Musicking
For some years I have been involved in a fascinating and rewarding music project that has resulted in a book and three CDs. My role has been as a musician and arranger of many of the songs. The project centres around the unusual song source Samuel Hellen (1813–1892), who sang forty songs for the folk…
I Novgorod, during the Slovisha festival in August my jew’s harp fellow reseacher Aksenti Beskrovny (Moscow) made an interview with me. I talked about my research – mainly about my work with jew’s harps – but also some other things. I play as well, with Aksenty and Anton Kamenskiy. In addition, Aksenty published the sound…
I spend a few late summer days in Austria, at the conference Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy, organized by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and located at Hotel Marienhof, Reichenau and der Rax, southwest of Vienna. I participate with a paper about the green music movement in Norway in the 1970s, linked to…