children

[corey_larkin]

dude. whoever said the wiggles and the doodlebops clearly hasn't seen the wonder pets. they're amazing.

the wonder pets are great but they really only do an unlimited number of variations on the same two songs...

[cdrk]

Two electro-acoustic stories for children (both in French) :
Loulou & Pierrot-la-Lune et les drôles de sons (Philippe Mion)
Alice ou la boîte à image (Michel Chion)

[dave quam]

[Gerardo A]

Talking with Surfer about this topic the other day, I remembered these quotes:

"'Frederic Rzewski and I have both discovered [...] that when you do start having small children, life is very different, particularly your working life. And we both found ourselves making musical structures with very small units."--Christian Wolff

Conversation with my son (3 ¾) while listening to Varianter by Akiyama, Taxt, Lonning, Reinertsen on Sofa (translated from the German).

"Why do they play so slow?"
Would you prefer something more upbeat?
"This is a long note. It probably lasts for a thousand days. They’re all dead by now, right?"
No, they’re still very much alive.
"If they're still alive, why do we have music by them? Is that like Mozart, when he was alive?"

[Gerardo A]

Adriana Calcanhotto 'Partimpim'; it's brazilian music intended for kids; there is a DVD with a concert from this disc, where the musicians show how to make all the curious sounds, my children love it...

Seconded, found them last night and I'm liking her songs a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Tej6g_oHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTix6iC8uqU

[bryan]

My son, he's four and a half, recently asked "Daddy, is this music?" when I was playing some noise-sound based stuff in the car recently.

He's been hearing this type of stuff, but this is the first time he questioned if it was music.

[jon abbey]

My son, he's four and a half, recently asked "Daddy, is this music?" when I was playing some noise-sound based stuff in the car recently.

He's been hearing this type of stuff, but this is the first time he questioned if it was music.

sounds like he's on the track to becoming a mainstream music critic.

[bryan]

Haha, yes. It's either Kelly Clarkson or it's crap.

[Gerardo A]

Nobukazu Takemura - Child and Magic. Mesmorizing.

Mesmerizing indeed, I'm playing it for the first time and it's sounding awesome. I also dl'd last night the Zorn "Music for Children", it has a few ADD/grindcore-plus-many-styles pieces that are funny.

[DaveX]

My kids (currently 5 and 10) enjoy pretty much any Sesame Street record we've got-- I collect these, so there's a lot of them around the house-- as well as random tropicalia, Mexican dance music, you name it. We had a high-life dance-off a few months ago, and they were loving it. Music is pretty well always on in the house, but it's mostly the beat-based stuff that gets their attention. My youngest digs Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, and stuff from the first OK Go album (I don't have the other ones) and can sing a lot of those songs. My oldest used to love the song "One Headlight" (The Wallflowers) as an infant, and also Imagination's "Body Talk". It's anybody's guess what kids will latch onto, ha!

But someone was requesting music by kids also-- my daughter made an album, "Style City," which some folks here might enjoy. It's a lo-fi drone affair, with strange lyrics about giant robots and death. Think Shaggs-meets-Eno. The trades-only physical copies are all gone now, but she's sharing the full album here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mmnz1ih4wlw

And here's the Style City myspace: http://www.myspace.com/stylecitymusik

--DaveX

[Moon]

I have made a few recordings with my nephews.
I also left them a guitar and the biggest of my amps since last summer so I have good hopes for some awesome jams this summer. The oldest is more of a thinker, he really took a liking to my electronics, spending a lot of time fine-tuning some sounds and analysing the effect of different pedals. The other, actually there's three of them by now, is an impulsive improviser, not a shy player at all. I can hear him when him and his friends are doing that spontaneous poetry that children does as well, he just blurts out the strangest sentences.

http://bobobilbjorn.tumblr.com/post/41066711 - This one is called "Joke Star Wars", apparently all we were doing was making star wars sounds, but they were "wrong" star wars sounds. I love the vocoder sounds, although I'm not quite sure how he did that.

http://bobobilbjorn.tumblr.com/post/43602794 - I don't know how to classify this, but I like it a lot. He starts some spoken word blurbs with wonderful timing and his guitar noise is wonderfully aggressive. I think this would be called "that's how you do rock music" as that's what he's saying. "You have to make different sounds, you have to make different sounds, is this the right way, is this how I play?". I'm deliberately quiet as that seemed to make him say more strange things and repeat himself.

