Showing posts with label Yakut. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 29, 2018

The books "Ivan Alekseev: the world of homusa is open to every person" and "Master vargana - the magical sound of the creator" | "Иван Алексеев: "Мир хомуса открыт каждому человеку" & "Мастера варгана – волшебного звука творцы"



Книга "Иван Алексеев: "Мир хомуса открыт каждому человеку"
"Ivan Alekseev: the world of homusa is open to every person"
Книга "Иван Алексеев: "Мир хомуса открыт каждому человеку", с 12-ю карточками - фотографиями изданий проекта "Мастера варгана - волшебного звука творцы" отправляются в Музей и Центр Хомусов народов Мира (г.Якутск) (IL Khomus) к его Президенту и основателю, хомусисту - виртуозу мира Ивану Егоровичу Алексееву. К сожалению типография перед Новым Годом немного подвела и подарок видимо приедет уже в новом году. 


The book " Ivan Alekseev: " the world of homusa is open to every person ", with 12 cards - photos of the editions of the project " Masters of vargana - the magical sound of the creators " are sent to the museum and the centre of the Yakutsk) (Il Khomus) to his president and founder, homusistu - virtuozu of the world Ivan Yegorovich Alexeyev. Unfortunately printing before the new year is a little failed and the gift is apparently coming in the new year.



Мастера варгана – волшебного звука творцы
"Master vargana - the magical sound of the creator"
Очередной тематический сборник, - издание проекта «Мастера варгана – волшебного звука творцы» представляет собой подборку статей по теме археологических варганов.
В сборнике собраны как полные тексты статей, так и выдержки из более крупных публикаций, посвященные обнаружению варганов в ходе археологических исследований. Речь в материалах сборника преимущественно идет о находках на территории бывшего Советского Союза (Прикамье и Поволжье, Центральная Россия, Алтай, Украина, Узбекистан, Приморье) и лишь одна известная статья японского исследователя посвящена японским варганам.
Это первый опыт подобного рода издания, в котором осуществлена попытка собрать под одной обложкой наиболее значимые русско-язычные публикации (лишь одна статья – О.Пашковского об украинских дрымбах публикуется в переводе с украинского языка) по теме археологических варганов.
Презентационный ролик, а также фрагмент издания в формате pdf доступный для просмотра и скачивания размещены на официальной странице издания: http://виктор-белов.рф/археологические-варганы-сборник-ста/


Another theme compilation - the edition of the project "Master vargana - the magical sound of the creator" is a compilation of articles on the subject of archaeological varganov.
The Collection is collected both full texts of articles and extracts from larger publications dedicated to the detection of varganov in archaeological studies. The content of the compilation is mainly about the find in the territory of the former Soviet Union (Prikamʹe and volga, central Russia, Altai, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, primorje) and only one famous article of the Japanese Explorer is dedicated to Japanese varganam.
This is the first experience of this kind of edition, which has attempted to collect under one cover the most meaningful Russian-language publications (only one article - o. Paškovskogo about Ukrainian drymbah is published in translation from Ukrainian language) on the subject of archaeological varganov.
The presentation video, as well as a fragment of the edition in PDF format available to view and download is posted on the official page of the edition, here.





see also: #KhomusWeekly Jew's Harp Newsletter: Burtsev: dynasty of masters of the Yakut khomus. Collection of articles, album of photos.



Авторский сайт Виктора Белова
Исследователь, краевед, генеалог, писатель

The author's site Victor Belov > website
Researcher, local historian, genealogist, writer

Friday, December 28, 2018

Burtsev: dynasty of masters of the Yakut khomus. Collection of articles, album of photos.


Книга, которую мы сейчас презентуем, первая в ряде книг, речь в которых идет именно о мастерах варгана, то-есть посвящена именно той тематике, изначально ставшей объектом нашего исследования и даже вынесена в название проекта. 
Думаю, не стоит пояснять, почему именно мастера якутского хомуса Николай Петрович и Николай Николаевич Бурцевы (Николай Бурцев) стали героями первого издания подобного рода. Для кого же этот вопрос требует разъяснения (да и для всех остальных) – все подробности об издании, презентационный видеоролик, а также фрагмент издания с вводными материалами, фрагментами статей, фотографиями и содержанием, доступный для просмотра и скачивания в формате pdf – размещены на постоянной странице издания на моем сайте.

