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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
