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| The love of my life, a model of Amati violin by Georges Adolphe Chanot, 1899 |
Selamat Datang! Welcome to my blog and thanks for dropping in. This blog aims to share with music enthusiasts and community about a musical journey, musical discoveries, and life's lessons. As a prelude to my worlds of music, the violin (pictured in the portrait) is one invested by my father for me to pursue my dream of becoming a musician. It is a French violin of Amati model made in 1899 by Georges Adolphe Chanot. This priceless gift was the beginning of my journey into the world of music, orchestras, music camps and festivals, concert halls, practices, performing, music studies, and more studies at graduate schools. Music and currently research, is a never-ending study. I learn all the time, not only from teachers and professors or from books, but often from my music students, my travels and my meeting with people of different cultures and ethnicity backgrounds. From Western art music, I branch out into the field of ethnomusicology because of my love for-- people; culture; the aesthetics of creativity processes and artistry (found in oral tradition, songs, poems, dance, crafts, instrument making); research; and always having an inquisitive mind to study the music of the "others."