Виктор Белов-Щусь posts (on Facebook): 
The book we are now present, the first in a number of books, which is about the masters of vargana, is dedicated to exactly the subject that has originally been the subject of our study and even put in the name of the project.

I guess not to explain why it was the masters of yakutsk homusa Nikolai Petrovich and Nikolai Nikolayevich Burcevy (Николай Burcev) became the heroes of the first edition of this kind. For whom the question requires clarification (yes and for everyone else) - all details about the edition, presentation video, as well as a fragment of the edition with input materials, fragments of articles, photos and content available to view and download in PDF format - posted on permanent Page Edition on the website, here.





Бурцевы: династия мастеров якутского хомуса. Сборник статей, альбом фотографий.

Burtsev: dynasty of masters of the Yakut khomus. Collection of articles, album of photos.


Бурцевы: династия мастеров якутского хомуса. Сборник статей, альбом фотографий. Сост. В.Белов. Елабуга, Издание Елабужского Отделения Русского Географического Общества, 2018. –  с.154
Burtsev: dynasty of masters of the Yakut khomus. Collection of articles, album of photos. Comp. V. Belov. Yelabuga, Edition of the Elabuga Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, 2018. - p.154



…Recently, in some publications, one has to meet the opinion that Russia is experiencing today a kind of “boom of the varganostroyeniya”, that everyone who is not too lazy, etc., is engaged in the production of harps. etc. Perhaps this is partly the trend, and there is a place to be, but in our opinion only partly. It is difficult to argue with the fact that among the masters - the Vargano-creators, occasional people do sometimes come across. If the latter are not taken into account, then the masters can be divided into:

- those who do it in pleasure, from time to time, and do not strive to make money on it;

- those who deal with this professionally as the main craft and make consistently good tools and

- those who treat this type of craft as a creative work, and from whose hands come out piece, exclusive products.

However, there is another category of vargan masters (khomus), which combines the best features of the above with the addition of its unique qualities. These are the masters whose merits make it possible to inscribe their names in the History. The history of world harpscreation. These masters, of course, include the dynasty of masters - manufacturers of the Yakut khomus - father and son Nikolai Petrovich and Nikolai Nikolaevich Burtsevs. Therefore, it is not by chance that these wonderful masters became the heroes of the first collection of the project “The Masters of the Vargan - the Magic Sound of Creators,” dedicated to the masters of the vargan, and not around all sorts of questions of the vargan theme…





see also: #KhomusWeekly Jew's Harp Newsletter: The books "Ivan Alekseev: the world of homusa is open to every person" and "Master vargana - the magical sound of the creator" Мастера варгана – волшебного звука творцы




Авторский сайт Виктора Белова
Исследователь, краевед, генеалог, писатель

The author's site, Victor Belov > website
Researcher, local historian, genealogist, writer



Tuesday, December 18, 2018

▶ Эркин Алексеев. Хомус Егора Тартакова. Erkin Alexeev. Tartakov's khomus jew's harp




Новый хомус Егора Тартакова (Сунтарский улус, Якутия).
Очень сочный, высокий звук. То, что я давно искал. При этом язычок инструмента лёгкий, не капризный.
Рекомендую)*
My new khomus made by Egor Tartakov. Very racy and high sound

* (google translate): New khomus of Egor Tartakova (Suntarsky Ulus, Yakutia).
Very juicy, high sound. What I have been looking for. At the same time the tongue of the tool is light, not capricious.
Recommend)

Эркин Алексеев. Хомус Егора Тартакова. Erkin Alexeev. Tartakov's khomus jew's harp - YouTube

Monday, June 4, 2018

Who is Olena Uutai? Britain’s Got Talent 2018 semi-finalist and Russian professional throat singer


When Simon Cowell asked her why she made the long trip to England for the show she replied "I want to share my culture with the rest of the world…"
OLENA Uutai is through to the semi-finals of Britain's Got Talent - but she might already have won the prize for most unique act.



