This voyage began in the middle of the 1990's in Moscow, when a group of
artists and musicians led by Alexei Tegin and based at the legendary
Fabrique of Cardinal Art commenced their studies of traditional ritual
music, drifting away from the field of contemporary electroacoustic
and industrial music with the intent to delve deeper into the ancient
musical cultures of the ancient Egypt, Iran and Tibet.
The original 2003 lineup of the project that emerged as a result was
dubbed Phurpa (one of the five tutelary deities of the Father Tantra
in Bon tradition), and all the members have carried on with their
research in the field of Bon and Buddhist liturgies up to the present
day.
Before Buddhism reached Tibet, local people had practiced involved shamanic
rites derived from various ancestral cults. Later on, circa the VI-IX
century AD, a conflict between the local tradition, namely, the
pre-Buddhist religion of Bon (which originates from Central Asia) and
Tantric Buddhism (hailing from the North of India) gave birth to a
unique cultural phenomenon known as Tibetan Buddhism, which combines
an extensive metaphysical corpus and an advanced philosophical system
with pristine ceremonial practices that reach down through many
centuries.
In the X-XI century AD the monastic ensemble came into being. It has
got a lot in common with the Chinese court ensembles of the Tang
dynasty; nevertheless, the Tibetan ceremonial ensemble has preserved its authenticity and kept a
large number of primordial elements stemming from the ancient
Tibeto-Burmanese music intact to this day. A typical ensemble usually
includes a pair of nga drums, several rolmo cymbals and a pair of
gyaling oboes, as well as telescopic dunchen horns, dunkar shells and
short wandun horns.
One of the unique features of the Tibetan monastic choir is a specific
kind of overtone chanting, called "rgyud-skad", or the Tantric voice,
which is based on the principle of the singer's transmogrification
during the so-called "chanting meditation".
The ritual Tibetan instruments as used by the ensemble include the
following: dunchen, gyaling, silnyen, bub, damaru, kanling, nga,
shang.
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В СРЕДУ 27 МАЯ В КЛУБЕ ВЫПУСКНИКОВ МГУ В 19-00 БУДЕТ ПРОВОДИТЬСЯ ФОТО-ВЫСТАВКА и ВИДЕО-ИНСТАЛЛЯЦИЯ АЛЛАНА РАННУ "ТЕЛЕГРАММЫ НА НЕБО ИЛИ В ПОИСКАХ НЕБЕСНОГО ПОЛЮСА"
Фильм называется "В Поисках небесного полюса" снят в Камбодже, музыка группы "Пхурпа" - это ансамбль тибетского обертонного пения - и моя. Это кусочек проекта, посвящённого чаяниям людей, культовым артефактам и молитвам, которые рассматриваются как попытка вырваться из обыденности к разным формам взаимодействия с миром невидимым. Есть такое мнение, что именно наблюдение за звёздным небом выработало у человека способность к абстрактному мышлению - или, по крайней мере, способствовало развитию такового.
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