SIBE Conference

From SIBE 08

SIBE Conference, Thu 6-Sun 9 Mar
Salamanca

A few snaps from the SIBE Conference. And the 'official' SIBE photoset - although I don't seem to feature on any of them. I was there, honest.

Mayalde

Sat 8 Mar
Conservatorio Superior de Música, Salamanca

Kitchen percussion taken to the limit - every conceivable household implement struck, stroked, spun, shaken, swung, tinkled, blown, pinged, plucked. They did cheat a couple of times and played an accordeon. All making the important point that that's what people used to do when they didn't have instruments.

Here's a slideshow from the concert with music clips from their latest CD (downloaded from their web-site):



- and an album of the same photos (much better quality images, but no music).

La Identidad (3)

And here it is in all its glory, via:

Keynote (Mac) > Powerpoint > iSpring (Windows) > slideboom.com > Blogger

The iSpring > slideboom combination is the only route I have come across that can post a Powerpoint file online with all embedded audio and video clips playing 'on click' - for free. The visual quality and the functionality are far superior to the video version I posted to TeacherTube. And I've somehow managed to embed it here - I hope I'll be able to remember how!

Many, many issues at each stage of the process, I'll outline some of the solutions I found in a later post. On the way I have had to update to Parallels 3 (fortunately via a free offer), buy MS Office 2007 (£7.50 via institutional licence), install iSpring Free (free) and sign up to slideboom.com (free).

La identidad en la música popular española

Thu 6 - Sun 9 Mar
Salamanca

Congreso de la SIBE - Sociedad de Etnomusicología

Four days in Salamanca for the Spanish Ethnomusicological Society's conference. A fascinating event which allowed me to indulge two of my passions simultaneously. Lots of interesting stuff which I'll attempt to keep up with here over the coming days. Here's a version of the presentation I used for my comunicación, complete with music clips, which functions more or less as the original Keynote I used at the conference.

I'll discuss elsewhere the technical issues involved in a) preparing the original presentation and b) converting it to display and download here. Labyrinthine.

Also up now are:

• Mayalde: slideshow from their concert with music clips, and photos
• Javier Paxariño: jam session at the Savor - slideshow with recording, photos
• photos of Salamanca and the SIBE Conference
  

I'd originally prepared my contribution in English, but when I got there I found that, although the conference was billed as a joint event with a UK group and an international association, the English-speaking contingent was much smaller than anticipated, so I rewrote the presentation and delivered it en español.

There wasn't much football, which was disappointing ;-) - all I managed was a chat with a waiter - though I did read in the local paper about a youth arrangement UD Salamanca have with Arsenal. It was a music conference, I suppose.