This time, I would like to report you about Indonesian event that has been
informed in last Yunita's blog.... Indonesian Culture Night 2014. For this time, I will especially talk about Angklung, one of Indonesian
traditional instrument, that almost Indonesian student of PARE Program participate
to play those instrument.
Angklung
is a musical instrument made out of two bamboo tubes
attached to a bamboo frame. Angklung itself orignated from “angka” and lung”. Angka means “tone”
and lung means “broken” or “lost”.
So, angklung indicate as an incomplete tone, so it needs a rapidly repeating
note to sound. Three or more angklung performers in an ensemble will play just
one note and together complete melodies are produced. Angklung is
popular throughout Southeast Asia, but originated from Indonesia
and it has been used and played by the Sundanese
since the ancient times.
At the time of occurrence, the actual musical instrument Angklung regarded as
sacred because of its presence to accompany
magic-spell on a certain rituals. After times,
angklung instrument change into diatonic
scale. Some sources said, Angklung received a more international attention since
1938 by Daeng Soetigna, from Bandung. Others sources also said the recognition of the existence of
Angklung was first recognized by a great musician Igor Hmel Nitsky, an origin
australia on 1955, and has been used for educational and entertainment
purposes.On November 18, 2010, UNESCO
designated angklung as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of
Humanity as part of the acknowledgment, UNESCO insisted that Indonesia preserve
their heritage.
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| @Ishikari Festival |
@HUISA Festival
As an
exchange student of PARE Program, our activities not only about academic
purposes, this program also targeting us to learn about others culture,
especially japanese. I , me and myself, as part of Indonesian Student
Association of Hokkaido, known as PPI Hokkaido, take this opportunity to learn
and change iformation about japanese and Indonesian culture. Indonesian PARE
students consist of Sugi, Shofa, Yeni, Ria, Nisa, Dailami, Sasa, Ulfi, Mada,
Yunita and I, take this honorable duty to take part to introduce about Angklung
instrument. Beginning from participated in Ishikari Festival, HUISA Festival (Hokkaido
University International Student Association) and
last we performed in Indonesian Cultured Night 2014. After such a hectic
schedules of practice and experiment activity, finally we completed our goal to
give an awesome Angklung performance on November 22, at Higashi Kumin. Thanks to Kana that took this video. Enjoy ^^.
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