http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e70e397f5ebc28d344b3856b7c0d31987d681887ee3947856fca983fa9e407d03&fmt=H
Thought you guys might like to read this article. There's some good vocabulary and information in there. I'll post the rest of my research tonight.
-Ashlee
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Directions to My house
Address: 2220 SW 34th St. Apt. 116
How to get their from school. Get on Archer road and head toward Butler Plaza. Take a right at the 34th St. light. Make a left into Piccadilly Apartments (located on left hand side of the road a little after Windmeadows Blvd). Pull in and park in the very first row of parking. My apartment stairs face the street. It is apartment number 116 on the second level. Call me if you oget lost. 904-476-6040
How to get their from school. Get on Archer road and head toward Butler Plaza. Take a right at the 34th St. light. Make a left into Piccadilly Apartments (located on left hand side of the road a little after Windmeadows Blvd). Pull in and park in the very first row of parking. My apartment stairs face the street. It is apartment number 116 on the second level. Call me if you oget lost. 904-476-6040
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
hand drum - we need these!
Traditional Papua New Guinean musical instruments are primitive and fall mainly into the percussion and wind categories.
The hand drum or kundu is the pillar of musical performances or "sing sings" and there are hundreds of different varieties based on a common design: a hollowed-out log fashioned into an hourglass shape, with a reptile skin stretched over one end as the resonant membrane. The reptile skin (usually goanna or crocodile) is softened in water, stretched over the mouth of the drum and glued in place with tree sap, then bound firmly at the rim with cane.
Pieces of beeswax are attached to the skin to modulate the sound: the wax pieces are moved around until the right pitch is attained.
Kundus range from lightweight 10-inch miniatures which are tapped with two fingers, up to large (and heavy) 50-inch drums which are beaten with the whole hand.
Slit gong drums known as garamuts (left) are made of hollowed logs or tree trunks slit longitudinally along one side and beaten with sticks. Very large garamuts (up to 6 feet long) are used to summon people to meetings, to pass messages to nearby villages, and to perform rituals. Medium-sized and smaller garamut drums are portable and can accompany performers to sing sings and cultural shows.
The hand drum or kundu is the pillar of musical performances or "sing sings" and there are hundreds of different varieties based on a common design: a hollowed-out log fashioned into an hourglass shape, with a reptile skin stretched over one end as the resonant membrane. The reptile skin (usually goanna or crocodile) is softened in water, stretched over the mouth of the drum and glued in place with tree sap, then bound firmly at the rim with cane.
Pieces of beeswax are attached to the skin to modulate the sound: the wax pieces are moved around until the right pitch is attained.
Kundus range from lightweight 10-inch miniatures which are tapped with two fingers, up to large (and heavy) 50-inch drums which are beaten with the whole hand.
Slit gong drums known as garamuts (left) are made of hollowed logs or tree trunks slit longitudinally along one side and beaten with sticks. Very large garamuts (up to 6 feet long) are used to summon people to meetings, to pass messages to nearby villages, and to perform rituals. Medium-sized and smaller garamut drums are portable and can accompany performers to sing sings and cultural shows.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Voting
I support any measures that give us a leg up on the other groups. The only offerings we have so far are feathers and shells.
The dates already posted are fine.
Are these the tribes we are basing our costumes on? If so, that's the research we have to pursue.
Arm bands are only for the males? It seems like the female costumes need a little something more -- all we have are beads, shell necklace, and head dress. Are we wearing leaves as well? Arm bands will probably have to be made with head dress, because everyone's arms are different sizes. Are we using leaves for them as well?
Zach, did you look into the Farmers Market I told you about? The people selling livestock there would probably rent you a pig.
If we want to make music, we will need "drums." What about whistles? Is there a CD we can buy and play? It seems like other groups have actual skits and performances that may fill the 15-20 minutes, what can we do to try and compete?
The dates already posted are fine.
Are these the tribes we are basing our costumes on? If so, that's the research we have to pursue.
