Vox Vulgaris
@voxvulgaris.bsky.social
The Shape of Medieval Music to Come
Early Music for Late Humanity
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-music-for-late-humanity
Early Music for Late Humanity
https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-music-for-late-humanity
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It’s true that medieval people were very ignorant compared to us today. For instance, they would panic over mysterious apparitions in the sky, or believe that a strongman leader was blessed by God.
December 15, 2024 at 9:43 PM
It’s true that medieval people were very ignorant compared to us today. For instance, they would panic over mysterious apparitions in the sky, or believe that a strongman leader was blessed by God.
This text includes a bold theory on folk music: "How many songs are not just musicians trying and failing to remember something they have heard anyway? /.../something that happens when you go diddely-doodely up and down a bagpipe /... / some QWERTY and a little bit of ASDFGH on a bagpipe."
The liner notes to "Music for the Children of Gothenburg" tells the story of our early years, from the first meeting in a jail exercise yard. It also talks about originality, composition, tradition and how the limitations of instruments influence these.
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
Music for the Children of Gothenburg, by Vox Vulgaris
5 track album
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:03 AM
This text includes a bold theory on folk music: "How many songs are not just musicians trying and failing to remember something they have heard anyway? /.../something that happens when you go diddely-doodely up and down a bagpipe /... / some QWERTY and a little bit of ASDFGH on a bagpipe."
In the Middle Ages the westernmost part of Europe was Arabic - yet we call it "The Orient". Arabs were in Iberia for 800 years - yet we call it an "occupation". We call their decline a "Reconquista" - yet the preceding rulers were Visigoth and had only been Catholic for 100 years.
December 8, 2024 at 10:48 PM
In the Middle Ages the westernmost part of Europe was Arabic - yet we call it "The Orient". Arabs were in Iberia for 800 years - yet we call it an "occupation". We call their decline a "Reconquista" - yet the preceding rulers were Visigoth and had only been Catholic for 100 years.
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If you want to get an idea of how old Damascus is: when its river basin was first settled the city I'm currently in (Stockholm) was still buried under glaciers from the ice age.
December 8, 2024 at 6:07 AM
If you want to get an idea of how old Damascus is: when its river basin was first settled the city I'm currently in (Stockholm) was still buried under glaciers from the ice age.
This will be a thread about our new album Early Music for Late Humanity with a few words about each track. If you are interested in our ideas behind the album as a whole (groove, progress and late humanity) read the liner notes on Bandcamp:
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
Early Music for Late Humanity, by Vox Vulgaris
9 track album
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2024 at 10:03 PM
This will be a thread about our new album Early Music for Late Humanity with a few words about each track. If you are interested in our ideas behind the album as a whole (groove, progress and late humanity) read the liner notes on Bandcamp:
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
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Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe.
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
Early Black Musicians, Composers, and Music Scholars (505-1505 CE)
While musing about how exclusion of Blacks is built into music academia as a colonial driven knowledge system, I (as usual) posted those thoughts to a twitter thread It was obviously not my first. …
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December 6, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Black musicians, composers, music scholars predated the Renaissance and, not surprisingly, existed outside of the Western world. Let’s stop pretending composition, musicology, and music theory only existed in Europe.
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
silpayamanant.wordpress.com/bmc_505-1505/
If you have thought about buying our new album, today is a godd day since it is bandcamp Friday. voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
Early Music for Late Humanity, by Vox Vulgaris
9 track album
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:22 PM
If you have thought about buying our new album, today is a godd day since it is bandcamp Friday. voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
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I'm happy people are keeping traditional crafts like artisanal blocking alive.
December 4, 2024 at 9:37 PM
I'm happy people are keeping traditional crafts like artisanal blocking alive.
Listen to our brand new album
"In modern times the shawms and loud trumpets generally banish the sober fiddles from the feasts, and the young girls dance eagerly to the loud noise, like hinds, shaking their buttocks womanishly and rudely."
Conrad von Megenberg 1349
open.spotify.com/album/4TOLD5...
"In modern times the shawms and loud trumpets generally banish the sober fiddles from the feasts, and the young girls dance eagerly to the loud noise, like hinds, shaking their buttocks womanishly and rudely."
Conrad von Megenberg 1349
open.spotify.com/album/4TOLD5...
Early Music for Late Humanity
Vox Vulgaris · Album · 2024 · 9 songs
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Listen to our brand new album
"In modern times the shawms and loud trumpets generally banish the sober fiddles from the feasts, and the young girls dance eagerly to the loud noise, like hinds, shaking their buttocks womanishly and rudely."
Conrad von Megenberg 1349
open.spotify.com/album/4TOLD5...
"In modern times the shawms and loud trumpets generally banish the sober fiddles from the feasts, and the young girls dance eagerly to the loud noise, like hinds, shaking their buttocks womanishly and rudely."
Conrad von Megenberg 1349
open.spotify.com/album/4TOLD5...
Short clip from our release party yesterday
November 29, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Short clip from our release party yesterday
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it's true, drake and kendrick are indeed engaging in a troubadour-like homosocial exchange of wits. in 800 years scholars will theorize that they were in love.
A rap battle is two men writing poems about each other
November 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
it's true, drake and kendrick are indeed engaging in a troubadour-like homosocial exchange of wits. in 800 years scholars will theorize that they were in love.