"Olena Uutai's audition on Britain's Got Talent was aired on May 12, 2018…
"She then performed her throat singing routine in which she played the jaw harp (khombus) and made whinnying horse noise…"

…At first the judges seemed bemused by her act but by the end they were amazed and Alesha Dixon said: “I absolutely love you, you’re other worldly, you’re like a stallion goddess!”
Olena made it through to the next round and will perform in the live semi-finals. 
more: Who is Olena Uutai? Britain’s Got Talent 2018 semi-finalist and Russian professional throat singer

Saturday, March 31, 2018

▶ Вечернее настроение. Хомус. Evening mood. Khomus. Jew's harp. Эркин Алексеев. Erkin Alexeev



Вечернее настроение. Хомус. Evening mood. Khomus. Jew's harp. Эркин Алексеев. Erkin Alexeev - YouTube

Published on Mar 30, 2018 by Erkin Art

English below *

Я часто говорю людям, что в моем представлении в старину наши предки играли на хомусе чаще в пору вечерних сумерек. Конечно Маак писал о том, что некоторые якуты могли бренчать на этом инструменте целый день напролет, но думается таких бездельников было немного. Раньше существовало поверье, что с наступлением темноты на хомусе лучше не играть. Мол, это привлекает злых духов. Но в светлое время суток весь день у саха проходил в нескончаемой работе по хозяйству. И вот, после всех трудов, после вечерней трапезы каждый член семьи лежал на своей лавочке во тьме (так как маленькие окна якутского жилища и дневной-то яркий свет не особо пропускали), освещаемой только светом камелька. И тут кто-нибудь начинал грустно напевать о нелегкой жизни, или же брал хомус и всю свою усталость, нелегкие думы изливал в музыку хомуса. И души исполнителя и домочадцев легчали, светлели...


* google translate:

I often tell people that in my view in the old days our ancestors played on khomus more often during the evening twilight. Of course, Makak wrote that some Yakuts could scream on this instrument all day long, but I think there were few such idlers. Previously, there was a belief that with the onset of darkness on the khomus it is better not to play. Like, it attracts evil spirits. But during the daylight hours all day at the Sakha passed in endless work on the au pair. And now, after all the labor, after the evening meal, each member of the family lay on his bench in the dark (since the small windows of the Yakut dwelling and the day's bright light did not particularly miss), lit only by the light of the fireside. And then someone began to sing sadly about hard life, or take khomus and all his fatigue, hard thoughts poured into the music of khomus. And the souls of the performer and households were lightening, brightening ...

Erkin Art on Facebook

Saturday, March 3, 2018

▶ Maria Kulichkina - OLONKHO- 6th International Jew's Harp Festival



Maria Kulichkina - OLONKHO- 6th International Jew's Harp Festival- www.doromb.com - YouTube

Olonkho (Russian: Олонхо́, Sakha: Олоҥхо, Kazakh: Олонхо, Bashkir: Олонхо) is a heroic epic tale of the Yakuts and one of the oldest epic arts of the Turkic peoples. The term refers to the entire Sakha epic tradition as well as its central epic.
The Olonkho is still performed in the Sakha Republic. The poetic tales are performed by a singer and story-teller in two parts: a sung part in verse alternates with a prose part composed of recitatives. In addition to possessing good acting and singing skills, the narrator must be a master of eloquence and poetic improvisation. The epic consists of numerous legends about ancient warriors, deities, spirits and animals, but also addresses contemporary events, such as the disintegration of nomadic society. The Olonkhos, varying from 10,000 to 20,000 verses (or more) in length, are sung during a period of up to seven nights. "Nyurgun Bootur the Swift", the best-known, consists of more than 36,000 verses.
Given that each community had its own narrator with a rich repertoire, numerous versions of Olonkho circulated. The tradition was developed within the family context for entertainment and as a means of education. Reflecting Yakut beliefs, it also bears witness to the way of life of a small nation struggling for survival at times of political unrest and under difficult climatic and geographical conditions.
The political and technological changes in twentieth-century Russia have threatened the existence of the epic tradition in the Sakha Republic. Although there has been a growing interest in Olonkho since the Perestroika years, this tradition is endangered because of the very low number of practitioners.


