A Conversation about Early Music with Elam Rotem

@EarlyMusicSources
Brandon Acker interviews Elam Rotem from the KZbin channel "Early Music Sources"
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0:00 Intro
3:13 What is "Early Music Sources"
6:23 Why play early music?
11:02 What does "early music" mean?
14:15 Elam's favorite music
15:18 Authenticity
18:55 What modern musicians can learn from early music
21:20 How to improvise
24:53 Brandon's own struggles
27:20 Taste and trends
31:35 Performance example
34:36 Elam's wow moment
36:06 Meze Headphones
36:50 Brandon's wow moment
39:38 What is the future of early music?
42:45 Composing
47:52 The lute's challenging history
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[@brandonacker]

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[@bifeldman]

Elam Rotem is an international living treasure.

[@heavynov]

Mr Rotem is not just a composer, but an incredible one at that! Check out his "Lamentation of David" first and then "Joseph and his Brethren".

[@williamstephens9945]

2 of my favourite musical KZbinrs.

[@victor_2403]

I feel quite glad that you both met and made a video together! It's like seeing two gods joining their wisdom and power. :)

[@fokkebaarda]

Well, two very human gods, who shade away from any dogma and are happy to tell how they stumble towards knowledge. It sure was a treat.

[@StadinBasso]

Early Music Sources is my favorite channel. When I started singing early music, Elam's channel provided so many answers to my questions.

[@subjectline]

Elam's channel ROCKS and also the polyphony in Hebrew is amazing.

[@sophelet]

I have learned so much from Elam Rotem's channel!! It's beautifully taught and presented. Of course I am a subscriber. Thank you for offering this inspiring interview. (Kirin)

[@simondanielssonmusic]

The collab I didn't know I desperately wanted until now🥺

[@valtteripennanen4043]

Collab we didn't asl but we needed

[@zaydmosh]

Wow! I have learned so much from Elam Rotem's channel, and as a renaissance lutenist enjoy Brandon's channel a lot. What a combo in one interview! Thanks so much for putting this together, Brandon!

[@lcoleman1961]

I appreciate that you discussed that Early Music is a vague term. It drives me a bit mad because it covers such a long period of time. Music is never static.

[@wbajzek]

Thank you for this! I'm a big fan of Elam's work. In a lot of ways I think the music he specializes in is a lot more interesting than much of modern music, but more importantly, has some great ideas that could be brought back and reimagined.

[@Bach428]

Awesome! Elam is brilliant. I was so glad to see him make an appearance on this channel

[@MattLeGroulx]

Early Music Sources is amazing. One of my favourite channels.

[@tomk8729]

Wow two heroes in the one podcast!

[@unquietthoughts]

A crossover we have always needed!!

[@felixthecat0371]

Love your work Elam ❤

[@drewburgess3039]

Thank you Brandon, Elam Rotem has created important investigations into histories that are “a big mess”. The beauty is apparent and the conflict.

[@josiahsterling7308]

I would love to see you do a video with a clawhammer banjo player, old time American music and clawhammer banjo as we know it was developing at the same time as classical guitars "golden age". Tom Collins has a great KZbin channel but there are lots of other great players including Rhiannon Giddens, Abigal Washburn and Lukas Poole (who makes banjos) . It would be really cool to see the two instruments side by side.

[@gillianomalyev7082]

There's a wax cylinder recording of Tarrega on KZbin. He starts with Maria gavotte

[@djuengst2000]

Great interview, I love both your channels. I think for me Elam is great because if I think of a melody what can I do with the harmony and bass. I thinking about how people used to do it gives me options. Maybe not what I want but a start😊

[@redgit9905]

Incredible interview

[@jonathanlordmusician4493]

Sting’s album was huge for me! My background is composition, improvisation, and jazz, so I still find myself completely unbothered by a modernization of “early music.” I suppose I’ve fallen into viewing them like jazz standards. Rolf Lislevand is one of my favorites and he does CRAZY things in his ensemble.

[@jonathanlordmusician4493]

I love your channel, by the way. Thanks for all of the great videos!

[@molybdnum]

For me the Portamenti / Corsican choir (@31:40" - 34:40") eye-opener was the Pokrovsky Ensemble recording of Stravinsky's 'Les Noces'. The piece went from something dry and minimalist to an engaging, human village scene just by giving the performers license to be less clinically perfect and more 'illuminated & inspired' by the actual context.

[@Agora13]

mental note: never disrespect Early Music in Elam Rotem's presence.

[@aelfrice]

To be fair, I thought Acker was vaguely rude. Rotem didn't push back and was a gentleman.

[@billymeyer99]

Elam Totem my musical hero

[@grocheo1]

I love you Elam.

[@gillianomalyev7082]

Yes!!! Translations!!

[@kabirpalamadai3742]

Please make a video on the Indian Instrument Sitar!!! :)

[@OAmus]

I love how staunchly non-dogmatic Elam is.

[@anthonyrich1592]

Congratulations, @EarlyMusicSources, on cracking 100K subscribers!

[@matteogarzetti]

We are all wrong, and it's fine. ❤❤❤❤ 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Thanks! 18:30

[@matteogarzetti]

"support the pieces that we do, and don't go against them"😮😮😮❤

[@truthinesssss]

👍

[@LordKingOf]

Is this somewhere as an actual podcast? Us peasants without KZbin premium would like to know

[@brandonacker]

It's only here for the moment.

[@LordKingOf]

Thank you none-the-less, you’re videos keep me motivated to keep learning

[@chrisbrowder771]

You should check out a Marty Friedman song or 2

[@sophelet]

Sigh... I lost two long comments in progress when an advertisement interrupted the program. A short form: how to understand the term "good taste" in treatises, pedagogical writing from earlier sources and styles, and composers' instructions.

[@kierongilfillan7783]

Hi brandon do you like alhambra 5p classical guitars and salvarez optima strings

[@gartenkauz2152]

YT put so much advertising in the video that I gave up watching.

[@brandonacker]

Thanks for letting me know. I'll delete some of those ads

[@AdamCharlton]

💚🖤❤️🤍🙏

[@sophelet]

The misconception of performances being "perfect" in the time of the composition. Is pretty widespread. Take a look at Early Music Journal (Oxford) from 1994 in honor of Palestrina. The choir he performed with or led in the Vatican must have sounded AWFUL! There are comments about the singers in the payroll records, and some are surprising and shocking. So-and-so has no more voice, or show up drunk. Also, to taste-- what about the incredibly fast tempi in some performances of high Baroque music now (such as Vivaldi pieces for strings)?

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Hey man, if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.

[@GreenBlueWalkthrough]

9:52 I don't get what you mean by early music... 1. 1700s isn't early to me at all people still listen to/play the greatest hits of that time all the time and use them in modern production like Legnd of Zelda's theme is based on a song from that time... 2. Synths can play early music even the simlist ones and all AAA,AAAA games use full ocrtras these fdays for their OSTs so it's still alive and well.

[@Ziad3195]

He said turn of the 17th century. Which means late 1500s.

[@Squisky]

My liege; you have a podcast?