Arm bands are only for the males? It seems like the female costumes need a little something more -- all we have are beads, shell necklace, and head dress. Are we wearing leaves as well? Arm bands will probably have to be made with head dress, because everyone's arms are different sizes. Are we using leaves for them as well?
Zach, did you look into the Farmers Market I told you about? The people selling livestock there would probably rent you a pig.
If we want to make music, we will need "drums." What about whistles? Is there a CD we can buy and play? It seems like other groups have actual skits and performances that may fill the 15-20 minutes, what can we do to try and compete?
I spy
hey guys: Vanessa and I saw the other Hagen group's decorations...
they have painted red paper plates
they have bamboo necklace things ( i forgot the name but it's that thing we were gonna make out of skewers)
they also have sand dollars ( i dunno what THAT'S all about)
they have painted red paper plates
they have bamboo necklace things ( i forgot the name but it's that thing we were gonna make out of skewers)
they also have sand dollars ( i dunno what THAT'S all about)
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Last one
Okay, once again sorry about the barrage of information.
Dr. Poynor gave me a book which pretty much outlines everything we'd ever need to know - facepainting techniques, meanings, costume materials, headdress types, etc. It's pretty general info though, not too much on a specific tribe.
I think if we can say "this headdress is called a koi wal, and the dance we performed is the kanan" we won't need to base it off of a specific tribe. The two tribes mentioned in this book are the Ndika and the Kuli, but I haven't been able to find any specific information on them. Everyone, let me know your thoughts on this - we have to write an essay on the final with LOTS of NEW information - we can't just spit back what he's already taught us. Anyone found anything useful in the books that Zach lent out???
Second thing - Farrell found a passage in a book describing how in modern-day mokas, they give away modern objects such as cars and bikes. I think we could do this, as long as we explain it before the performance. We could have a narrator say: "We've chosen to juxtapose traditional costumes with a modern moka ceremony". VOTE YES OR NO NOW!!!!!!
Dr. Poynor gave me a book which pretty much outlines everything we'd ever need to know - facepainting techniques, meanings, costume materials, headdress types, etc. It's pretty general info though, not too much on a specific tribe.
I think if we can say "this headdress is called a koi wal, and the dance we performed is the kanan" we won't need to base it off of a specific tribe. The two tribes mentioned in this book are the Ndika and the Kuli, but I haven't been able to find any specific information on them. Everyone, let me know your thoughts on this - we have to write an essay on the final with LOTS of NEW information - we can't just spit back what he's already taught us. Anyone found anything useful in the books that Zach lent out???
Second thing - Farrell found a passage in a book describing how in modern-day mokas, they give away modern objects such as cars and bikes. I think we could do this, as long as we explain it before the performance. We could have a narrator say: "We've chosen to juxtapose traditional costumes with a modern moka ceremony". VOTE YES OR NO NOW!!!!!!
DATES - I better hear back from EVERYONE!!! Or I'll send the 3-legged pig after you...
12 days until the performance.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET TOGETHER ON THESE DAYS - PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY CONFLICTS FOR THE FOLLOWING DATES ASAP!!!!.
Wed 7/25 (after class) - choreography and finalize costumes
Sun 7/29 (6pm) - make headdresses (Farrell or Peyton's house)
Wed 8/1 (after class) - finalize choreography and run through of performance
Thurs 8/2 - (9pm - 10pm) any necessary final preparations (location TBA)
Fri 8/3 (8am) - meet in Fine Arts studio to get ready
EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET TOGETHER ON THESE DAYS - PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY CONFLICTS FOR THE FOLLOWING DATES ASAP!!!!.
Wed 7/25 (after class) - choreography and finalize costumes
Sun 7/29 (6pm) - make headdresses (Farrell or Peyton's house)
Wed 8/1 (after class) - finalize choreography and run through of performance
Thurs 8/2 - (9pm - 10pm) any necessary final preparations (location TBA)
Fri 8/3 (8am) - meet in Fine Arts studio to get ready
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