Orchid Ensemble - Suksma (excerpt) "Ghost Project"

Suksma in an old Javanese language that means spirit, soul, abstract, maya. It refers to the world of spirit that is unseen. There are two types of suksma i.e.; langgeng (peace) and nglembara (wandering spirits or ghosts). Usually the suksma langgeng refers to the peaceful, and in contrast suskma nglembara refers to the ghostly. The concept of birth, life, death, birth, live, death is a good example of cyclical journey of suksma. Using the deep feeling and musical intensity that is taken from Chinese Erhu, Zheng, Marimba, Gender, and percussions, this music is meant a try to interact with the spirit.

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Music

Tags:

• Orchid Ensemble
• Vancouver
• erhu
• harp
• zheng
• guzheng
• percussion
• Lan Tung
• Sutrisno Hartana
• Jonathan Bernard
• Aleksandra Dulic
• Kenneth Newby
• 2008
• Halloween
• interdisciplinary
• ghost
• fusion
• east meets west
• Chinese
• Indonesian
• gamelan
• Javanese
• gender
• mask dance
• music
• spirit

[semitouch]

absolutely mesmerizing...

it is rare to see such a fine balanced interdisciplinary work... virtuosic synergy. i really look forward for more performance work like this.