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20 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Just won a banhu (板胡) on an auction. Might have to learn some bangzi tunes now.
I mean, sure I’d love to play Wang Danhong’s “Red Sorghum” (紅高粱) or something, but that ain’t going to happen anytime soon! 🤣

Here’s Shen Cheng (banhu) performing it with the Hsinchu Youth Chinese Orchestra of Taiwan.

Oh, "Red Sorghum" was composed in 2017, and the 80 piece Hsinchu Youth Chinese Orchestra was founded in 2011.

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All these banhu tunes are great fun!

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Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)| Mae Mai Profile picture
18 Jun
I wonder if my music career would have been different if I'd had opportunities like this or an environment that didn't encourage assimilation and hiding of non-white ethnic heritages!

UCLA Summer World Music Intensive Online for High School students
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There are more and more diverse music education programs emerging recently that aren’t so WAM and WPM centric, but these music education ecosystems take time and resources to build.

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This also impacts the diverse music ecosystems of groups since both WAM and WPM are two sides of a colonial paradigm.

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Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)| Mae Mai Profile picture
16 Jun
Reading Dr. Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje's "The (Mis)Representation of African American Music: The Role of the Fiddle" again because it's so good and I can't wait for her book on African American Fiddling to come out.

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And part of that highlighted quote: "rural-based musical traditions continued to be ignored because researchers tended to be music historians who relied almost exclusively on print or sound materials for analyses." rings so true in light of the Decolonizing DAW discussion.
Representation matters, but as Dr. DjeDje says, how that representation happens (and what's excluded) matters especially when we're talking about skills that are invisible to the criteria of traditional music programs like Black fiddling traditions.

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Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)| Mae Mai Profile picture
4 Jun
Got my khaen (แคน) and sueng (ซึง) today!

#ThaiMusicalInstruments #ThaiMusic #Thailand #ซึง #แคน #khaen #sueng #lute #mouthorgan #bambooinstrument #Isan #Lanna
Here's Sombat Simha (สมบัติ สิมหล้า), a khaen master. The khaen is a bamboo mouth organ from the Isan region of Thailand/Laos. Where I'm from.

A number of Western and Western trained composers have written compositions for the khaen, inlcuding Dr. Christopher Adler, who is also an accomplished khaen player. Here's his guide for composing with the khaen.

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Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)| Mae Mai Profile picture
3 Jun
Submitted a draft of “Diversity initiatives in classical music as an extension of colonial power” this week and so feeling this (especially regarding the name/label issue in classical music a while back).

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This one.
Sorry y’all. Everything’s European, right?
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Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)| Mae Mai Profile picture
15 May
While working on my diverse/inclusive cello method books I’ve been thinking about the cello, not as an instrument, but as a cultural instance of a type of instrumental practice embodied in many variations across cultures.

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Western music ecosystems are already familiar with the wide variety of early cello-like instruments (e.g. viol da gamba, baryton, violoncello piccolo) but there have been cello-like instruments outside of the context of classical music and Europe.

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So I’ve been exploring other string traditions and repertoire, in addition to women and composers of color who have been neglected in the West.

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Jon Silpayamanant (โจนาทาน ศิลปยามานันท์)| Mae Mai Profile picture
7 Apr
This can't be emphasized enough, but let's put sound to some of these composers, and the types of groups they compose for, to decenter European composers/instruments. 16 composers from the greater Turkic/Western Asian world.

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Sərdar Fərəcov (b. 1957) Azerbaijani composer

"Rondeletto"
Müjgan Zülfüzadə (left photo)- Tar Soloist
Children and Youth Folk Instruments Orchestra of the Azerbaijan State Children's Philharmonic (right photo)



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Svetlana Apasova (b. 1963) Kazakh composer

"Saryarka XXI"
Academic Folk-Ethnographic Kazakh Orchestra "Otyrar Sazy" (photos below)
Established 1982 Almaty, Kazakhstan
fil.kz/team/afeo_os/?…



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