Kecak (Monkey Chant)
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2011
- The 2010 student body of the music department - approximately 68 high school students attending the Governor's California State Summer School for the Arts - perform a Balinese Kecak. Leader: Cliff DeArment; Singer: Maria Bodmann; Videographer: Rychard Cooper
This is absolutely f******* amazing and beautiful. I'm not a uber connoisseur in the kecak matter, but this is the tightest I've seen to date. Congratulations.
Thanks so much for your kind comment! We worked hard but at some point the energy takes over and is completely contageous! :-)
with all the due respect this isn't the highest. this is better
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as a balinese, i really proud that you did one of our dance in the US. well, the clothes are not accurate tho. but besides that, you performed it well. you, sir, deserve a like!
you too deserve a like :)
Well, we love your cultural art! And I for one wish it was easier to get the loincloths, lol
Hope to learn it..but I m in Msia
It's good to see this dance being appreciated internationally.
whoa i didn't expected the pronunciation would be that accurate
Thank you - we lived in Bali a long time ago, studied hard, and try to share what we know :-)
good,, keep up the goodwork mate!! :))
thanks for showing our culture abroad,
Forgot to mention, a word of advise for the performing students: next time, try not to spoil all the effect the dance had over you. Just imagine how it would have felt if, at the end of the dance, instead of bursting into cheers and applause, you would have kept at least 10 seconds of silence.
This is America, where we appreciate different cultures, and practice their beauty! war, racism, and destruction are mutations.
Absolutely incredible job!!
I've heard the original recordings and this group just knocks it out of the park!! Wonderful job, bravissimo!!!
This piece holds a huge healing power. I saw it live in a Balinese temple in Ubud, performed by Men. I saw it somewhere else on UA-cam performed by Balinese Male singers & dancers again. I now I see it here performed by Western Men & Women... and it still holds and vibrates that healing power. The power is in the sound, voice, movement and intention. Best detach from labels everywhere else it's possible, if you feel like this should belong only in certain places. Respectfully. I enjoyed this video very much 😊 thank you!
fr. humans heal when we remember community. individualism is one of the biggest scourges
Ponniyin selvan 🔥🔥
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@@beyonpius5082 Tamil movie ponniyin Selvan team used this music in song
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Wonderful that the Kecak is being shared with high school students. I have been to Bali many times and this made me smile and want to travel again.
Im from Bali and i love your perform so much!
Thank you Thank you!!! It was so fun and energy filled...
thank you for studying our culture :)
We have Jason. We also studied Central Javanese gamelan and teach / share it with students in Los Angeles! I will upload a video of Central Javanese Gamelan played by California h.s. students. Sundanese music is one of my favorites, especially Degung and Kecapi Suling! There's a fantastic suling player up in San Jose, it's too bad that's not commutable from L.A. Thanks for the comments!
The "solo" type lyrics are improvised - the singing are imitating sounds of the gamelan and the "cak" sounds are the interlocking patterns. It's not written out. Thanks for the kind words :-)
Our next generation of business executives.
im aproud of my culture
mr bungle moment
Oh wow. I went to CSSSA/InnerSpark in 1999 and 2000. Such fond memories of this song. Much love to you and Cliff and Rychard. I stumbled across this video in my brainstorming for a vocal/body percussion workshop I'll be teaching at a festival this summer. Hugs! -Ashley Wright
That's so amazing and beautiful omgggg!!!! I'd LOVE to do that with my high school!
So happy you enjoyed it! Where are you? We might be able to come to your high school and teach it!!!
Maria Bodmann
Hello, I hope you're doing good :)
Oh.. It would be so great.. but.. you know, I live in France.. on the south :(
I'm so sad because this is amazing, and you can't come to France.. there's nothing like this in my high school.
Keep doing what you do, you're so nice :)
Thanks Darren, we LOVE to share it wherever and with whomever is interested in it. It makes me smile too and want to travel too :-)
Ngl this is so awesome. I used to dance kecak and this is very accurate to the dance lm great job mate!
Impresionante, que belleza, gracias.
beautiful. I want that school of arts in my country.
wowwwwww amazing you doing perfect....!!!!
that was just quality, respect.
cultural appropriation
Hi Ashley!!! Much love to you back - nice to hear from you - hope your festival is going / went well... :-)
really nice :P everyone commits this was better than i expected
Bali, Indonesia! 😄
Woii Semetons mai mulih ke Bali😊
Absolute Fun!
Thank you Santoso Khasan!
I came here after Tamil movie Ponniyin Selvan song “Devaralaan aatam”
Love it ✨
that's really awesome.. great to see this video
MaKasih banyak Surya! we LOVED doing it!
