- [Inspired by a Maranao design]
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of Hans BrandeisI welcome you on my home page,
and I cordially invite you to write down your comments!Please send your e-mail to Hans Brandeis by clicking here: brandeis[.at.]arcor.de or on the icon above. BTW, it has to be stated that some of the e-mail addresses of the writers below have changed in the meantime.
Date sent: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:53:33 +0800
From: Greg Knibbs
Subject: Permaculture
Dear Hans
Enjoyed your photos and information. Thought you would like to hear that
in September 1997 I taught a 12 day permaculture design course to some
tribal members of the Higaonon people and members of CASEC Project Leaders
re Communinty Awareness Services for Ecological Concerns at Habivgan
Dumalaguing, Impasugong, Bukidnon, Mindanao Island, Philippines at their
village. It was a great success.
Regards
Greg Knibbs
Freemantle
Western AUSTRALIA
Date sent: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:17:37 -0800
From: David Perdew
Guten Tag
I've enjoyed looking at your web site; it's great to see a good overview
with photograph video, sound clips and in depth text, I've added your site
to my links. I wish there was more ethnomusicology sites out there.
I've been working for a year now, building a web site on a documentary
study, I made in Borneo on music and traditional culture in transition.
Sincerely David Perdew
www.takumedia.net
Date sent: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:44:42 EST
From: Ray Mager
Do you have for sale video tapes of the Bukidnon-s of Mindanao, or perhaps
the music on CD's?
Thank you
Ray Mager
Date sent: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:19:53 +1100
From: Fred Wilesmith
Subject: Mindanao
Good evening Hans.....
You have a fantastic page on Bukidnon - fantastic !!!!
I`m married to a Filipina from Cogon, El Salvadore, Misamis Oriental, Cagayan
de Oro. Her brother was posted to Sumilao Police Station where he was an
active policeman in the area ( he has just retired ). He still lives in Sumilao.
Whenever we visit back home we always go and visit him. He has taken us
to Fortich, Malabalay etc etc. The only thing I don`t enjoy are those bloody
Kamakaze bus drivers, they are mad !!! he he he
I have written to you before, approximately 18 months ago. I see you have
updated your site. I congratulate you, Hans, I really do for having taken
the time and effort you have put into your site. There is much to be learned
about Mindanao things that need to be explored and not made tooooooooo touristy
because once that happens the people will lose their true identity and
belongingness.
You are receiving this e-mail from Australia to be exact New South Wales.
Best Regards
Fred Wilesmith
Date sent: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:34:56 -0800
From: Peter Gago CA
Subject: Music of Bukidnon's
Mr Brandeis,
I would like more information on purchasing the English version of
Music and Dance of the Bukidnon's of Mindanao - A Short
Introduction by the FAB. And any other articles.
Thank Pete Gago
Date sent: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 02:00:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Sorayda Santillan
Subject: Ethnic dancing
Hi! I`m so glad that someone like you is very much interested in our
culture. Direct to the point, I`m on my research about ethnic dancing
here in the Phil. Can you help me in my research?
Date sent: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:50:52 +0100
From: Trine Lise Nørstad
Subject: Can I "borrow" a picture from U?
Hey,
My name is Trine Lise Nørstad. I'm from the northern part of Norway.
I study at school, and we have an excersice, where we need a picture
of a heaven. So I wonder if I can borrow this picture:
http://aedv.cs.tu-berlin.de/~brandeis/Bilder/himmel-l.jpg
Trine Lise Nørstad
Date sent: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:08:53 -0400
From: Diane Camino
Subject: T'boli
Greetings Hans,
My name is Diane Camino and I am a performing member of KInding Sindaw, a
New York City based not-for-profit cultural dance company. We are
dedicated to performing the indigenous music & dances of the Philippines
especially Mindanao. Our founder/teacher is Potri Ranka Manis and she is
a Maranao (Lanao) princess and is a registered nurse. She too has lived
with the T'boli in the 80's. I am also from Mindanao, Davao City and have
been living in NYC for since I was 2yrs. old and now I'm 23.
I was doing some research and came across your website and I was very
captivated by the the pictures. I am writing to you to gain your academic
support for our organization. We are in the process of mounting our version
of "Lemlunay" the T'boli epic. It will be staged @ the renowned La Mama
theater in the East village of NYC during the entire month of April 2003.
Please go to our website for more info on KInding Sindaw
http://www.kindingsindaw.org
Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Diane
Date sent: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 04:51:59 EDT
From: Tessie Wilms
Dear Mr. Hans Brandeis,
I have stayed in Mindanao mostly in Davao, and I have not seen much of
the natives there and that was 25 years ago. I am very impressed about
the output of your research and I have learned a lot from your work,
I am a Filipino myself. Thank you very much for putting this website.
