Singing bus horns in West Sumatra

(auralarchipelago.com)

52 points | by Kaibeezy 11 days ago

4 comments

  • pierrec 42 minutes ago
    This website is an ethnomusicology goldmine! Great work from someone who seems to be doing it out of passion. I've been reading/listening through it and my favorite so far is the piece on highland Wisisi: https://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/wisisi
  • wejick 1 hour ago
    The modern evolution of this lives long on the bus around Indonesia, in the form of telolet.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_Telolet_Om

  • imchillyb 3 hours ago
    Sing me a song, Mr. Kalason man. Sing me a song on a bus. We'll miss all of those pure-ish tone melodies. Driving your competitors nuts.

    That was an interesting read. There is a movie called RV, and in that movie there is an RV with a kalason type select-a-melody horn installed. I'm glad we don't have these distractions in our vehicles, but they would surely be a fun diversion while stuck in traffic. Can you imagine the cacophony of a congested California freeway, with each vehicle belting out their own melodies on their own kalason? I can. No thank you. But, to dream...

  • fsckboy 3 hours ago
    was disappointed there was no bus. and he only knows one song and it's really long.