NUS Angklung Ensemble (NUSAE) held its third annual musical camp on 2-4 December 2015. This event was designed to prepare the members for the forthcoming performances and strengthen the ties amongst them. In addition, the camp concurrently served as an efficacious stress reliever for the members, who had just completed their final examinations.
Angklung practice has always been the crux of NUSAE camp. On each practice session, the songs which had been learnt were reviewed. Not only was the review useful for the members to rejuvenate their memories after several weeks of regular practice lacuna due to examination preparation, it also gave them the valuable opportunity to inculcate and internalise the songs. There were 5 (five) practice sessions throughout the camp, each of which lasted for around two hours.
Collaboration and cooperation amongst members is a prerequisite for harmonious angklung performances, whence maintaining and intensifying inter-member bond is of foremost importance. A series of exhilarating and invigorating games was organised on the last two days after the practice sessions for team building purpose.
Barbeque was the pinnacle of the whole camp, through which the members got the chance to better know each other. The perfect ambience successfully piqued their gregarious side to collectively cook the food, willingly share stories, and spontaneously tell random jokes. Through this peak event, the idea that NUSAE is a home and a place rather than a house and a space was indirectly embedded in each of the members.
We hope that this event reinforces the members’ sense of acceptance and belonging to NUSAE as well as enhances their skills, and we are committed to arranging more interesting camps in the future.
On 4th April 2015, NUS Angklung Ensemble proudly held its annual concert with the title: The Chronicle. The concert itself was situated at NUS Utown Auditorium 2 from 7 pm – 9 pm. In this concert, NUS Angklung Ensemble presented the audience with songs from 60s until 00s. Thus, The Chronicle concert brought a journey through time for the audience. There were 13 songs performed in this performance and each songs were popular during their respective era.
We started off the day with final preparations such as full run and tech run from 1 pm until 4 pm. As hours passed, we became more excited and nervous for this performance as this is the biggest NUS Angklung Ensemble concert ever. The concert itself was quite successful as we managed to attract 130 people including Representative of Indonesian Embassy in Singapore, Mr. Ismunandar and Manager of OSA, Ms. Lyana Wang. We were happy that we have delivered one great performance to the audience and hope we can see you again in the next NUS Angklung Concert 2016!
From 19th – 20th March 2015, NUS Ankglung Ensemble held our NUS 2015 Roadshow at NUS Central Library and Utown Stephen Riady Centre from 3pm – 7pm. The purpose of this roadshow is to promote and attract people to get to know the upcoming NUS Angklung Ensemble Concert 2015: The Chronicle. Also, by having this roadshow, we can also attract people to get to know NUS Angklung Ensemble as a vibrant subclub of NUS CAC.
The roadshow itself also includes preliminary course to introduce students and other people about how to use Angklung properly and performing a simple song such as the Happy Birhtday Song. We managed to attract many people to learn more about Angklung and NUS Angklung Ensemble and as well as promoting The Chronicle Concert 2015. We are looking forward to meet more people in NUS Roadshow 2016!