(via Passing on stories… in remix)
Remix to “The Women of the Great River” by painter Alma Tischler-Wood, UK.
read more at “Passing on Stories…”
“he drank the beer and he died” - title of Alma Tischler Wood’s visual remix and, the lyrics of a Tonga song which Penny Yon introduces to us in clip 43 of the call-out playlist.
the painter Alma Tischler Wood writes about her contribution:
“I created digitally a pattern on the computer whilst listening to THE WOMEN OF THE GREAT RIVER (2) by radio continental drift. I was particularly impressed and amused by the subtle layers and rhythms of No. 43, Penny Yon’s Passing on Stories (…) I will create a painting (perhaps a series of paintings) of the pattern you can see on screen.”
a lyrics like “he drank the beer and he died” would be accompanied by a serial type of music, audio patterns as Penny Yon describes it, whereby drums beat the rhythm and the horns are each playing one note only and yet joining together in a musical pattern and composition - while the players would be at once dancing, sometimes running around, and the whole community being in motion…
a sample of BaTonga “Ngoma bontibe” music can be found on the Mulonga webpage
picture of BaTonga musicians by Marcus C. Diess