Here is the link for the grand final? of the 2004 Jokkmokk S?mi Winter Market. A concert of great beauty, diversity and talent. Enjoy!
Update: Our license to broadcast the stream has now expired, and therefore the above link doesn’t work anymore. Questions? Contact the blogging team.
Good news! We will soon be able to provide a streamed version of the great Livja concert that we could not broadcast this past weekend. It is one of the cultural events that we have discussed most in this blog and I am very much looking forward to watching/listening myself. More information later (and many [...]
This weekend in Jokkmokk has been a great experience. We have had an opportunity to take part in numerous activities and to meet several interesting people (probably more so than one would have as a ?normal? visitor to the market). We have learnt much ? both about S?mi culture and about the affordances and limits [...]
Since I have had very little time to blog about the technical parts involved in this project, I thought that it would be suitable to mention something about it at this point. I will here summarize the work with the wireless LAN put up in Jokkmokk.
In order to prepare for the rest of the blogging [...]
As you already have been informed the network connection from Jokkmokk went down completely just two hours before the live concert with Livia were to take place on Saturday night. After several days of preparation this was a rather irritating experience to say the least.
The problem, occurring outside out control, was cause by a malfunctioning [...]
I was amazed at what this group has created in just a few days. These musicians have come from all over the world, collaborated and made *music*. Their music, I must say, is beautiful?
The performance started with the didgeridoo, played by our very own Jim. It gave a sacred aura to the beginning, and foreshadowed [...]
I am going to briefly finish my trip to Jokkmokk and tell you about what I did the afternoon the network crashed. After having decided that we were missing stories that lay with the Jokkmokk inhabitants, I decided to go and search for native Jokkmokkians and listen to what they had to say.
The first video [...]
Top 10
1. Dance house
2. Stephanie at the reindeer race
3. The Livja concert
4. Jim?s ability to stay calm in stressful situations
5. Breakfast and nice talks with our hosts the Sandstr?ms
6. Dancing in the red barn in the woods
7. Friendly salesmen
8. Nice art work
9. Mamma Dalton?s burgers
10. Story telling
Bottom 5
1. Network down
2. Stress!
3. General technology problems
4. [...]
The perhaps most beautiful tune of the evening is quite clean. The contributing sounds are the didgeridoo, the flute, the drums (here the drums played a minor role) plus a female and a male voice, describing the journey of a bird. We get to follow the bird as it flies high and low and the [...]
Something I really enjoyed about the Livia concert was the way in which music from all corners of the world was combined to form a varied and lively performance. However, what intrigued me the most was the way in which certain sounds seem to be universal. As I was listening to ?The Hunter?, by Carolyn [...]
Before the concert on Saturday I went to the music caf? Aja by the museum to listen to Margareta Granvik tell stories, talk about her paintings which decorate the walls in that room, and to hear her sing songs which were written for a multi-media show involving these paintings. After her performance I had a [...]
I received an email from one of our readers in Australia who is also planning a trip to Sweden. She got an email from someone she met at her son’s swimming club recently. They are both interested in Sweden and this other woman sent our reader a link that she had received in a newsletter [...]
I have quite a bit of information to share. Last night I, like my fellow bloggers, just needed to sleep. Blogging this festival has been an intense experience, and one that I want to share. Today we are all back at work, in one form or another, so the rest of my Jokkmokk blogging will [...]
After an hour or so of driving people and stuff around Umeå I have now arrived at my apartment. It feels great to be home, and to be honest I’m a bit exhausted from what might be called information overload. The posts that I couldn’t publish yesterday will be published tomorrow, so stay patient :).
Also, [...]
I have just arrived back in Umeå and found myself wanting to blog. The journey back was uncertain and tense at points due to the network failure of card machines at petrol stations and difficulties in navigating through white-out snow scenery.
What an adventure it has been. I?m now at home listening to a CD by [...]
Due to lack of network access we could not track their GPS-coordinates on their way home. But we could get an image of their GSM-position.
Anton, Jim, Therese and Stefanie, it has been nice following you this journey.
Your GPS-friend Fredrik (send through the GPS-user)
We have now visited Gun & Stefan (it was Stefan who arranged yesterday’s concert) out in the woods. Almost all members of the band were there, and we had a chance to say good bye to these nice and interesting people that Jim has introduced us to. In a minute we’ll be leaving Jokkmokk, but [...]
The Jokkmokk blog team should be on their way home now (or very soon). We have received positive feedback about our coverage of the concert yesterday evening despite network problems in Jokkmokk beyond our control (city sites still down). We hope to broadcast the concert soon and will post information about that here. This also [...]