Saturday, November 4, 2017

Не пропустите грандиознейшее событие этого года! Только один раз - концерт хомусистов-виртуозов мира! | 18 November, Yakutsk




Il Khomus​ shares this on Facebook (English below*):

Не пропустите грандиознейшее событие этого года! Только один раз - концерт хомусистов-виртуозов мира!

Спиридон Шишигин, Альбина Дегтярёва, Юлияна Кривошапкина и Ким Борисов соберутся вместе, чтобы подарить вам музыку, которая будоражит сердца людей всего мира. Им рукоплескали на лучших сценах планеты - и у вас лишь один шанс услышать их вместе.

18 ноября, 19.00 ч.

Дворец детского творчества г. Якутска.

Билеты 300-1000 руб.

Приобретайте в Музее хомуса.

г. Якутск, ул. Кирова, 31, 3-й этаж.

Тел. 8(4112)42-86-75



* Don't miss the grandioznejšee event of this year! Only once is a concert of the homusistov-Virtuosi World!

Spyridon Šišigin, Albina Gun, ûliâna krivošapkina and Kim Borisov will gather together to give you music that stirs the hearts of people around the world. They'll be on the best scenes of the planet, and you only have one chance to hear them together.

18 November, 19.00 a.m.

Palace of Children's Arts Yakutsk.

Tickets 300-1000 rubles.

Get at the museum museum.

G. Yakutsk, STR. Kirov, 31, 3th floor.

Tel. 8 (4112) 42-86-75





Il Khomus post on Facebook



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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Музей хомуса приглашает на музыкальный салон , 2 ноября | The museum of khomus invites you to the music salon , 2 November





Il Khomus posts: Музей хомуса приглашает на музыкальный салон.
(english below) *
В четверг 2 ноября в 18.00 ч. в Музее и Центре хомуса народов мира пройдет очередной музыкальный салон. На этот раз его тема посвящена участникам XIX Всемирного фестиваля молодежи студентов, прошедшего в октябре в г. Сочи. Трое хомусистов-участников Фестиваля: Эркин Алексеев, Анна Саввина и Алдан Рожин, познакомят зрителей с подробностями своего участия и исполнят номера на хомусе. Также зрителей поприветствует ансамбль “Алгыс” под руководством Ивана Егоровича Алексеева – Хомус Уйбаан, солисты которого принимали участие на XII ВФМС в г. Москве в 1985 г.
Цена билета 300 руб.
Справки по тел.: 8(4112)36-17-92


* The museum of khomus invites you to the music salon.
On Thursday, November 2, at 6 pm, the Museum and the Center of the Khomus of the Nations will host a regular music salon. This time its theme is devoted to participants of the XIX World Festival of Youth Students held in October in Sochi. Three khomusistov-participants of the Festival: Erkin Alekseev, Anna Savvina and Aldan Rozhin, will acquaint the spectators with the details of their participation and will perform the numbers on the khomus. Also the audience will be greeted by the ensemble "Algys" under the leadership of Ivan Yegorovich Alekseev - Khomus Uybaan, whose soloists took part in the XII WFMS in Moscow in 1985.
The ticket price is 300 rubles.
Information by phone: 8 (4112) 36-17-92

(post on Facebook) Khomus Weekly Jew's Harp Newsletter • #KhomusWeekly


Il Khomus

Museum and Center of Khomus on Facebook

Thursday, August 10, 2017

▶ Erkin Art ~ Эркин Алексеев. "Өбүгэ утума, иэйии ситимэ" & "Эркин Алексеев. Поздравление на хомусе / Erkin Alexeev. Gongrats on the khomus"





SEE ALSO
a conversation on Facebook regarding the Yakut solstice celebration – "Yhyakh"*
Erkin Art #KhomusWeekly :: #Хомус #jewsharp... - Khomus Weekly Jew's Harp Newsletter • #KhomusWeekly
* includes photos, videos and details thanks to Хомусчут Өндөрөй and Zoya I. Ivanova 

{regarding the structure}: Хомусчут Өндөрөй –
It is Sakha (Yakut) traditional calender, wooden desk with painted spiral, with holes for every day of the year, the tied plug is reentered next hole every morning. Represented as fence with poles and gates for months and seasons, the centre is huge shaman drum which in turn represents moon calender (31 horns round the frame), with worship temple (Urasa) on drum top.
...Besides, this calender also represents Sakha holy tree Al Luk Maas. Every year a big Olonkho Isiakh is being celebrated in another region, and the Tree is being constructed there. Usually it's a wooden carved construction...


http://maps.yandex.ru/?ll=129.3594%2C61.68739&z=17&l=sat 
Zoya I. Ivanova could help you with more detailed information about Sakha sacred matter, she even wrote a book exactly on Sakha calender.