Congratulations and wishing you success in all of your undertakings.
truly yours,
Tessie Wilms
Date sent: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 03:12:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Abigail Agus
Subject: AMAZZZZIIING Photos!!!!!!!
WOW!!! your photos are great! it was very surprising to click on a site that
showed amazing pictures of my home province. i'm at the country's capital,
at the moment, finishing my degree and really homesick. those pictures just
want to jump out of the monitor. it is really beautiful, especially the old ones
that are quite different now. it just reminded me how great and beautiful our
place really is! i wish i can tour the place when i get back specially the
mountains! i love it there!!! it's so different here in the city.
well, i just want to congratulate you on your beautiful photos!
-Gail of Bukidnon, Philippines
Date sent: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:37:40 -0700
From: Daniel Bigler
Subject: Your Photographs of Mindanao
Dear Mr. Brandeis,
I am quite pleased to say that I have absolutely loved your website. It's
extremely informative and has introduced me to aspects of the Mindanao
life that I hadn't known about before.
Well, aside from that good word, I also email you with another purpose: I
am an independent filmmaker planning on shooting a feature in Mindanao
within a year or two, once I finish revising the screenplay and finish
treading through the preproduction stuff. Revision has gone slow; thus, I
thought it might be (and surely inspirational!) to make a "teaser poster"
for the film, using photographs of the Philippines and such. While I have
a specific vision for this "teaser poster," I, unfortunately, don't have
the proper photographs to use in it. I thought the ones you took
(http://aedv.cs.tu-berlin.de/~brandeis/landscap.html) would be great,
though! The sole problem, however, is that the photographs presented on
your site just aren't of the proper resolution, or big enough, for me to
use as an 11x17 poster!
I was hoping that, just perhaps, you might be able to rescan some of the
Mindanao landscape photographs and send them to me. Should you be willing
to do this, I'd, of course, email the proper resolutions to you so that
little effort would have to be required of you. Furthermore, I would be
forever grateful, and would be more than willing to recompensate you for
your troubles.
I look forward to hearing your response! You and your work are very much
appreciated, you should know...
-Daniel Bigler
Date sent: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:45:39 -0700
From: Sunny Lewis
Subject: Use of photo
Hello Hans...thank you for posting your images of the Philippines on the
Internet. I have taken the liberty of using one to illustrate our report
about the US-Philippine debt for nature swap signed late last week.
You can see the story on our site at: http://ens-news.com. I have
credited you with a link to your site.
If you have any objection to this use of your image, I will remove it from
the website at once.
Regards, Sunny Lewis
Sunny Lewis
Editor-in-Chief
Environment News Service (ENS)
http://ens-news.com
Date sent: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:06:00 -0600
From: Selah Abello Cudal Burson
Subject: Thank You
Dear Mr. Brandeis,
I appreciate your work so much. My great-grandfather was one of the founding
fathers of Malaybalay, Faustino Abello, himself being one of the datu's of the
area. My father then became a missionary to the Manubo tribes for several years.
Since my birth, I have been steeped in the pride of being from Bukidnon, and
my childhood bedtime stories were of the mountain people. I am so glad to find
your site so full of all the things I have heard over the years. I am eager to
share this site with my family and my daughters.
Thank you for sharing your work.
Sincerely
Selah Abello Cudal Burson
Date sent: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Edderic See
Subject: Request
Dear Sir:
I am doing a thesis on urban settlement. May I have your permission to publish
your pictures on my thesis. The thesis is in web page form.
Thank You.
Date sent: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 05:16:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hans Schiefer
Subject: Anfrage nach Infos über Valencia-Phillipines
Sehr geehrter Herr Brandeis,
Ihre Website mit den Phili-Infos gefällt mir sehr gut. Vielleicht können Sie
mir helfen. Ich suche Infos über die Stadt Valencia (bei Davao). Könnten Sie
mir ein paar Internet-links mitteilen. Herzlichen Dank im vorraus.
MfG
Hans Schiefer
Date sent: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:26:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adriana
Subject: Ihre Website gefunden
Lieber Hans!
I am a student from California and interested in Philippine gong music. My
interest is especially the development of the gong from North to South and
what happened to gongs after the Spaniard came to the Philippines. Did they
all get melted or is it worth digging? I know Jose Maceda and his book "Gongs
and Bamboo" and other books from libraries about kulintang. Is there any other
source you can suggest? By the way, I am a Berliner! I am living in the United
States since 1977. My husband is from Bulacan. I really enjoy your webpage.