Today @rsmsflschr.bsky.social from Vox Vulgaris and our producer Clea Herlöfsson will talk about medieval music in Swedish public service radio channel P3
sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/2488...
sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/2488...
P3 med Samir Yosufi - P3 med
P3-profiler guidar dig genom den bästa musiken.
sverigesradio.se
November 26, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Today @rsmsflschr.bsky.social from Vox Vulgaris and our producer Clea Herlöfsson will talk about medieval music in Swedish public service radio channel P3
sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/2488...
sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/2488...
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THEY DOXXED EA-NĀṢIR
Ea-nāṣir lived in n. 1 Old Street (this is a modern name completely fabricated by Sir Leonard Wooley, the excavator at the time) of area AH. This home was finely built and stood with an area of 110 m2, an average home in this neighborhood being about 70 m2.
November 23, 2024 at 7:26 PM
THEY DOXXED EA-NĀṢIR
"looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open /... /Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet."
November 25, 2024 at 12:53 PM
"looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open /... /Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet."
Release party for "Early Music for Late Humanity" now on Thursday nov 28 - Sjätte Tunnan in Stockholm. Vox Vulgaris will play a few songs from the album and there will be DJ sets by DJ Clea and Mount Liberation Unlimited
www.facebook.com/events/41931...
ra.co/events/2049857
www.facebook.com/events/41931...
ra.co/events/2049857
November 25, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Release party for "Early Music for Late Humanity" now on Thursday nov 28 - Sjätte Tunnan in Stockholm. Vox Vulgaris will play a few songs from the album and there will be DJ sets by DJ Clea and Mount Liberation Unlimited
www.facebook.com/events/41931...
ra.co/events/2049857
www.facebook.com/events/41931...
ra.co/events/2049857
Gnocchi seauton - knödledge of oneself
November 25, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Gnocchi seauton - knödledge of oneself
Join our free listening party to get a preview of our upcoming release "Early Music for Late Humanity" and chat with members of Vox Vulgaris. It starts in less than half an hour (22.00 CET) but you can already join.
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/merch/pre-li...
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/merch/pre-li...
Pre-listening party: Early Music for Late Humanity
Listening Party from Vox Vulgaris.
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Join our free listening party to get a preview of our upcoming release "Early Music for Late Humanity" and chat with members of Vox Vulgaris. It starts in less than half an hour (22.00 CET) but you can already join.
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/merch/pre-li...
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/merch/pre-li...
The Middle Ages - when men were men and women were women but they basically had the same clothing and hair styles.
November 24, 2024 at 1:37 PM
The Middle Ages - when men were men and women were women but they basically had the same clothing and hair styles.
Early Music is always a question of interpretation. We in Vox Vulgaris have chosen this medieval proverb to guide us:
“The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.”
– Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi, Mesnavi 5:3125
“The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.”
– Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi, Mesnavi 5:3125
November 24, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Early Music is always a question of interpretation. We in Vox Vulgaris have chosen this medieval proverb to guide us:
“The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.”
– Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi, Mesnavi 5:3125
“The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.”
– Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi, Mesnavi 5:3125
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A haunting piece about reconstructed prehistoric homes that have been abandoned and are themselves now becoming archaeology: 'Fragments of material culture ... are slowly becoming archaeology within the interior: this time we can witness the end of a prehistory.'
An old blog post The End of Prehistory gives a sense of the decline of this heritage centre.
heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/e...
#Archaeology #ArchScot
heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/e...
#Archaeology #ArchScot
The End of Prehistory
Three times I have been to this place, I should have been more… The first time was in 1994 to take part in excavations on the site before the Archaeolink Prehistory Park was built. The secon…
heritagelandscapecreativity.wordpress.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:05 AM
A haunting piece about reconstructed prehistoric homes that have been abandoned and are themselves now becoming archaeology: 'Fragments of material culture ... are slowly becoming archaeology within the interior: this time we can witness the end of a prehistory.'
In Bosch's Hell the shawm acts as a visual "bridge" between the different scales - next to the humans it looks like a bass shawm, next to the oversized instruments it looks like a soprano shawm. It is the only thing in the painting that always is to scale.
November 22, 2024 at 9:34 AM
In Bosch's Hell the shawm acts as a visual "bridge" between the different scales - next to the humans it looks like a bass shawm, next to the oversized instruments it looks like a soprano shawm. It is the only thing in the painting that always is to scale.
Nov 29 Vox Vulgaris will release "Early Music For Late Humanity" - their first studio album in 20 years. Presave here:
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
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Early Music for Late Humanity, by Vox Vulgaris
9 track album
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Nov 29 Vox Vulgaris will release "Early Music For Late Humanity" - their first studio album in 20 years. Presave here:
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-...
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...
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When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses.
But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.
But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.
November 8, 2024 at 12:19 PM
When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses.
But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.
But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.
It's not an echo chamber - it's a soft reverb
November 17, 2024 at 1:55 PM
It's not an echo chamber - it's a soft reverb
The new drama series "The Pirate Bay" from Swedish SVT has the actor portraying Vox Vulgaris member Rasmus holding a concert flute. This is appalling slander: Rasmus has never even touched a concert flute. Possibly a baroque traverse flute once in his youth but he never exhaled.
November 17, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The new drama series "The Pirate Bay" from Swedish SVT has the actor portraying Vox Vulgaris member Rasmus holding a concert flute. This is appalling slander: Rasmus has never even touched a concert flute. Possibly a baroque traverse flute once in his youth but he never exhaled.