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 FLAPARTFLAP - WHAT IS IT? photo -J.Jarzabek It might seem that those for whom English is a mother tongue need no explanation, while those who only learned English and don't know this word can take a dictionary and check its meaning. Anyway both don't know what flap means for me. I'm not a native English speaker nor I learned this language at school - I can say only some basic phrases. I have found this word a few years ago going to a concert together with David Mils, a rapper from Brooklyn. I've found it somewhere between trip-hop and jungle. I liked the sound of this word very much. I won't write here about sonoristic and phonetic and any other associations with Polish words because I know you don't know Polish so such explanations will have no sense. I can say that having in my mind all these crisscrossing interlinguistic intercultural relations I found flap to be a very good name for a state of being at the same time absolutely relaxed and absolutely concentrated, a state I do appreciate and enjoy so much. David Mils who knows both me and my music and the meaning of this word said I had hit the target. He somehow succeeded to explain to me what this word meant and I agreed with his opinion. For many years I have been looking for a right place for myself and my music or they have been trying to find a right shelf where me and my music could be put and labelled - all in vain; finally I've done such a shelf myself and labelled it FLAP MUSIC. Soon I came to the conclusion this term didn't have to be limited to the music only. I decided to make of it a kind of universum. Thus Flap Style means for me Presence (Readiness). So, thus Flap People are People Who Are Present (Who Are Ready). To-be-present (to-be-ready) has of course a lot to do with knowing of the self. Then The Flap People Festival was organised in Łódź - it inaugurated the Procadence Movement in this town (a superb movement, indeed!). The art presented in the Procadence Club was characteristic for our times - was really present! - and it somehow determined the further activity of Procadence. Łódź is a big town and Procadence movement is an urban phenomenon. A year after I organised in Zagnańsk (a small village where I live now) the HASA RAPASA Flap Style Festival. Hasa Rapasa is a phrase taken from a very old spell, maybe even of shamanistic origin. So, this festival was to be an activity of ethnic character (festival ludens?), a kind of folk fiesta yet reffering to the present times and not trying to reconstruct the past. Because it is difficult to define flap music within the kinds of music so extreme culturally I have found another solution: it is the music combining natural and virtual tones. While flap culture can refer to the constant transformations of art. (In fact flap should be written with double capital a. But be careful - not FLAAP. One A should be turned upside down and put over the other one. Such double A means double activity and refers to people being too active and ready to share their overactivity with the others. In my name one can see Tibetian "ni" instead of Polish "ni". This syllable symbolizes the people's world and is taken from the Buddha's of Compassion mantra OM MA NI PE ME HUNG.) http://WWW.KINIOR.COM     |
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