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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreI 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…
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