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Today I will give a presentation on my personal school experience.
I will have do overview about the structure of the Art &  Technology and my personal experience and growth in the last years.

More information on:

http://www.ivaa-online.org/2012/11/presentasi-citysoundscape-2012/

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Goodbye Medan

Citysoundscape Medan 2012 ended yesterday. For 12 days I was assisting Piet Hein and 9 participants to make a soundscape. It was an intense project with long days, but most of all it was a lot of fun and I've learned a lot. Also a littlebit of the Batak Toba language. Horas!

I had the honour to meet some great people and to help on this project. A wonderful experience!

Pictures will follow soon!

Rollercoasting through Medan

Allright,
After helping in a few composition classes and asking around for tradiotional music. I found my way to USU (Universitas Sumatra Utarra)
Accompanied by myself I took an ankot (local minibus transport) to the university. I'd heared that there was a department of ethnomusicology and I started asking around.

Immediatley I was brought to the head of the department and before I knew I was joining a class and drumming to Padang music. When I finished this class I heard music from the Toba lake next door.

Personally this music makes me very happy. It's very rithmic, uptempo music. The dance to this music is called Tor-tor. So I didn't hasitate to have a look. They were very nice young students and when I told my plans they were happy to coöperate with me.

Yesterday I returned with all my gear and we recorded for almost 4 hours. I showed them how I make music and how ableton live worked. I'm happy that I'm recording in quite an early stage. It's quite exciting to go to a place and ask; "hey I like your music, can I put a microphone on your face?". Also for them this is not common phenomenon. 

After we recorded they put me on the right ankot. Nothing here brings you closer to the culture as riding an ankot. Especially the one I took yesterday! Switching 4 lanes in one time, pulling up from 0 to 60 for 10 meters then hitting the brakes again. I wish we had rollercoasters like this! I think in 20 minutes we almost crashed 7 times.

Last time I hated this city, but now I see it's very interesting. Christians, muslims an Hindoes are living in harmony together and extremism is far fetched. While I see daily conflicts in the middle of Sulawesie where unfortunately muslims and christian still have to learn to live in peace.