Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tanya Tagaq and the Kronos Quartet

Three days in Whitehorse ,Yukon . No musical score. Colours of sound. A relationship to the Arctic.

Listen to how Tanya explains her environment to fellow musicians. How many of us can relate so intimately to the sounds in our environment ? The musical artists of The Kronos Quartet did a magnificent job using their strings to imitate the sounds and feelings of Tanya's instrument- her throat and her world .

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting to learn about a kind of music that isn't heard by many other places in the world.

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  2. The Mongolian throat singing is similar but lower in sounds. However the similarity of the music certainly is a living link which supports the land bridge theory for Inuit/Eskimo peoples for sure.

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