If you have any info about Filipine gongs or bamboo instrument that would be
great. I am planning to study ethnomusicology in Berkeley (if I get in!)...
I know UCLA is much better, I just went for a great Tagung on ethno music but
my husband has now a tenure track position and we'll stay here! We love the
Bay Area.
If you have a chance, drop me a line! Und viele Grüße an mein altes Berlin!
Ich bin aus Mariendorf. Ist die Trabrennbahn noch da? Ich war da immer als
Kind und habe die Pferde versorgt.
Maraming Salamat Po und besten Dank!
Mit vielen lieben Grüßen aus California!
Ethnomusicologically Yours,
Adriana
Date sent: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 05:46:42 EDT
From: Violeta Gerstel
Subject: cultural minorities of bukidnon
Lieber Herr Brandeis,
ich bin froh, daß ich unverhofft über Bukidnon Cultural Minorities
gestoßen bin. Ich bin nämlich auch aus Bukidnon. Danke, daß Sie über Cultural
Minorities von Bukidnon geschrieben haben. Ich bin seit 1980 in Wolfsburg
und 15 Jahre nicht wieder nach Bukidnon geflogen. Ich habe schon meine Heimat
vermisst. Ich finde, es ist schön so wissen, daß sich jemand dafür interesiert.
Danke dafür.
Mit freundlichen Gruß,
Violeta Gerstel
Date sent: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:56:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Anne-Marie Felicitas
Subject: Nose-flute
Hello Hans Brandeis,
I have recently started a Nose-Flute Ensemble in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
We have been together for 1 year. We are called The Slappyfeatherwhistle
Nose-Flute Ensemble. I have been doing lots and lots of research regarding
this instrument and I was wondering if you could share with me any knowledge
that you might have regarding the nose-flute. The instrument can be found in
number of places around the world and the Phillipines is one of them. If you
would like more information on my ensemble please check out my website at
http://www.slappyfeatherwhistle.cjb.net
Thanks
Anne-Marie Felicitas
Date sent: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:51:34 -0700
From: lhey
Subject: hi
i thnk god cause u hav a heart 4 the cultures of ethnic filipinos here in
the philippines.I am a dancer and i wnt 2 learn different tribal dance but
i dnt hav enough money 2 buy cd or books about tribal music and dance.i am
missionary daughter here in philippines ethnic groups like badjao.i hope
u can help me 2 know different tribal music and dance.Thank u so much.GOD
BLESS
Date sent: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:31:32 -0700
From: Rick
Subject: The Music and Dance of the Southern Philippines
It was with much joy that I finally found a resource that explores the music
and culture and dance of the Southern Philippines. I have searched in vain
for a long time.
May I ask that I incorporate links back to your page from ours, so that our
members can see the beauty and richness that your site encompasses. We are
a non-commercial and non-profit site existing only for the enrichment of our
members and visitors. Our members are Filipino orphans with a wide diversity
of ethnicities who are now dispersed all over the world... and share a desire
to rediscover their heritage with their adoptive countries, friends, and
family members.
http://www.anthonians.org
Date sent: Wed, 22 May 2002 23:55:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rhea Lomingkit
Subject: Philippines' Cultural Background
Dear Mr. Brandeis,
My name is Rhea Lomingkit, a college student here in Los Angeles,
California. I am doing a presentation for my music class and I've chosen
to present Philippines. I was hoping if you could help me on my presentation.
I would very much appreciate your effort. I need some information about
Philippines' cultural background.
a) Does the country have a singular ethnicity or multiple ethnicities?
b) Are there different styles of music? If so, how are they different/separated
- by historical era, social class, gender, ethnicity, age, region, etc.?
c) Are there external or cross-cultural influences?
Thank you very much! I am looking forward to hearing from you. Have a nice day!
Sincerely,
Rhea
Date sent: Thu, 9 May 2002 13:18:22 +0200 (CEST)
From: Manfred Zimmermann
Subject: Websitebilder (Mindanao)
Sehr geehrter Herr Brandeis!
Mein Name ist Manfred. Ich fand Ihre "Philippine Minorities" Website hoechst
interessant. Da Sie das Copyright fuer die Photos besitzen, wollte ich Sie
um Erlaubnis bitten, einige dieser Photos auf meinen Computer zu speichern
und sie eventuell in Praesentationen zu benuetzen? Natuerlich mit dem Hinweis,
dass Sie der Photograf und Eigentuemer der Bilder sind. Sollten Sie nicht
einverstanden sein, ist es O.K. Ich werde die Bilder in diesem Fall nicht
beruehren.
