Music Fiesta with CDE Music, Jakarta

Dateline: Friday 21 November 2008

Today we head to Serpong, which is a little north west of Jakarta to Miriam Kuswanto's studio, CDE Musik. We arrive there early and already Miriam has prepared some cakes and coffee for us. Quite a number of her teachers are also there waiting for Wilson's workshop to begin. We wait for a little while for some more of her teachers to arrive and then begin the workshop. Again, we had some teachers prepare some pieces to perform for us. Here you can see Wilson explaining the finer points of technical atriculation to the teachers on the finer aspects of contemporary music.


At this workshop, Wilson also encourages teachers to take on a more proactive role as in performing along together with their students.

As we progress into the second part of the workshop, I take over and pull out the newly designed Rhythm game cards. We talked about the usage of these cards and what steps to take to initiate students into a session of simple composition.

As the game progresses, things get more tense and exciting for these teachers because a forfeit has been imposed on the unsuccessful ones.

Just before we break for lunch, we have our group teachers' photo session. As you can see how each of them is proudly showing off their certificates of participation.


After lunch, we come back to the Music Fiesta sessions for the afternoon. Today there has been no MPA arranged for me so it is just the students performing pieces from Christopher Norton or Pam Wedgwood. There are three sessions arranged for.

Session 1

Session 2

and finally session 3

The whole activity ended around 7 in the evening and we were already almost wiped out, but overall, it was a very good day for us and we would like to thank Miriam for having us at her studio. She has also been most supportive of all our Rhythm MP activities.