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SOUNDS OF NAKHON SAWAN:
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In Boon Pawed Festival, the sound of thumping beats and calming chants hold everything together. One of the most recognizable one is the Mandolin...
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At the Nora Rong Khru festival, the most striking sound has to be the Piphat ensemble and the distinctive singing. It feels as if you are under a spell. The music at a Nora festival is one of the key elements; beyond being beautiful, it adds an almost unbelievable layer of sacredness to the ritual. We never got the chance to talk to the musicians because they were playing all day, every day, late into the night. Even so, their energy never dropped. At one point it rained so hard the power went out, the sound system died, and they didn't even stop playing because the show must go on.
“I love the sound they make. It’s so satisfying to launch one.”
A young man told us after he finished tending to the gigantic Bang Fai when we asks “What’s the appeal?” And when the contest day arrives, the chemical fizzing sound they make rang in our ears for days, especially the Talai with it’s longer launch. It’s not hard to imagine why they are infatuated with them.
In this episode of #FLIBSound we explore the sound of the Bang Fai competition. The Excited yell of the announcers, the exciting atmosphere of the festival and the sound of the folk rocket that you can’t turn a blind eye or a deaf ear on even when they have launches close to a hundred of them.
A young man told us after he finished tending to the gigantic Bang Fai when we asks “What’s the appeal?” And when the contest day arrives, the chemical fizzing sound they make rang in our ears for days, especially the Talai with it’s longer launch. It’s not hard to imagine why they are infatuated with them.
In this episode of #FLIBSound we explore the sound of the Bang Fai competition. The Excited yell of the announcers, the exciting atmosphere of the festival and the sound of the folk rocket that you can’t turn a blind eye or a deaf ear on even when they have launches close to a hundred of them.
Different from the other festivals we’ve been to, the sound of Phi Ta Khon festival isn’t any instruments, but it’s the bell sound.
Amongst the chaotic soundscape of Phi Ta Khon festival that you can hear the music from the procession, the Bang Fai launching and the endless chatting of the crowd, every Ghost have their own sound of the bell from their belt, a chime that say in no word “We’re coming and you’re getting tricked.”