David Holt's Kinda Music

A series of clips from Folkways, an American TV Show that multi-instrumentalist and old-time country/blues/folk music enthusiast David Holt used to run. The clips present various well known names from the hayday of those musical styles in order to commemorate their contribution to music. I've included here just one's of some slightly more unusual examples of musician's and their instruments in an effort to illustrate that Human's can make music and have fun with almost any thing. I'd suggest that we've been doing so in one form or another for a probably surprising amount of time and will continue to do so indefinitely. From a couple of old bones to emerging DMI controllers taking advantage of the most advanced digital synthesis algorithms available today.

Washboard Bill's Washboard and David Holt playing spoons

Percy Danforth playing bones and David Holt on Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica and paper bag (!)

David Holt playing a whole bunch of instruments from guitars to his own body. Of particular relevance is the Electric Pajamas presented last. This last piece although some thing of a novelty really reminded me of my thinking that the development new age digital music and instruments needs to be guided by our own physical and emotional (not technological) connection with the music. This is some thing that I'm striving to keep in mind and why I'm becoming so interested in topics concerning DMI haptic design and vibrotactile feedback amongst other DMI design principles relating to the connection between the musician and the resulting sound.