{"id":715,"date":"2010-03-28T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/?page_id=715"},"modified":"2023-10-06T22:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T03:58:36","slug":"shocking-asia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/shocking-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

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I received a grant in the 90s for a vague project having something to do joining sounds I intended to record in Asia with photos I intended to take and stories I’d try to tell.\u00a0 It all fell apart, or, more precisely, never came together.\u00a0 However, as part of this I interviewed friends, guides, and faculty associated with the Naropa Institute’s<\/a> study abroad programs in Bali and Nepal and during my own travels pre and post-program.\u00a0 (I was the program’s occasional\u00a0 “Director of Health and Well Being<\/a>” from 1985-1997.) \u00a0As part of my grant, I spoke to people about music, local deities, and black magic.<\/p>\n

Wayne Vitale<\/a> and his wife are well-known ethnomusicologists and gamelan players in Bali. \u00a0They know the island as few others do. \u00a0Keith Dowman<\/a> is a scholar, writer, and dzogchen meditation teacher who lives in Nepal.\u00a0 Fred Eiseman<\/a> wrote the quintessential book on Balinese customs “Bali: Sekala and Niskala.”\u00a0 John Butt<\/a> was my Southeast Asian Studies teacher at Macalester college; my wife and I went to visit him after he had moved back to Chaing Mai to teach at Payap University<\/a>.\u00a0 I recorded the dogs when I was walking home one night, north of Ubud, in Bali; they seemed to me to be barking in time with distant gamelan music.\u00a0 Pak Sumandhi<\/a> was my drum teacher in Denpasar.\u00a0 I recorded the comments of guides I hired to take me around Pashipatinath and other sacred sites in Nepal, Burma, India and Tibet (“This is the sacrifice temple…”).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Movie\n\t\t\n\t

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