Zoya I. Ivanova –

It's not simple to explain in short comment the ancient Faith and the astronomical knowledge of the Sakha people.

Basically, the calendar of the Sakha people, as well as their mythological World Tree - Aal Luuk Mas (the Axis of the World), had the up
per and lower worlds, and in the lower world in the representation of the Sakha people, even the Sun and all his inhabitants moved in the opposite direction. The account of days of the “dark” half of a month, under the decreasing Moon, in an ancient calendar of Sakha was kept in the opposite direction, the same way were estimated months in the “dark” half of a year.
So, necessary to look at the ancient calendar of the Sakha in 3D measurement, instead of in 2D (in flat).

The symbol of the World Tree – Sarga - ritual pole and the hitching post for the horse. 

Sarga that included in the ancient Sakha's calendar used in the ancient time as astronomical instrument - a sundial (gnomons). 
There are the proofs that the ancient northern people invented cosmic clock and a calendar many millennia ago.
It was developed by northern shepherds habitually used the circumpolar stars, seen every night rotating round the North Pole, as the night clock. They serve as the night timer for them until now. 
Ancestors of the Sakha people lived naturally and constantly feeling "the starry sky above their head and the moral law within them” (Immanuel Kant). It is possible to understand the scale of feelings of the person who has the live moving stellar sky as a dial of the hours. In such conditions, the relationship with the eternity, with the life and death, with ancestors and with moral purity had to be clear and daily. 
The stellar sky served the northern people as a clock, a compass and a calendar. 

Natural long observation of the shining stars in the dense darkness of the cold sky, at the annual rotation of the Big Dipper around a fixed Pole Star had to reproduce a swastika form in consciousness of ancient ancestors of people.
As far back as 1901, Zelia Nuttall recognized the role of the Big Dipper in the whirling logs or swastika design so common in American Indian artifacts. The review of her article “The Fundamental Principles of New and Old World Civilizations” from the Archaeological and Ethnological Papers of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, notes that Ms. Nuttall suggested that the swastika symbol was “believed to have originated in the revolution of the stars of Ursa Major about Polaris….”. A swastika which often meets in design of historical artifacts of American Indians, it is the image of the Big Dipper in its movement, round the Pole Star, within all four seasons of the year. The Big Dipper, according to the ancient Mississippians, is part of a great Astronomical Bird - birds, a snake and an elk, who met together in spinning round the Portal of Heavens, round the Creation Cave. 

As we see, the Sakha people related with the American Native people not only genetically, but also with this universal symbol of infinity and the movement of space, a force and an creation, a fertility and a creative potentiality. The word 'swastika' in translation from a Sanskrit means 'wellbeing’.
The symbol of a swastika is known from time immemorial and in cultures of many people means the Absolute. Other symbol of the Absolute is the World tree - our native Sarga - Aal Luuk Mas or the Axis of the World. 


You can find more in my book here:
"Sakha’s Sarga, Totem Pole and Stone Age Megaliths are from ‘One Family’: The Life of the Yakut (Sakha) Family ...Stories of Great-Grandmother"

or here




SEE ALSO:

Sakha Culture / Yakutia @ #KhomusWeekly - YouTube PLAYLIST

Saturday, June 24, 2017

▶ Instructional videos playlist | UUTai series & more



instruction playlist at #KhomusWeekly Youtube channel

this playlist currently includes the first 6 videos of Olena Podluzhnaya's instructional series, as well as 5 videos by Varvara Stepanovas. these are all of the Yakut style of play. this list will grow and include others as well! -- for now, at the end, the only other video is by Bebbcorp Harpery.


