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.

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.

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...

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 .

Chinese Music Culture - The Kun Opera

Another module and eLearning-ennvironment has been finished on EthnoMusicScape and it introduces the Chinese Kun opera:

BiAka, Baka, Aka - Pygmees and their Music

The webpage contains two links to specialists for the pygmy-cultures and their web-presentation:
http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/biaka.htm .

Uganda Refreshed

After changing the provider the Uganda-page has been uploaded again and is available from now:

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

A virtual scenery is under construction.

The change of the provider will cause some missing pages in the near future due to a refreshment of the content. Step by step the pages will be uploaded again. Patience please.

Music on the Island of Rodrigues

A new Web-Module for EthnoMusicScape is available:

Reunion and its Music

is the next provided Webpage by EthnoMusicScape and refers especially to the Maloya:

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. 

Update of the EthnoMusicScape-Page on Uganda

Please have a look at the newly created and updated page on music cultures in Uganda, created in cooperation with our member James Isabirye: http://www.kuveni.de/uganda/uganda.htm .

EthnoMusicScape neu!

Dear members, friends and interested persons, the eLearning web-basis of our study group http://www.ethnomusicscape.de/ has got a new shape/scape and provides some useful webgadgets for the daily work, like translating, library-search and music search functions. The general presentation as a mindmap structure has been retained, although the common sense to create pages seems to angle off, using a horizontal and a vertical frame and a linear structure opposite to all educational research results of challenging the brain with non-linear structures like mindmaps to appeal both brain parts, the left and the right one in a balanced way. This idea is suitable to the internet structure in general, because a complex network is never linear... but that does not mean, that it is chaotic, it is only not linear...there is a difference and at last: the chaos produces creativity - isn't it?