Chalwanka

Friday afternoon, when entering from the parking lot on the third floor Atrium Senen, from underneath the sound blaring instrumental music with melodies that sound different from what we usually hear.

Looked down briefly does not see on performances of music, which was only many visitors. But after observed a moment before seemed look of people who formed a half circle, which was the visitors who were watching the performances of ethnic music from the Andes mountains.

Because of the size of the stage is only about one-half and two meters with height less than 20 cm, where the musicians who perform solo and audience alike in a standing position, plus the floor was also crowds of visitors who tend to be uneven, resulting in no there are significant differences between them when seen only briefly.

Chalwanka is the name of the music group that plays a musical instrument called zampona. Zampona is a wind instrument that originated from Latin America or cylindrical tube with holes that are closed at one end and usually consist of 5 or more tubes. Can be made from bamboo, wood or other materials. The resulting sound is very distinctive.

Chalwanka actually consists of two people, but at that time only one who performed and recorded with only the accompaniment of instrumental music he plays the melody with zampona.

Besides watching the captivating music game there is one other lesson can be learned from here, which is about the architecture, which is associated with a space and place. That humans unwittingly or even regulated has a tendency to form a circle when they watch a show or something that is the center of attention. And as we all know that the circle does have something called the center or axis.

So do not be surprised if the Colosseum, the Amphitheater, or any places where the show usually takes the forms of circles, either in the form of a quarter, half, elliptical, up to a full circle.

| March 28, 2010 | samidirijono | arsitek |