Wednesday, June 14, 2017

▶ vargan B M T



vargan B M T - YouTube
Published on Jun 6, 2017 by 69afin
1 Якутский хомус Тарабукина; 2 Байкал Венгерский дормб Силади ; 3 Якутский хомус Мальцева.

added to playlist "#KhomusWeekly 02"

Thursday, March 30, 2017

▶ Khomus player Fiodorova Natalia - YouTube



Khomus player Fiodorova Natalia - YouTube
Uploaded on Jul 18, 2009 by jewsharper
   
Fiodorova Natalia is nominated as "charming sounds khomus player" on competition "Khomus Kuo" in Jakutsk in 2009.
Федорова Наталья номинирована как "хомусист чарующих звуков" на конкурсе «Хомус Куо 2009» в Якутске.






more on #KhomusWeekly Jew's Harp Newsletter: Fiodorova Natalia

▶ Udagan | Saydyy Kuo Fedorova



Udagan is an international ethnographic music fusion group. Udagan in it’s native language translates to ‘She-Shaman’. The music of Udagan as an entity captures the rich shamanistic universe of the far North inside a musical universe spanning tens of thousands of miles and reaching back millenia, into places existing on the edges of understanding.


The core of Udagan is Saydyy Kuo Fedorova from the North Russian Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Oscar South, a contemporary performer and music creator in the UK.Saydyy Kuo is a specialist of the unique Sakha instrument ‘Khomus’ as well as a master of diverse Sakha vocal styles. She has brought these elements together and forged them into a precise vision, making an international impact through her performance which captures not just the essence of it’s origin, but also the imagination of it’s audience.
more: Udagan - UNIVERSE


Thursday, March 2, 2017

Vargan, Khomus, and Kubyz – the Russian jaw harp landscape is in motion / The DAN MOI Jaw Harp Blog ♫ • ARTICLE with VIDEOS

Vargan, Khomus, and Kubyz – the Russian jaw harp landscape is in motion

Russia is a country with a handful of jaw harp traditions: in Sakha/Yakutia, in the Altai, and in Tuva the Khomus (or Komus) is played; in Bashkortostan the Kubyz is known, and in Western Russia and in the big cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg one can hear the name Vargan. The different terms already indicate diverse cultural links of the instrument. Since the 2000s more and more people remember these instruments again after the mouth harps had been forgotten for many decades. Now several hundreds of people in Russia are extensively engaged with this instrument, and it might be thousands who at least once held a Vargan, Khomus, or Kubyz in their hand. Furthermore there are many mouth harp artisans who produce excellent instruments. These are reasons enough to have a more intensive look at the Russian scene..

READ: Vargan, Khomus, and Kubyz – the Russian jaw harp landscape is in motion / The DAN MOI Jaw Harp Blog ♫ (VIDEOS)


Tuesday, September 27, 2016

5 октября в 21:00 в клубе Матэ



UPDATE: see video at #KhomusWeekly Jew's Harp Newsletter: Спиридон Шишигин, клуб Мате, Москва, 05.10.2016 | Spiridon Shishigin, Club Mate, Moscow, 05.10.2016

via Olga Prass on Facebook –

Уже совсем скоро!
В среду, 5 октября в 21:00 в клубе Матэ. Лестева 19, к.2 (метро Шаболовская) будем играть для вас =)
Приходите послушать варганы и попить, заваренный самым лучшим и правильным образом аргентинский матэ!
Already very soon!
On Wednesday, October 5 at 21:00 in the club mate. Lesteva 19, k. 2 (Metro Shabolovskaya) we'll play for you =)
Come hear it vargany zavarennyy and something to drink, the best and most correct way argentinian maté!


Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Хомут АРКТИКА – new #khomus from Николай Бурцев (Nikolai Burtcev)

Хомут АРКТИКА
"Khomus ARCTIC"




on Facebook: 21 сентября 2016 г.


bonus –

Хомус БЛАГОСЛОВЕНИЕ СОЛНЦУ
"Khomus BLESSING THE SUN"



on Facebook: 21 сентября 2016 г.

Хомусчут Андрей АЛГЫС http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdGvoW66-G4See Translation

Фильм о тенгрианском обряде алгыс во время кумысного праздника ысыах. (Использованы материалы ысыаха в с. Техтюр, Орто Дойду Хангаласского улуса и др., Респу...
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