Karinding, a lot of people who do not know more about the Sundanese traditional musical instrument of this. according to the description of a wide variety of media and the internet karinding referred to as a tool of the game, association or musical instruments used by farmers to accompany the activity of planting and at the time of the harvest season played to repel pests in the fields.
Karinding is a traditional musical instrument sound vibrate and hum is estimated to have existed since the sixth century ago. Karinding according to the language consisting of the words Ka Ra Da Hyang which means accompanied by the prayer of the Almighty. Or there is also a deciphering Ka=source and Rinding= sound so that the source of the sound.
In other regions in Indonesia there are musical instruments a kind of karinding with a wide variety of names and how to play it different like Riding (Cirebon), Rinding (Central Java), Genggong (Bali), Slober (Lombok), Pikon (Papua), Dunga (Sulawesi), Karindang (Kalimantan), Sagasaga (Sumatra). And there are also a few places outside the country named the jewsharp.
According to the Faith Rahman Anggawiria Kusumah (40) or more familiarly called Kimung, which is one of the members of the rock music in the City of Bandung, before becoming the musical instruments of agriculture there is a long process that he went through. Karinding was created to be the guidelines for the management of nature and the environment.
This philosophy is still held until now by karinding. In it there are the norms of the divinity, humanity, community, there is the law of time, the law establishes the state, then determine the demographics of the population.
“Because karinding this guideline people to manage nature and the environment, then he should have inherited,” he said when met ayobandung.com on the sidelines of the process of project recordings compilation album of karinding with her friends in the room music studio Bandung Creative Hub Jalan Laswi No.7, The City Of Bandung.
Time immemorial, karinding the first time given to a small child, with the hope of the children already understand vibrate and hum generated by karinding the background of the initial management of nature and the environment. For a small child karinding only be a tool kaulinan (the game) only.
When they get older, they start through the period of puberty and karinding used as a tool of musical promiscuity among young subjects to attract the opposite sex with his unique voice, which can be the allure. When they got married then had a house, rice paddies and fields that’s where the karinding into a musical instrument agriculture then coloring activity to their lives, which incidentally is a farmer.
“All three of these functions, kaulinan, promiscuity, and instruments of agriculture appears expressions-an expression of aesthetic if you for example want to date a girl using a special tone, and if is safe rewarded with a special tone also, the patterns of the aesthetic that later became patterns of musical,” he explained.
Era now according to Kimung that come to the surface that karinding as an expression of the aesthetic and function-a function that was already lost due to the natural conditions and environment has changed.
“Be kaulinan barudak not, the association also not because now it’s the advanced people invites to play live send WA, and agriculture also not because agriculture mah ga pake karinding, so more to the expression aesthetically pleasing, contrived so some music, contrived songs, performances, production of science and others,” said Kimung.
When talking with ayobandung.com, Kimung explain there’s a very deep philosophy contained in the instrument of karinding which makes it one of the only musical instrument in the world that the way to play it ditabeuh (hit). According to him, the Sundanese people believe that the universe is formed through the process of the big bang (theory of bigbang), but there are natural not much discussed by the science theorized bigbang this.
In the Sundanese community trust yourself there is a natural blank according to the fairy tale batara Guru in the puppet world where nature koson is suddenly vibrated then melahrikan buzzing noise then clash and it came to pass life.
”Well the life of this right should be maintained and people try to understand this life from the sound of the hum of it. Note how the spirituality of the person-time immemorial they cultivate sura drone that exist in their body, like the sound of the hmm, hoam it begetardi the head and oral cavity. When it is done in a repeated and familiarized limbic brain behind the open and in these conditions the man reached the level of ecstasy,” he said.
In addition, alat musik Karinding with the form of simply consists philosophy confident, patient, mindful.
“Hold it with sure, as patiently when sound then we must realize that it is not our voice. Da sound of our mah’t like it” he said.
Philosophy confident, conscious, patient still according to Kimung if used as a guideline is a representation of the three parts of the geopolitics of the mountain. In the Sundanese language there is a term leuweung larangan (forests as source), leuweung cover (forest as a backup) and leuweung baladahan (the forest as a place to gardening and farming).
In the process leuweung experiencing a phase-fasae very long time until the process is finished. And after leuweung, there’s a river that is divided into three, namely trance walungan, trance susukan, and sanghyang solokan. The land and the water is become a forest and a river.
When everything is arranged then set into a country, there is a category of small country that only has one eye water, the state is with two mat water are interconnected and a large state which has more than two springs each other relating to dumping in the oceans.
This is where a country is determined the amount of the country based on the distance between leuweung larangan, leuweung cover and leuweung baladahan. The indicator is where a country has over the population and not appropriate then leuweung baladahan will take leuweung cover, and will take also leuweung cover then there is a disaster.
“Well so leuweung the ban on the place of spirituality, then it must be held with sure, leuweung cover the place of science then it must be conscious, and leuweung baladahan or leuweung production place of business then should wait” he explained.
From the philosophy that the norms of the divinity, humanity, society, the law of time, the law establishes the state, then determine the demographics of the population, and therefore karinding is not just a musical instrument but also as a guideline for the management of nature and the environment.
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