I know it would have been better if I didn't join in on these jams, but they did specifically ask to play with me, I promise.

[Robert G]

Anyone here know of Los Plumabits? I have no idea what they are outside of a Facebook group page and these videos that are on YouTube. They're pretty awesome in that they win despite doing what most indie rock bands trying to be "weird" fail at.

Disco Laser

Baila Robot Baila

Dinosaurio Rex

Amor Amoroso

Control Mental

[yonhosago]

Anyone here know of Los Plumabits? I have no idea what they are outside of a Facebook group page and these videos that are on YouTube. They're pretty awesome in that they win despite doing what most indie rock bands trying to be "weird" fail at.

Disco Laser

Baila Robot Baila

Dinosaurio Rex

Amor Amoroso

Control Mental

Those are from a kids TV show in Chile called Experimento Wayápolis, which is some sort of spin off of the absolutely awesome and hugely succesful 31 minutos. 31 minutos was aired in three seasons (2003-2005), made 3 or 4 cds (all recommended for kids and parents) and even a movie (2008). Basically they were puppets in a tv news show, with all what is "expected" in a tv show for kids (lessons, values and so on) but with a heavy dose of sarcasm and irony, directed to politics and tv industry. (Well, if you're a chilean you'll find it funny).

And, most important for this thread, the songs, composed by Pablo Ilabaca (guitarrist of Chancho en Piedra) and sung by different characters of the show, are very cool.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... nutos&aq=0

[Gerardo A]

My kids (currently 5 and 10) enjoy pretty much any Sesame Street record we've got-- I collect these, so there's a lot of them around the house-- as well as random tropicalia, Mexican dance music, you name it. We had a high-life dance-off a few months ago, and they were loving it. Music is pretty well always on in the house, but it's mostly the beat-based stuff that gets their attention. My youngest digs Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, and stuff from the first OK Go album (I don't have the other ones) and can sing a lot of those songs. My oldest used to love the song "One Headlight" (The Wallflowers) as an infant, and also Imagination's "Body Talk". It's anybody's guess what kids will latch onto, ha!

But someone was requesting music by kids also-- my daughter made an album, "Style City," which some folks here might enjoy. It's a lo-fi drone affair, with strange lyrics about giant robots and death. Think Shaggs-meets-Eno. The trades-only physical copies are all gone now, but she's sharing the full album here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mmnz1ih4wlw

And here's the Style City myspace: http://www.myspace.com/stylecitymusik

--DaveX

I'm really enjoying Style City, kudos on having such a talented daughter!

[DaveX]

I'm really enjoying Style City, kudos on having such a talented daughter!

She'll be very happy to hear this! Thanks for checking it out!

[eric weddle]

Posted this in I Hate Promotions few months back... reissue of a wild 1986 cassette by a 10-year old.... Human Skab - Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags LP/CD/MP3 (FV27)


Human Skab was a 10-year old boy from Elma, Washington who played African music with buckets and spoons. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young Travis Roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings.... you can check out the full description on the other board, here.

It is warped, music by children living in the post-80s cold war, though, not sure many children 'get' as those who are older... Also, you can check out the Skab in action opening for David Thomas back in 1986 here.

[ImprovSpirit]

My children all really like both Nuggets box-sets, Jad Fair & Tom Waits. One of my sons plays Type O Negative at low volume to help him sleep . When they were younger it was Wiggles, Jonas Brothers, Teletubbies, Sesame St., Woody Guthrie, etc.

[jenn devious]

i teach art in an after school program with kids ages 4-12, and one of the best days was when i brought in a bunch of "noise makers" (voice changers, a doorbell, ets.) and recorded them jamming, one session with a group of 4-6 yr olds and one with some older 9-11ish kids. they had a blast and needless to say the recording turned out awesome and crazy. kids rock.

[d.at]

My nieces (10 and 12) love (and have for as long as I can remember) the B-52's. In fact, they got me into them as I'd previously dismissed them, but a long car drive across the Rockies with almost non-stop B-52's swayed me. Eventually.

[RFKorp]

It's hard not to love the B-52's