Unlike the other blogs I have written, I have no personal connection with Arabic or Indian culture. This left me a little perplexed on where to begin, as I was also home sick today with the stomach bug I also missed the beginning of India. When reading the instructions on the blog Dr. Vaneman mentioned we can also include Nepal, which DING (lit up the lightbulb in my head). Whose from Nepal? Tibetan Monks. One of the things about the Tibetan culture that I always found intriguing was throat singing...
Another thing I found cool and that the monks are known for are the "singing bowls". It is a beautiful art form that I found quite relaxing and is definitely something I can see myself unwinding or meditating to.
Finally I wanted to look into more Arabic pop, after watching Mona Haydar. I found this article online of Arabic-English mashup songs that I found really cool! The videos are liked in the article and are definitely something I will be listening to again! CLICK HERE!!!!
The monks are very cool and I really remember them from how the tv shows them (which is nothing bad). They are very mind driven and spiritual. The singing bowls sound really cool and go with sounding spiritual. And its really cool that you found so many mash-ups.
It is very interesting to know about the singing bowls and also I did look it up on google as one of friends was telling me about it. I have not seen anyone else use it in the country for music but it is very fascinating.
Throat singing is so cool! I never realized why it sounded so strange until I found out that it is two different notes being sung at once by the same person!
I'm glad you followed up with the Tibetan Monks. We had a group of them visit Spartanburg several years ago--they were hosted by Converse, Wofford, and the Chapman Center, and the basically took Chapman over for a week (and lived on the Converse campus). The spent the week creating a large sand mandala in the lobby of Chapman and doing presentations of music and dance and art in the evening. On the last day, they had a ceremony where they swept up all of the sand used to create the mandala. They took the sand (we went with them) to Glendale Shoals at set it free in the river so that the prayers going with the sand could flow to the ocean and hence all over the world. It was really special.
The monks are very cool and I really remember them from how the tv shows them (which is nothing bad). They are very mind driven and spiritual. The singing bowls sound really cool and go with sounding spiritual. And its really cool that you found so many mash-ups.
ReplyDeleteI love the singing bowls. But I have never been able to make a sound from it. So I am impressed by anyone who can.
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I have seen those singing bowls but I never have had a chance to listen to them. Very cool sound, sounds almost like a bell!
ReplyDeleteI think throat singing is so cool, especially how they do it in a religious context. I always associated it with death metal and stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteThe singing bells sound so cool!
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting to know about the singing bowls and also I did look it up on google as one of friends was telling me about it. I have not seen anyone else use it in the country for music but it is very fascinating.
ReplyDeleteThroat singing is so cool! I never realized why it sounded so strange until I found out that it is two different notes being sung at once by the same person!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you followed up with the Tibetan Monks. We had a group of them visit Spartanburg several years ago--they were hosted by Converse, Wofford, and the Chapman Center, and the basically took Chapman over for a week (and lived on the Converse campus). The spent the week creating a large sand mandala in the lobby of Chapman and doing presentations of music and dance and art in the evening. On the last day, they had a ceremony where they swept up all of the sand used to create the mandala. They took the sand (we went with them) to Glendale Shoals at set it free in the river so that the prayers going with the sand could flow to the ocean and hence all over the world. It was really special.
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