Ecka sent me an email with this podcast saying that this might help my research with my whole sampling/music recontextualising project I have in mind for next year’s portfolio work.
I listened to the whole podcast which discusses the legacy of Ahmed Abdul Malik and
“his idea of strangeness in jazz and how theory around the history of the form, linking past and future. In this podcast, we hear excerpts from Edward’s talk alongside an interview with pianist Pat Thomas and saxophonist Seymour Wright who discuss the legacy of Abdul-Malik, the history of jazz and its roots in the Islamic communities of West Africa.”
I really enjoyed this podcast and the discussion of jazz as a sharing of knowledge, versions within versions. Taking others’ ideas and adding onto them. Taking others’ sounds and making them their own. Music is a way of knowledge and performing as communication. Jazz and the development within itself as sampling and sharing, the gift of free knowledge.
This does make me consider my own sampling uses, how can I show knowledge through my own work? What am I trying to convey, how am I communicating and how does it come across to the listener?