Mit Hochachtung Manfred.
Date sent: Wed, 8 May 2002 17:30:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Emily Pan
Subject: Question
Dear Mr. Brandeis,
I am a student in California, USA. We're doing a project on the Philippines,
and we need to do a biography. I'm missing the name of the organization.
Please e-mail me back as soon as possible, because the project is due
in a few days. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Emily Pan
Date sent: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:51:51 -0700
From: hguigl
Subject: great works!
I am from one of the barangays of Impasugong, having a Bukidnon mother
(whom I was told belong to the Higaonon tribe). Although I am presently
working in Cebu, for six years I used to be the Municipal Planning and
Development Coordinator of Impasugong. And I still go home to Bukidnon
once a month! Looking at your work is nostalgic and I recall how much
effort has to be exerted to reach those remote barangays just to get
first hand information and pictures about the natives of Impasugong and
the neighboring places. I also feel very nostalgic seeing the picture of
the late Fr. Vincent Cullen, the first ever missionary to take pains in
translating the Lord's Prayer to the binukid dialect.
Thank you for taking interest in our culture. I know that this has
rekindled a passion of preserving the past for the future generation to
appreciate and respect.
Marakol (madakel) salamat!
Date sent: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 11:49:27 -0400
From: Donna Hebert
Subject: photo use
I'm a fiddler/ethnomusicologist from Amherst Massachusetts in the US.
I'm interested in using your photo below on my site "The Muse of Joy
and Sorrow - why we play the fiddle . . ." at
http://www.dhebert.com/publications/themuse/
Would you please allow me to do so? I use this site to inspire and
entertain my students and plan no commercial use of the site at this
time.
Thanks
Donna Hebert
Date sent: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:41:51 +0300
From: Josephine Bingat-Himanka
Hello There,
I just wanna congratulate you for the wonderful things you've made.
Keep up a good work always. Its educational and very interesting.
Am very happy about everything you've done. Am also from Mindano,
and now living here in Finland. I love traditional way of music
from the Native Bukidnon Province, (Kaamulan) and also I heard a lot
from Malasag CDO....it was great and should be given a recognitions
to the whole world. Hopefully, young generations in Philippines should
put into practice & love 100% for the traditional music (original sounds
of Arts in Philippines ), not only into modern or rock 'n roll from the
outside world.
Well done and Good luck!
Best wishes,
Josephine Bingat-Himanka
Finland, Europe
Date sent: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:47:57 +0800
From: Tuesday M. Gutierrez
Subject: Hi
Dear Hans,
do you, by chance, have a copy of your recordings of philippine ethnic music?
its so hard to find anything like this in the philippines
Tuesday
Date sent: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 02:18:28 -0400
From: Shei Reyes
Subject: Mindanao resource.
I would just like to extend my appreciation of your website. As of now, I
don't have any idea if you have been updating it, but I would just like to
say that I was quite thrilled finding a homepage like yours.
I, together with two other collaborators, are coming up with three murals
depicting scenes and artifacts from the different areas in the
Philippines. I chose Mindanao because the culture of the region (I feel)
are often neglected compared to the other parts of the country. Seeing
your pictures and reading your descriptions have renewed my interest in my
country of origin. Somehow I felt a big sense of pride knowing that the
Philippines, particularly the Mindanao islands, are somehow connected to
the cultures of the other Southest Asian countries.
More power to you and the work that you do.
Sincerely,
Shei Reyes
Date sent: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:03:50 -0400
From: Marina Harris
Subject: Hello
Hello,
Just read your information and I was surprise to know that your wife is from
Mindoro what part?
I am from Bongabong Oriental Mindoro and also spend almost four years in
Bremerhaven Germany when my husband stationed there in 1978. Now we are
here in sunshine Florida my husband retired now from the Air Force.
I am interested in the Heritage cultural. Here at the Kennedy Space Center
I am very involved in the NASA/Asian Pacific cultural awareness.
Also in Mindoro Oriental, we have native there called Mangyan that would be
nice to do a research for our cultures. I don't know if you have that
information since most of the people that I know they have research in
Mindanao.
Regards to all of you
Marina Harris
NASA/Asian Pacific Cultural Awareness
Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899
Date sent: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:50:25 EDT
From: Rowel I. Lirag
Subject: comment...
Hello Hans,
I was browsing the Net when I my name pop up in your site.
http://www.aedv.cs.tu-berlin.de/~brandeis/animals.html
They are very nice pixs!
