Sounds of the Neanderthals

[tamaranth]

Welsh jazz composer creates 75-minute 'soundscape', exploring what Neanderthal music might've sounded like. (No metal, heavy or otherwise: different vocal anatomy: different animal-sounds.)

"It's a ridiculous notion to suggest we could ever know the precise role that music played in the lives of the Neanderthals, but imagining it has been a fascinating experience."

Interview with Simon Thorne about the 'Sounds of the Neanderthals' project

Simon Thorne's Myspace page, including a sample from the piece

According to the BBC, the British Museum are 'very interested' in staging a performance in London: which is excellent news, as so far all scheduled live performances are in Wales.

Comments

[dharma-slut.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this! I'm listening to his mypage stuff right now.

It's jazz chamber music!

[childeric.livejournal.com]

Fiona has Steve Mithen's Singing Neanderthals book on her to-read shelf right now (Christmas present from me!). Once she's done with it, then I suspect I might go and have a look at it too!

[headgardener.livejournal.com]

WE had to leave Cardiff yesterday evening just when the Singing Neanderthals performance was scheduled, so glad ot hear the BM (or NMH?) is looking at bringing it to London. JN or I will post about why we were in Caerdydd, but it involved a Steven Mithen lecture on a site he's been excavating in the Middle East, from just as the Neolithic was emerging from the Mesolithic.

I read his the Singing Neanderthals last year (and noted it on my LJ) It is well worth perusal.