KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Trance and Ritual Music: by Annea Lockwood, Program 7

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA/BBC

Identifier

TR.1970.06.11.c1

Program Series

Trance and Ritual Music

Program Length

20 min

Dates

1973-05-16 | broadcast
| 1969-08-14 | created
| 1970-06-11 | broadcast

Description

“Jaw’s harps, flutes, are the universal and ancient instruments, or, no, the body is the universal instrument; our original instrument. It’s a strange experience to sit entirely still in an empty silent room. You gradually become aware that the sounds within your body are deafening, a cataract of throbbing, humming, continuous sound. The most insistent and the most protected is your heart. It begins with the heart.”

Genres

Field recordings
World music

Musical Selections

Human heart beat -- Afghan Battle rhythm on drums -- Indian tantric drum rhythm -- Indian friction drum -- French West African Chieftain’s drums -- Baluchistan dance song -- Malayan big drum and birds -- Israeli Doira drums -- Ceylonese royal court drumming -- Beating of Kertok, Malaya -- Ceylonese kandyan drumming -- Nigerian master drumming -- Nigerian Ju Ju ceremony -- Human heart beat

Subjects

World music
Field recordings

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.