jamesa’s thirty-eight comments

A nice tune! - my thoughts are based on the infinite monkeys, infinite typewriters idea. The winning tune was still selected by humans, presumably after many failures and trial and error - so can this not be a case of over fitting to human curation? more…

Transcribed from a live playing in a video of Paddy Cronin: more…

Fantastic thank you - what a tune more…

Hello - Can anyone get the name of the hornpipe at the end of this interview with Paddy Cronin? more…

Presumably you are an academic ethnologist and are therefore fully qualified to comment on the writing style of papers in this field ;) It's not specifically written for a lay audience, whence the use of technical terms. To me it seemed accessible enough... more…

The idea of turning up at a random session being able to bust out reels at full speed on trumpet would be hilarious. This guy looks like he could do it! more…

I have a month old baby and have had only 3 hours of sleep though, I think it's actually fine :D more…

Great new feature! One minor suggestion that may just be me being confused, after setting it on and forgetting, I then couldn't tell immediately if 'Get an email when someone adds a comment' was the state (i.e. I am currently getting the emails, like a ... more…

Hardanger fiddle is a possible contender, already a couple of great players out there e.g. Caoimhin O Raghallaigh. more…

On one hand I'd say half the point of folk music in general is that it is 'easy' so that folk can join in without spending years at the conservatoire... But you could remind her that Beethoven was a huge fan of Irish music. In fact so many great compose... more…