Andrew Korenchkin
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There's no limit to what you can put in and how much music you can put in. Nor is there a limit to what genre is put into the capsule. The only thing that would characterize the music you are putting into the capsule is that it is music that you can see being remade, replayed, and covered for the rest of your life and beyond. And you would be content with passing it on and allowing it to stay alive long after this generation or the next. That is really the closet definition I can get to "folk music," a nebulous term that has mostly lost all meaning these days.
I'll go with Grant Kirkhope's work in the Banjo series. I've been listening to it since I was like four or five, and I still listen to it regularly. Yeah, it has an actual composer, but I think I can go back and listen to the music in those games over and over again simply because they morph into diferent things as I listen to them over the years, so they are still evolving. If I ever join an old-time music social gathering, I'll be playing those songs and melodies, or at least incorporating them into my own music.
I'll go with Grant Kirkhope's work in the Banjo series. I've been listening to it since I was like four or five, and I still listen to it regularly. Yeah, it has an actual composer, but I think I can go back and listen to the music in those games over and over again simply because they morph into diferent things as I listen to them over the years, so they are still evolving. If I ever join an old-time music social gathering, I'll be playing those songs and melodies, or at least incorporating them into my own music.
