The 13th Tribe - Ping-pong Anthropology

Imagine a game of precision table-tennis, where a complementary balance of body movements maintain a ball in perpetual motion. Opposing players lock themselves in an abstract dialogue in which the synchronization through hearing of the “ping-pong” in all its subtleties becomes an end in itself.
Imagine yourselves in the Solomon Islands or among the “Gidole” tribe of Southwest Ethiopia, where, in collective music-making events, participants in a circle each produce one tone on a tube without fingerholes, the singular “breaths” interlocking within a hocketing rhythmic and tonal pattern of ever-increasing complexity....

Arnold Dreyblatt from liners notes


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