Playing this instruments (Gender Bali) 4 player, each of them mastering left and right hands playing independently in control, and one side couple in complementary mirror with the other couple in front, left hand playing melody in union, right hand play in interlocking melody with others, also with the Wayang in case of shadow play accompaniment; rhythm, so the four is in harmony horizontally to enjoy together a transcending moment of concert, the 4 to serve the shadow of life, story, Wayang, shadow play.
Remembering my childhood in Bali, in the 1950's, awaken my peaceful feeling of well balance, smiling state of mind , energy and body. I regret now not to have the chance to learn it, even I have relative in my village at Banjar Pemedilan Denpasar, bapak Rindi from Tegallinggah, next village teaching gender,
but instead, I learn violin, guitar, and i joint an Orkes Kroncong, directed by my relative family : Bapak Wayan Suda....
The brother of Anak Agung Cakra give my mother a broken violin, and Bapak Suda repair it. But without teacher, my heart was beaten hard when playing the note of violin, so tense, i forgot to breath, ha haaa.
At the age of 15, in Sumbawa Besar, i made my "guitar", in fact ukulele, made of tin ol Shell oil... with 4 plastic fishing line, .... funny childish proudness, I show off to my friends. My mother was feeling ashamed that I took a tin ukulele for a guitar. She said:" if you success next years to upper class, I will buy you a guitar". Ha haa, it motivated my studying. As you imagine may be, I got my new guitar, is quiet big for me, and it sound vibrate last looonger than my tin ukulele. Ti was a grand feeling.
What a waste time of my childhood, I feel now, but the sound of that music awaken something that has been printed as pattern in me.
There are age in childhood, 0-6/7 years, children are/were very receptive ready to adopt a lot of thing, a lot of basic/foundation of future art, future way of pleasure, future job to enjoy in life. In those age, in Bali we consider that age as the age of DEWA, gods/goddess, where the child is living the blooming of their ancestors heritage (the spring of DNA)
The work and the question is to catch ant to cultivate the right personal element/ talent in its right moment in life, understand that NATURE in us has its own season of fertility, its own program, of blooming, of fruiting, of rooting ....
hmmmm
Who is/are the master, the guide ?
Where are those divers schools?
Let's see 3 periods of educational moment in human life, grossly in 10 years step, fundamental basic foundation / life education, and how the years filled by natural program of NATURE ?
- there are school of body 0-10 years, free playfulness feeling, without judgement, ready to do and to play "innocently". Period of no ME.
- then comes school of emotion, energy of like and dislike, energy sexual as energy of ancestral creation/creativity, school of diversity colors of energy of life 10-20 years, emotional and fleshy love experiences. Good and bad of/for ME.
- 20-30 year, school of head/thought/intelligence education., what science to understand and to master, university period, right or wrong for/of Me.
- 30- .... School of life, practicing the 3 diplomas.
- 30-40 years, earning by working
- 40-50 years, crystalizing what has been earned.
- 50 years: golden age
- 50-60 collecting the knowledge, knowledge as the juice of experiences, the light of fruit of work: wisdom
- 60-70 preparation to release material belonging, knowledge transmission
- 70-80 returning the wisdom to future generation, release emotional links
- 80-90 releasing all opinion, like the wind and the current of the ocean flow naturally, the mind has no will.
- 90- .... what to say is Sanathana Dharma, eternal law of cosmos, symphonization of the one and the multiple diversity university.
to elevate and to transcend that sexual energy of creativity, there are important moment waiting for us, considered as the field of artistic expression/work ...... to review what you carry since .... in head, in energy, in body, in material.
pondering on Soltice day 21st december 2014
now 22nd dec.
Pondering on Birth of Trust, I found this article somewhere, worth to ponder as fruit of some one's contemplation, consideration:
up-dated 11h24, friday, 5 february 2016