“BE YOURSELF” (The Creation of a Music Composition)

Abstract

An artistic workmanship is a creative process of the artist in creating artwork. The artwork created is entitled "Be Yourself," which is related to the establishment of self-characters of the writer who grew up in Sundanese culture. However, the life journey has brought the writer to be urang sumando (people related by marriage) in Minangkabau. Being in these two diff erent cultural positions, Sunda and Minang, the writer have cross-cultural experiences. Having these cultural diff erences do not automatically make the writer soluble in integration in two diff erent conceptions of cultures. In this paper, the writer off ers the concepts of these cross-cultural experiences that are able to off er something diff erent which can contribute to the development of art creation. The discussion in this article is the artistic forms as media for the exploration, materials for creation, and forms of performance.

A Comparative Study of Playing Patterns on Gambang and Ranat Ek Instruments

“…Cengkok is one of the most frequently used terms to refer to the wasp pattern in karawitan. Cengkok is a configuration of tones and/ or rhythms that have been determined in length, usually one gatra, or multiples, or half, or throughout one sentence of a short song (Haris et al, 2017;Supanggah, 2009;Widodo & Suharto, 2017). It can be concluded that the basic pattern of tabuhan Gambang garap cengkok ajeg is a wasp pattern that processes musical elements such as tone configurations and or rhythms with a certain length that is fixed or repeated so that a beautiful composition is formed.…”