires a participation in a virtual world an account and the creation of an avatar as well as the download and installation of a viewer-software. 

Two New Publications

Ulme-mini-verlag has published two new pocket books with additional CD-ROM. One in the edu-/infotainment section with the title "Zerstöre niemals ein Vogelnest" (Never Destroy a Birdnest). It contains bilingual poems (German/Dari) of the Afghan poet Ahmad Zia Hadi: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/edutainment.html.

The other book has academic content and focuses on the topic "Music between Virtuality and Materiality".

Five articles written by Klaus Martius, James Isabirye and Martina Claus-Bachmann try to approach the topic from different angles, from the perspective of conservational work in museums, from the subculture Steampunk, from the music instrument tube fiddle in Uganda, from music in Afghanistan and experiments to create eLearning environment for the Indonesian Gamelan in the virtuality: http://www.ulme-mini-verlag.de/bookshop/akademische_medienkombinationen.html.

Handtaschenbücher: Kleines Format – Viel Inhalt

Wer viel in Bus und Bahn unterwegs ist weiß, wie schnell man sich langweilen kann. Lesen schafft hier sofort Abhilfe. Allerdings hat nicht jeder die Zeit, sich in ganze Romane zu vertiefen, zumal wenn die Fahrt mit dem Bus vielleicht nur über ein paar Stationen verläuft. Hier bietet der ulme-mini-verlag ein ganz neues Konzept an: das Handtaschenbuch. Mit seinem quadratischen Miniformat von 14x14 cm passt es hervorragend in jede Handtasche oder in die etwas größeren Innentaschen von Sakkos und Jacken. Ein Buch, das man immer bequem bei sich tragen kann. Aus den Bereichen Kunst und anspruchsvolle Gegenwartsliteratur, aber auch Kurzgeschichten und Kindererzählungen findet der Leser teilweise in zweisprachigem Format Lesestoff, der sowohl kurzweilige Unterhaltung bietet, als auch auf hohem Niveau gestaltet ist. Vor allem die bilinguale Aufmachung mancher Ausgaben lässt den Leser in eine andere Kultur eintauchen, wie das Beispiel des Gedichtbändchens der indonesischen Gegenwartsautorin Dorothea Rosa Herliany zeigt, das sowohl in deutscher Übersetzung, wie auch in Bahasa Indonesia herausgegeben wurde. Die bilingualen Ausgaben können allerdings noch mehr: Vermitteln sie dem Leser angesichts exotischer Sprachen vornehmlich einen Einblick in die andere Kultur, unterstützen die bilingualen Exemplare in Deutsch-Englisch aktiv den Fremdsprachlernprozess. Bereits während des Lesens wird das Sprachzentrum positiv beeinflusst.

Das besondere Highlight der ulme-mini-verlag - Handtaschenbücher ist zweifelsohne die Zugabe einer multimedialen CD-ROM für den heimischen PC oder sogleich für den mitgenommenen Laptop auf Reisen. Jede CD-ROM ist inhaltlich auf das Handtaschenbuch abgestimmt und bietet viele ergänzende Informationen. So erfährt der Leser beispielsweise Hintergrundinformationen zum jeweiligen Autor, zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Werkes, und erhält viele beigefügte Kunstwerke, die das Buch inhaltlich optimal ergänzen. Das Wintermärchen vom „Eisbären und dem Weihnachtsstern“ bietet auf seiner CD-ROM viele Spiele wie Puzzles und Memorys rund um das Thema „Eisbären und ihr Lebensraum“, so dass Kinder spannend und kurzweilig unterhalten werden und dabei noch Wertvolles über die Welt lernen können. Lesen, sehen, hören, lernen – ein interaktives Medium.

Das ulme-mini-verlags-Konzept vom Handtaschenbuch geht voll auf: Hier werden dem Leser kurzweilige, anspruchsvolle Informationen geboten, die, durch multimediale Inhalte ergänzt, zu einem komprimierten Mix aus Wissen und Unterhaltung werden. Künftig brauchen sich Menschen selbst auf kurzen Fahrten im öffentlichen Personenverkehr nicht mehr langweilen, sondern können die Kürze der Zeit nutzen, ihr Gehirn dank des Handtaschenbuch-Konzepts optimal zu beschäftigen. Die einen schwören auf Gehirnjogging, die anderen nehmen die positiven Effekte nebenbei mit, wenn sie ihrem Gehirn mit einem Handtaschenbuch den ideal aufbereiteten Appetitanreger bieten.

Call still open! Please participate!

http://www.kuveni.de/murel/running.htm

The StudyGroup MUREL (MUsicResearch&ELearning) is still calling for articles for the new publication: "SoundGenerators - FieldResearch between Materiality and Virtuality". The language can be English or German. Please contact: musicresearchelearning@googlemail.com or igdskdv@yahoo.com.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our Members and Friends!

Hello dear members and guests, welcome to the Blog of the study group MUsicREsearch and eLearning (MUREL). Welcome U.U.P. and James! I have installed a time zone panel for your orientation and the chat software Google-Talk; if you install that on your home computer and additional a Google-email-account (free!), we can meet online for a chat! Please use the Blog for entrances and informations for the other members (also only available for people with Googlemail-account)! I hope after a time everybody will have found the way to this blog-site...Please use English cause our group is international...