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blue_lotus13It's beautiful here today, so I went for a long walk out of the city up to Zaisan. Zaisan is a monument to honour Mongolians and Russians in the second world war (I think). Anyway, there were lots of people out today, and many of them were in happy playful moods. I say this because two different Mongolian men sprayed me with water pistols. But it was all in good fun.
I climbed part way up the mountain and then just lay on a bench and watched the horses on the hill. After a while, the herder came and drove them off. Herders here use these big sticks with whips attached to drive their animals. If you're ever in the countryside and see one of these sticks stuck in the ground, you're not supposed to go near because it means that there's some "hot loving" going on.
Further up the mountain, there were some goats, which a fat Mongolian man and I chased around. Finally we caught a baby goat so that a French tourist could have his picture taken while he was holding the goat.
The view from the top of the monument was amazing. There were paintings around the top of the monument which depicted Soviet and Mongolian cooperation in the war. (Probably lots of propaganda)
On the way down, I passed this guy who just started throat singing. (That's the deep Tibetan singing that is done in the throat.) When I looked over, he said, "Do you know this singing?"
I nodded and went over, and he proceeded to show me a variety of the tones he could do. The secret is to pull lots of into your stomach, and then focus it into different parts of the throat. If you direct the air into a lower region, you get a deeper sound. The singer told me to put my hand on his throat so that I could feel how he was vibrating the air and making the different sounds. All very cool. I noted the interesting contrast between the singer's ancient musical art, and his Adidas jumpsuit.
I climbed part way up the mountain and then just lay on a bench and watched the horses on the hill. After a while, the herder came and drove them off. Herders here use these big sticks with whips attached to drive their animals. If you're ever in the countryside and see one of these sticks stuck in the ground, you're not supposed to go near because it means that there's some "hot loving" going on.
Further up the mountain, there were some goats, which a fat Mongolian man and I chased around. Finally we caught a baby goat so that a French tourist could have his picture taken while he was holding the goat.
The view from the top of the monument was amazing. There were paintings around the top of the monument which depicted Soviet and Mongolian cooperation in the war. (Probably lots of propaganda)
On the way down, I passed this guy who just started throat singing. (That's the deep Tibetan singing that is done in the throat.) When I looked over, he said, "Do you know this singing?"
I nodded and went over, and he proceeded to show me a variety of the tones he could do. The secret is to pull lots of into your stomach, and then focus it into different parts of the throat. If you direct the air into a lower region, you get a deeper sound. The singer told me to put my hand on his throat so that I could feel how he was vibrating the air and making the different sounds. All very cool. I noted the interesting contrast between the singer's ancient musical art, and his Adidas jumpsuit.
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Date: 2003-07-05 05:06 pm (UTC)lol!
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