Kim Sanders: Ethnic Music vs. Pop Music

SURAKARTA, MONDAY - Composer as well as world music pioneer origin Sydney, Australia, Kim Sanders, said that the diversity of instruments and the sound of ethnic music to create music that becomes more rich colors and beautiful music than pop, which is now be fancied by young people in various parts of the world.

"Music pop I is not too interesting. Music pop more synonymous with how the money from playing music as a process. Music by my tradition more than the rich pop music," said Sanders in Solo, on Monday (3 / 9).

Men who play a variety of ethnic musical instruments from different countries express this, the music tradition has become the art from generation to generation of fathers. Along with the development of the age, the music tradition does get a lot of party music that eventually expand music tradition itself.

"I enjoy playing many types of instruments and then mix and mixed it. What I do in Indonesia, Turkey, and many other countries, ethnic music because it is something that's attractive," said Sanders, who studied stage and in the Turkish, Balkan, west Africa, and China.

Sanders loved the music because the ethnic features various tools with a variety of sounds. That is according to him is not owned by pop music.

"In pop music, one can press one of the fingerboard and the sound of the same with the same keys on the piano is different. Meanwhile, in the ethnic music is not so. Music has many ethnic instrument sounds with a very rich," said Sanders, the who have worked with the same ethnic group music Sawung Jabo, GengGong fusion group, and Trio Dingo.

According to Sanders, ethnic musical instrument is far more interesting than the modern instrument such as guitar or piano that can be produced in the manufacturer. "Different places are different music concept, depending on where the growth. This is interesting. For example, in Indonesia, here is rich with musical instruments from bamboo and the gong. This is a traditional musical instrument and this is only in Indonesia, the United States no. Also, it is not produced in the factory as well as the modern instrument, "he said.

Sanders coming to Indonesia in order to represent Australia as one of the delegation Solo International Ethnic Music Festival and Conference 2007 (SIEMFC 2007).

SIEMFC 2007 is a musician in the greater the ethnic Indonesia which is also followed by musicians of the eight other countries (Netherlands, Iraq, Greece, Bangladesh, Korea, India, Philippines, and Australia). The event is being held at the Vastenburg Castle, Gladag, Surakarta. Activities that are intended to position ethnic music in the middle of the dynamics of modern culture that is now a youth direction and domination of pop music into the mainstream of the music industry of Indonesia.

"However, ethnic music will continue to grow in the rhythm, style, and sounds. The concept has also continued to grow and develop with the many influences that came from," said Sanders.