Dear ECO-FEM: This is to announce a three part environmental website inspired by early Japanese Women's haiku and waka nature poetry: Part I Idiophonics in Early Japanese Women's Nature Poetry http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/idio/idiophonics.html Part II Idiophones and Environmental Eolithism http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/idio/idiophones.html Part III Animal Magic: An Online Musical, Children's Bestiary http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/pages/animalmagic/index.html Part II includes pictures and background on idiophones. Idiophones are "self-sounders," musical instruments where the material of the instrument itself makes the sound, such as tapping on stones (stone chimes), or on bars of wood (marimba), or plucking metal tongues (kalimba), etc. Originally idiophones were made from objects found in nature, such as gourds, hollowed-out logs or rocks. The first and third sections connect Japanese women's nature poetry to idiophonics in two very different ways. The site also includes an Early Japanese Women's Nature Poets chronology and bibliography. Sarah Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
