Saturday and Sunday in Bandung, exploring the city. The highlight of the weekend has been the show at Saung Angklung Udjo on Saturday. This place is an educational laboratory and training center to preserve the Sundanese culture – Angklung in particular. It consists of a theater where they perform shows, a bamboo handicraft center, and a bamboo instrument workshop. You can learn more here.
The photos and the links that follow do not serve justice to the emotions elicited by the show!
The whole audience was introduced to the use of the angklung, a musical instrument made of two or three bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to have a resonant pitch when struck and are tuned to octaves. The base of the frame is held in one hand, whilst the other hand strikes the instrument. We were able to play a song - as an orchestra - after 15 minutes of training. This was obviously not due to our ability, but to the mastery of the presenter (and Angklung orchestra director).
They gave to each person in the audience an angklung. Each angklung produces a different note, so out of 140 people in the show, there were 20 people playing the same note. He assigned to each note a hand gesture, which was the sign for the holder of that angklung that was time to play it. The result is this:
But his orchestra can do much better things...
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The whole audience was introduced to the use of the angklung, a musical instrument made of two or three bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to have a resonant pitch when struck and are tuned to octaves. The base of the frame is held in one hand, whilst the other hand strikes the instrument. We were able to play a song - as an orchestra - after 15 minutes of training. This was obviously not due to our ability, but to the mastery of the presenter (and Angklung orchestra director).
They gave to each person in the audience an angklung. Each angklung produces a different note, so out of 140 people in the show, there were 20 people playing the same note. He assigned to each note a hand gesture, which was the sign for the holder of that angklung that was time to play it. The result is this:
But his orchestra can do much better things...
On Sunday we went to Pasar Baru, one of the oldest markets in Jakarta (since the 18th century), famous for everything you would like to bargain on. People come from outside the country to Bandung to shop here.
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