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I’m happy to report that tomorrow<\/s> today I’m headed to Mexico City yet again. At this rate, I’ve been telling people, I expect to be relocating there permanently sometime in mid-October. I joke, but I do feel like the place keeps calling me. <\/p>\n
This time around my excuse is a lecture-demo I’ll be giving at a weeklong tech-crunchy event called Campus Party<\/a> (#cpmexico<\/a>), where I’m joining some fine company in the musical part of the program<\/a>. On Friday at 2:30pm, I’ll be refreshing an oldie-but-goodie grine o’ mine: performing ethnomusicology in the digital age<\/a>, aka mashup pedagogy<\/a>, aka — for this especial occasion — etnomusicolog\u00eda a lo digital<\/em>. <\/p>\n Cue GOOGLY espa\u00f1ol: <\/p>\n Si escribir sobre m\u00fasica es, como algunos han propuesto, el equivalente a bailar acerca de la arquitectura, tal vez “musicar” sobre la m\u00fasica ofrece una manera m\u00e1s directa de contar historias, definir relaciones, y enfocarse en caracter\u00edsticas particulares. Incluso si no es exactamente m\u00e1s directo, tal enfoque ofrece modos ricos y evocadores de an\u00e1lisis y comunicaci\u00f3n sobre m\u00fasica. Desde el mashup a la mezcla, el software contempor\u00e1neo de audio permite plantear preguntas sobre las obras musicales a trav\u00e9s de la yuxtaposici\u00f3n vertical y horizontal, mientras que un procedimiento tan simple como la disminuir la velocidad de algo puede ofrecer inimaginables formas de escuchar y entender. En esta conferencia-demostraci\u00f3n se ofrecen algunas t\u00e9cnicas y ejemplos del uso de software de producci\u00f3n digital para contar historias sobre la m\u00fasica y la cultura.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I want to thank Eric Gamboa<\/a> (aka Elebleu<\/a>) for extending the invitation. Along with Majadero<\/a> (aka Lauro Robles<\/a>), who knows the form<\/a> (and has been ustreaming<\/a> it up), we’ve been plotting to perhaps do another little session at some point in the next few days — more like a live mashup clustermix than anything vaguely academic. <\/p>\n When I was last in town I had the pleasure of sharing a bill with Majadero, the first guy I’ve seen wield an iPad in the DJ booth. What was wild was that this was the second time I’d shared a bill with him (the time before was last November<\/a>). What was crazier still was that I realized back in November, while talking to him, that I had been playing his&crew’s leftfield dub tracks in my Beat Research<\/a> sets for a couple years already (having stumbled upon them looking for “Mexican dubstep” or something like that). All of these encounters happened independent of Lauro and I ever being directly in touch. Mexico City is a huge place, but it sure can feel like a small world sometimes.<\/p>\n Also, apropos of nothing but my own vanity, I want to take the opportunity to thank Eric again, a bit belatedly, for taking some of the coolest photos of me<\/a>, like, ever. <\/p>\n![\"iPad](\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4044\/4703735334_b2c8c8f5ac.jpg\")
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