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MUSIC
Musical Instruments of Africa
Idiophones
- An instrument the whole which vibrates to produce a sound when stuck, shaken, scraped, bell,
gong, or rattle
Bafalon - xylophone made from logs or bamboo
Shekere - gourd and shell megaphone with dried gourd and beads woven into a net covering gourd
Agogo
- single or multiple bells; has the highest pitch
- double bell
Atingting kon - split gongs made of wood with slit opening at the bottom
Djembe - shaped like goblet; carved from hollow trunk covered with goat skin
Membranophones
- instruments which have vibrating animal membranes used in drums
Body Percussion
- hand claps, thigh slaps, upper arm or chest pounds, feet stomps
Talking Drum - used to send messages
Lamellaphones
- a set of plucked tongues or keys mounted on a sound board
Mbira - thumb piano or finger xylophone made of wooden board with attached metal lines of graduated
sizes
Chordophones
- any class of musical instruments in which a stretched, vibrating string produces the initial sound
Musical Bow - ancestor of all string instruments
- Mouth Bow
- Resonator Bow
- Earth Bow
Lute
- modern guitar with resonating body, a neck and one string across its body and neck and one string
across its body and neck
Kora - most sophisticated harp of Africa
Zither - comes in varying sizes and shapes whose strings are stretched along its body
Zeze - has one or two string made from steel or bicycle brake wire
Aerophones
Flute (Panpipes) - cone pipes of different lengths tied in a row
Horns (Kudu Horns)
- made from the horn of kudu antelope
- Reed Pipes
- Whistle
- Trumpets
ARTS
COMPUTER/DIGITAL ARTS
Antonio Gorordo - he discovered the art of digital painting. He created his pieces using Adobe Photoshop.
Anina Rubio - famous visual artist in the Philippines.
Jean-Pierre Hébert - independent artist of drawing, mixed media, and algorithmic art.
Ronald "Ron" Davis – American painter who uses two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and digital space.
TECHNOLOGY-BASED ARTWORKS
Mobile Phone Arts - essential tool for most people.
Computer Generated Images (CGI) - application of computer graphics to create images in art, print
media, videogames, television programs, commercials, and videos.
Digital Photography - capture, create, edit and share digital images/photographs.
Electronic/digital cameras - capture images/photographs and store them in built-in/integrated storage
media cards.
Computing devices - include webcam integrated with a computer/laptop or a scanner that enables the
capturing of existing physical (paper/card) images.
Video Games - various interactive games played by electronically manipulating images on a screen.
Digital Painting - a method of creating artwork using a computer.
Adobe Photoshop - a tool to create, modify, combine, and optimize digital photos and images.
Pic Collage – allows you to make collages, incorporating photo sticker text and frames.
Photos – meaning light (Greek)
Graphos – meaning writing (Greek)