The Khmer Rouge Tribunal Brought to you by… Microsoft?
Yes, it’s true.
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_8423-Microsoft-Becomes
-First-Private-Donor-For-Khmer-Rouge-Trials.html
It’s a well intentioned move. However…
If there are numerous lag times, frequent error messages or the whole trial needs to reboot, this explains a fair bit.
More info? There’s a multitude of sites covering the trial:
http://www.dccam.org/
http://www.yale.edu/cgp
http://www.krtrial.info/(Khmer/English)
http://www.cambodia.gov.kh/krt/
http://www.eccc.gov.kh
http://trialsanddenials.blogspot.com
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Books on TV
The Federation for the Development of the Book Sector in Cambodia (say that three times fast) has a TV advert about reading coming soon to a television near you! Looks like CTN will be the first to broadcast the spot.
And the first issue of the Book Federation’s newsletter is out – in Khmer, French and English. (Whew.) Congratulations to both teams.
Available at the National Library or the Federation’s Showroom.
Contact: bookfederation [via] online [dot] com [dot] kh
148 Norodom Boulevard, Phnom Penh.
023 726 414.
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Instrumental
Note the labels on this roneat - they’re Western music notes. Him Sophy, working with Cambodian Living Arts, has created some hybrid instruments for their Cambodian-American Opera project. Below is a slightly revised gong vong thom.
Cambodian music has no notation system, and is taught orally. There has some academic writing (notably Him Sophy, Sam-Ang Sam) and last year Reyum published Keo Narom’s book on the topic. Retired professor Mao Phoeung is also compiling an extensive Encyclopedia of Khmer music.
Generally if you say ‘opera’ I’ll stifle a yawn. (If you say ‘Andrew Lloyd Webber’ I’m out the door.) But I’m impressed with what the team is assembling, given the technical challenges of overseas collaboration. How do you email information halfway around your world to musical partners? MP3s are pretty bulky. They’ve set up a system to email simple musical notation files (customized for these instruments) which makes it much easier.
I’m looking forward to checking out the final product, which will premiere this year.
Sounds like these guys are having fun!
(Photos (c) Cambodian Living Arts, cheers!)
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In the tradition of 400 year-old European coffee-house culture,
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to provide a centre for social dialogue.
Our minimalist interior provides a perfect frame for
performances and exhibitions by Cambodian & international artists.
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from: What’s On
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Local Color
Finally got around to seeing the much-touted Rodin exhibit at Phnom Penh’s National Museum this last weekend. It’s going to continue through the end of February so you’ve got some time to check it out.
For three bucks, it lived up to the hype.
One hundred years ago, the sculptor became fascinated by a troupe of Cambodian dancers visiting France and followed their travels, producing a series of sketches. The color drawings are kept in a special climate-controlled room and accompanied by photographs of the encounter, which is a story in and of itself.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/29/features/rodin.php
If you’ve heard someone ‘thinking out loud’, this must be ‘drawing out loud’. The artist was grappling to depict an unfamiliar but fascinating series of movements, and you can really sense his enthusiasm to record it on paper. Some sketches are fully colored and well rendered, others just focus on a face or a moving limb.
(More images at http://www.khmerinstitute.org/rodin/rodin.html)
Meanwhile, over at ‘The Comics Reporter‘, Tom Spurgeon reviews Lorenzo Mattotti’s Angkor.
For about $40 a copy can be yours from Carnets d’ Asie. Mattotti has to have one of the most vivid color senses of the current crop of European cartoonists. The volume follows the French trend of lavishly illustrated travel memoirs – readers just can’t seem to get enough of them. English translation is in the works. (I’ll splash out for one when I win the lottery.)
And as regards travel, comic artist Lisa Mandel (Sept Mois au Cambodge) will visit in February to do another comic/travel book with students from Phare art school. More news to come.
Review: http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/cr_reviews/7194/
More Mattotti: English (via robot): http://tinyurl.com/y6x76w
French: http://www.auracan.com/Indiscretions/2004/20040227.html
Postscript 13/01/06: Penny Edwards on the Rodin Exhibition
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/TXT/current/stories/1601/how.htm
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