Maria Bodmann im waiting for the new one of the amazing art that you make
Thanks Surya :-) I'll have one experimental video soon and then a video of America: The Reality Show - a political satire about the current government of the USA in shadows...
Maria Bodmann umzz.. that sounds amazing.. im waiting for those video, im wondering
Monkey chant comes from Ramayanam, epic of Indian tale!
I wonder if humans feel attracted to this type of music because it’s like some ancient instinct stuff? Like thousands of years ago when tribes of hunter gatherers would do this did of in some plains. It makes you feel a sense of togetherness. Like safety and comfort within the people. Idk I’m probably just high as shit
Best cover 😅❤
How long did it take you guys to remember the movements and chants?
waw.....
i lov indonesia
I am so impressed :) is there a way to get liricks for this chant? or is this taught without liricks??? How can I teach a group this. So amazing and inspiring :)
my culture 😆
I do too Arjuna Juna! very very much :-)
I want to earn a gym credit for this.
The Ramayana "myth" was actually added by Walter Spies, from Europe, in the 1930's. The original kecak has no such story.
A M A Z I N G.......
Thanks so much Aditya Wiranatha! I love your island and culture!!! Rick Patrick - it's my absolute PLEASURE to study your culture :-). Tino Trivino - ain't that the truth...
it was amazing
if I was there I was ready to become Hanuman to complete
well done!
Thank loki0840!
Nice..
4.24 Very Jazzy
Wow....I like this a lot. Recent Tamil movie has these touch in it. Check out Devaralan Aatam song
The form deprived of the myth. A symbol of American society.
I would love to do this at my high school, do you think we could connect somehow? I am afraid of not doing it authentically...
wa moy angay
Bali.
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Sorry, I wasn't the editor, perhaps I can get the full version from him and re-upload...
en dat ter ere van sun wukong[the eternal ape]
What does it say about me if I find this to be the most incredible thing I've ever seen? This is beyond mesmerising.
Watch the one from the film bakara you will be stunned
I love flash mobs! =D
like it,.hhahah kreatife
This looks and sounds a lot more like what I saw in the late 50's than the dozens of touristized performances out in youtube land. On the other hand, the costumes in this one do seem to be not quite authentic. And the one I remember had at least twice as many performers.
i u n d e r stand
Devaralan Aatam - Ponniyin Selvan!
Try Javanese and Sundanese Culture also, Its a sweeet culture and music
I watched the entire sequence, congrats, very nice for Westerners!
Genesis Gaia thank you - the energy was there! Glad you liked it!
1:25 soft cut in the middle of when it gets good!? bad form, editor!
The sheer awesomeness of the performers saved this vid from a thumbs down - dislike.
indonesian cultur👍
It could only be better if they broke into Bohemiem Rhapsody, half way through 🤔🤔
wait, THAT'S what CSSSA stands for?
Not sure what you mean. Kecak is a ritual chant from Bali, used in prior times. It doesn’t STAND for anything but itself and cultural significance.
@@mariabodmannread my comment again, the beginning of the video says 'california state summer school of the arts, or CSSA, which is what I mentioned in my comment. I know what Kecak is. I went to CalArts (i actually took the Kecak and different gamelan classes there) and a lot of my friends did CSSSA, but i just realized I never knew what it stood for.
goatisdemen ah ok, this was a performance by the 2010 CSSSA Music students. It was part of the California State Summer School For The Arts (CSSSA) while my partner Cliff and I taught there. So Kecak was a part of it but kecak doesn’t stand for CSSSA. Hope that’s clear now. 😀
@@mariabodmann lol right, i was talking about what CSSSA itself stood for, not Kecak
goatisdemen Hahahaha 🤣
For some reason, this seems more authentic that the kecak performed by indigenous balinese people. But then again, nowadays they are performing only four tourists. Tourists are quite a plague, they kill everything authentic in a culture.
i now and talk about the pollution they leave fucking assholes
It depends on where in Bali you watched the performance. I saw the 1.5 hours version which included many of the chanting here and even more narrations in Balinese, the touristy one is in Uluwatu cos most people will find the original one too long and full of chants and narratives.
I sampled the original chant if you wanna check it out, link is below
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Who else came from Tetris Effect Ritual Passion?
That is extremely cool, but isn't it supposed to be depicting a battle?
Hallie Chandola actually originally it was a 3 day ritual when there were huge problems in a village... It was made into a tourist performance (which included the Monkey Battle from the Ramayana) so that it wasn't lost...
this is not a proof for the hairy ball theorem
A shame it's just Governor's School kids doing this.
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Amazing, I wonder if there's an SJW somewhere shrieking "CULTURAL APPROPRIATION" lol, anyway this is an amazing performance