Sung Lisu
an instrument of the Lisu in Northern Thailand. There are other names as well (subu for one); it's related to the sanxien and shamisen. It's from northern Thailand, but there are relations with Tibet, and so forth. JSTOR has an article on Lisu music and there's one beautiful video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCVaEwxE134&feature=related I'm in Colorado and made an exceptionally poor recording with the instrument, also called dsyboo with umlauts over the o's; I have only a small voice recorder here. So I transferred with the recorder speaker into a mic into Audacity and then took the .wav file into Audition. By that time the sound was totally transformed, so I went with it and made the following piece - which sounds nothing like the instrument, but is, I think, of interest. When I return to New York, I'll do a proper recording. I've included a picture of the instrument as well. http://www.alansondheim.org/sunglisu.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/subux.mp3 For those who want to find the JSTOR article, look for The Music of the Lisu of Northern Thailand By HANS PETER LARSEN University of Copenhagen, Institute of Musicology Enjoy! - Alan _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
