job shit + gamelan music
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lobelia321I can't begin to say how shitty my job is. I am too bored and stressed even to write about it. I feel threatened and bullied. I am being threatened with redundancy if I don't teach 16 hours (not a workload agreed with the union) but they don't have 16 hours of teaching to give me. I saw the union representative this morning but have not a huge amount of confidence that the union can do anything to protect me but at least I feel a bit better because I took some steps. Then more shit hit the fan in the immediate wake of this. I am so absolutely appallingly mismanaged by corrupt nepotist puppets that it takes my breath away.
I shall take solace in gamelan, my family, my novel, my book and my lovely LIveJournal.
P.S.
Gamelan is Indonesian orchestral music (specifically Javanese and Balinese). I grew up in Indonesia and love this music; I went to a concert in the summer and wept uncontrollably (there was a dancer, also). I used to play in the local gamelan society before the birth of t'sons and have started it up again last week. I will go every Tuesday night from now on. It is basically percussion (xylophone-like things and gongs and gong-like things plus drums) plus singing plus string instruments (but the latter are hard and for advanced people). I used to do Balinese dancing when I was little and can still do some of the movements. I don't play any other musical instruments and gamelan was my introduction to playing in an ensemble. The great thing about gamelan is that you don't learn one instruments only but all of them and you rotate.
Pics of gamelan:
Listen to some gamelan here:
http://www.balibeyond.com/mangkua.html
http://www.balibeyond.com/iramaa.html
http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/Nyi_Tjondrolukito_-_Palaran_Pangkur.mp3
This is the piece we learned to play last week, a popular piece for beginners called 'Ricik ricik' (pronounced reecheek reecheek, sort of):
http://home.hccnet.nl/v.albada/GAME/RICIK2.WAV
I shall take solace in gamelan, my family, my novel, my book and my lovely LIveJournal.
P.S.
Gamelan is Indonesian orchestral music (specifically Javanese and Balinese). I grew up in Indonesia and love this music; I went to a concert in the summer and wept uncontrollably (there was a dancer, also). I used to play in the local gamelan society before the birth of t'sons and have started it up again last week. I will go every Tuesday night from now on. It is basically percussion (xylophone-like things and gongs and gong-like things plus drums) plus singing plus string instruments (but the latter are hard and for advanced people). I used to do Balinese dancing when I was little and can still do some of the movements. I don't play any other musical instruments and gamelan was my introduction to playing in an ensemble. The great thing about gamelan is that you don't learn one instruments only but all of them and you rotate.
Pics of gamelan:
Listen to some gamelan here:
http://www.balibeyond.com/mangkua.html
http://www.balibeyond.com/iramaa.html
http://www.asianclassicalmp3.org/Nyi_Tjondrolukito_-_Palaran_Pangkur.mp3
This is the piece we learned to play last week, a popular piece for beginners called 'Ricik ricik' (pronounced reecheek reecheek, sort of):
http://home.hccnet.nl/v.albada/GAME/RICIK2.WAV
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Date: 2006-10-09 08:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-10-09 09:12 pm (UTC)There was a gamelan society at York where I did my degree and PGCE, and I loved the sound of it though I never played. Find your peace wherever you can.
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-09 10:13 pm (UTC)Hmm, gamelan... Never heard of that which is weird since the family of a friend is from Indonesia. Will have to ask her. Sound sgreat though what with rotating the instruments.
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:11 pm (UTC)There may be a gamelan in Berlin somewhere, I seem to remember something about it. That musical instruments museum behind the Philharmonie might have one, or the Dahlem museum.
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Date: 2006-10-13 08:51 pm (UTC)What, btw, is your icon??
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Date: 2006-10-12 11:58 pm (UTC)I used to do Balinese dancing in Jakarta.
COOL! I never tried traditional dance o__O I was never good in dancing and all that *sniffs*
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Date: 2006-10-13 08:50 pm (UTC)I was never good in dancing and all that
Oh, I wasn't any good but I did it! :-)
So is there much Bollywood in Indonesia?
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Date: 2006-10-14 12:06 am (UTC)So is there much Bollywood in Indonesia?
OH YEAH MOST DEFINITELY! I'm not a fan myself, only watched a couple of them, mostly Shahrukh Khan ^^;; he's really popular here, and Kajol too (I thik it's because that movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, hehe, see? I know! LOL)
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