Tag: Exploration

Friendship Day – Establishing Circles of Trust
What is friendship day to you? Here is a personal reflection on friendship from a friend who spent lockdown on a remote tropical island ...

Senyawa – Lurking Beyond the Shadows, Beneath the Depths, and into other Dimensions
Senyawa are not a household name by any means, although over the past decade, they have been making a significant impact both in their native Indonesia, and also across the world amongst ...
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Rhythm Salad Music Clinic [Picture]
Rhythm Salad League is one of Sacred Bridge's capacity building programs designed to increase the abilities, insights, and independence of musicians and actors within musical circles ...

Namarina Youth Dance “SoulSphere of Jakarta”: The 360° Art performance
Since joining Sacred Bridge I have experienced a lot within the arts and for around one year I have been learning about the various art forms that can represent the 21st century ...
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NYD at the Museum: SoulSphere of Jakarta [Picture]
[Jakarta, LTTW] Namarina Youth Dance (NYD) at the Museum: SoulSphere of Jakarta was a unique dance performance reflecting the behavior of the people of Jakarta. Much like a time machine, NYD invited ...

MUSIC: REVISITED
In 2018, our sister web, Vox de Cultura, had an opportunity to interview a young experimental composer, turntablist, and electronic music artist who has been responding to her surroundings, may it be ...

Isao Tomita, a Japanese Pioneer of Electronic Music, Died at 84
[Jakarta, LttW] Japanese pioneer of electronic music Isao Tomita has died of heart failure last Thursday (May 5th) at Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital, at the age of 84. A private funeral on ...

Zap Mama, Movement by a Woman (and an Unreleased Single!)
Music act of artist Marie Daulne "People recognize a soul, not a genre, and there is a longer life for that type of composition." ...

Obituary, One of The Pioneers of Sound Sampling in Rock Music, Holger Czukay
September 5, 2017, Co-founder and bassist of German Rock band Can, Holger Czukay passed away at the age of 79 and left us an abundance of legacies. He died eight months after ...

Persistence in Diversity
[Jakarta, LTTW] On April 22, 2018, Namarina Youth Dance (NYD), Indonesia’s semi-professional dance company held a dance performance with the theme Dancing for the Future at Goethe Haus, a German cultural center located ...

I Nyoman Astita, Progressing Bali
Scholar/forerunner in Balinese contemporary performing arts “Now, be it new music, or it may be called urban music as well, it is no longer relevant to me, as long as they are ...

Obituary, Lou Reed
(NEW YORK, CNN, BLUEFAT, LTTW) Lou Reed, who brought rock and roll into theretofore unexplored experiential realms with a literary and unabashedly adult voice as the vocalist and guitarist for the Velvet ...

Akram Khan’s Giselle
Bridging Two Different Centuries in a Refreshing WayAkram Khan’s Giselle returns to Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London on 20 – 23 September 2017 after its successful performances last year. Performed by English National ...

Stomu Yamash’ta, The Man from the East
World renowned Percussionist/Zen Music Originator “I must first thank all the musicians who were unknown, never had even the slightest taste of fame and fortune, and still committed to music until they ...

To Artist Andrea Buttner, Poverty Is “Good”; To Me, I Don’t Really Care Much About It
by Bhima Aryateja [THE IRISH TIMES, LTTW, DUBLIN] Poverty is often related to all things negative. To some extent, poverty can even lead to crimes, violence, drug abuse, etc.; although in reality, ...

A Musical Journey of Dave Scanlon
Although it doesn’t relate to number of age, the word “exploration” is closely associated to young people; be it in the arts or other scenes. Talking about youth, LTTW recently had an ...

In Search of a Meaningful Life
Popular MIT anthropology course offers contemplation and dialogue on life's big questions.“Many of us at MIT have these deep, late-night conversations about the grander purpose of our existences,” says Choudhury, a senior ...

Sword to the Stomach: Seppuku and the Case of Altruistic Suicide
If you ever watched a samurai film , you probably would have seen harakiri - a suicide act by thrusting a dagger or short sword to oneself for the purpose of retaining ...

Engineers Could Learn a lot from Dance When Designing Urban Transport
Dance and engineering – at first glance they don’t look like they have anything in common. But if one digs under the layers, there are plenty of similarities, more than what we ...

Obituary, Tim Rollins
[Jakarta, LTTW]“…They all hated school but they loved art, so I went through art to make them love knowledge…” That was what Tim Rollins told Artspace when they asked him about his ...

The 5th On Zen Ceremony at Daitokuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
[Kyoto, LTTW] On June 1, 2011, the sacred Dragon Hall of the Daitokuji Temple was once again used for a special ceremony after hundreds of years. For five years, the On Zen ...

Recycling Air Pollution to Make Art
Startup’s system captures particle matter from diesel exhaust and turns it into inks and paints.On a break from his studies in the MIT Media Lab, Anirudh Sharma SM ’14 traveled home to ...

Remembering Yazeed Djamin
Composer/Indonesian renowned musical figure “To learn classical music, you have to study in school, no way around it…” ...

Glen Velez, Bang the Frame Drum
Frame Drum Maestro/Educator “I incorporate teaching into my creative process. Only when I feel that I am learning does my teaching feel successful.” ...

The Freedom of Taking Your Own Life
Suicide stories surround me everywhere – my colleague, two sisters in Bandung, a broken hearted man who filmed it live, a local social media celebrity, to international artists that surprises the whole ...

teamLab, 21st Century “Cave Painters”
[Jakarta, LTTW] There’s an online discussion going on at Listen to the World about environmental deterioration caused by human behavior and how we should respond. If we look upon what we’ve been ...

Loving Vincent
The World’s First Fully Oil-Painted Film[Jakarta, LTTW] “We cannot speak other than by our paintings” is a sentence from the last letter written by Vincent Van Gogh himself, which later inspired painter ...

Transcendental Evening with the Art Ensemble of Chicago
On Monday the 16th of October, a rather breezy autumn night in east London, the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) transforms Café OTO into a spiritual space, where the world’s sounds meet ...

Jeff Mills; Detroit, Dream, and Persistence
[Jakarta, LTTW] The majority of urban youngsters have a big interest in night-life clubbing and willing to spend their time and money on partying on weekend. Sing and dance to the electronic ...

Bambu Wukir
Lessons in Music and Courage from the Streets by Aryo Adhianto & Agung Waskito Some time ago, on a noon quite brightly lit by Jakarta’s sun, we had a chance to chat ...