Rowel
Date sent: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:33:00 +0800
From: Chiara Zambrano
mr. brandeis, i'm honored to be sharing a common interest with you, even
if it's in the minutest degree. i'm not too sure i can be of any help to
your research, but i just have to give you my support and encouragement. i
am only a listener and supporter of pinoy world music, for i'm afraid i do
not have the means to carry on a research such as yours, although i would
very much like to. filipino music is one of the richest in the world, and
it being only one aspect of our even richer culture can be an overwhelming
thought. i only wish more filipinos would take interest in preserving,
appreciating, and simply being proud of what you are delving into. it is
ours, after all. thank you, sir, for recognizing the beauty of musiko
filipino. mabuhay po kayo, and more power to your cause. please keep us
updated on your progress, or if we can be of any assistance. i myself
would like to know how a humble listener like me can help you, and also
what you have been discovering so far.
regards over there in germany. are the cherryblossoms in bloom?
sincerely,
ms. chiara zambrano
19, ateneo de manila university
member, makiling ensemble mailing list
patron of pinoy music
Date sent: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 23:39:27 +0800
From: Jim Ayson
Subject: [Clipped from the philmusic mailing list]
Hans, a very warm welcome indeed to the Philmusic mailing list. A visit to
your website sometime 1995 or 1996 introduced me to a lot of indigenous
Philippine instruments - it was then then I knew the names of instruments
like the hegalong, kubing, etc - all of which have become part and parcel
of the small but growing group of ensembles that fuse Philippine ethnic
sounds with world music. I initially found it ironic that it would take a
German national to teach Filipinos these things and provide an online home
for this info, but all in all you have still proven to be a fantastic
authoritative guide to our musical heritage. Maraming salamat!
Date sent: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 10:59:36 +0300
From: Borla, Eniaque P.
Subject: Hans Brandeis Homepage
Hi Hans.
Your homepage is very fantastic, it is an excellent web site. Very informative
and really very impressive. Your write-ups have been forwarded and are currently
circulated in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia. More power to you!
Nick.
Date sent: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:09:17 -0800
From: Boy Angos
Just want to praise your committment to our very own music culture.
I can tell having the same objective only mine is merely a fraction of your
committment. I played most of the instrument you mentioned and still promoting
in my own way the richness of our culture. Good luck and I salute you again
and long live the traditional (ethnic) Philippine music.
Salamat po,
Boy Angos
kayamanan.org
Date sent: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:06:50 +0300
From: Bernard Y. Gutierrez
Mr. Brandeis,
We look forward and support your endeavor for the preservation of our
cultural heritage. It is indeed very flattering to know that you
appreciate our culture and music very much. =) Hoping to "work" with you
soon in our music projects! Good luck!
Burn
Date sent: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:25:47 EST
From: Dan Graham
hello
with an interest in Songco,Bukidnon. As a young man working for the
U.S. government back in 1954 I first visited Songco. My interest was to
establish a coffee plantation. By 1959 along with my filipina wife I went
there to live permanently. The coffee business was very sucessful and I
became quite involved in helping the locol schools. My good fortune came to
an end in about 1970 through the infidelity of my spouse. I then left the
Philippines to start a new life in Micronesia and after about 20 years
returned to the U.S.A. I still have fond memories of the Bukidnon people
and would like hear more about them. My name is Dan Graham.
Date sent: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:55:54 +0800
From: Jojo Vicencio
Herr Brandeis,
I was asked by one of my nephews about Ethinc FIlipino music and dance.
The search landed me on the doorstep of your web page. Thoughnot the
primary user, I was very transfixed by the content. I am grateful for
your work and I pray it generates more interest. You did excleent work.
with much respect,
jojo vicencio
Jojo, Nonie & Clarissa Vicencio
Baranggay Hulo
Mandaluyong City
Date sent: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:25:40 EST
From: Peter
Subject: Philippine ethnic instruments
Hi
Mr. Hans I am doing a research on the ethnic instruments of the
philippines. During my research I have come across a certain instrument in
a book. I talks of a Drum called a "Neguet" used by the Tiruray of
Cotabato. Its description is that it is made from palm brava. 20cm wide
and 30 cm tall. It is narrow on the bottom then it bulges out in the
middle then it narrows again on the top where the drum head is placed. It
does not have a hole in the bottom it appears to be a kettle drum.
In your research and travels have you come across anything like or similar
to this? I am trying to find how it sounds like I can only imagime that it
sounds like a samll timpani.
Any infomation or input is much appreciated
Thanks.
Peter
Date sent: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:21:31 -1200
From: Marielle Daquis
Subject: Phil. Ethnic Musical Instruments
Hi I am Marielle Daquis and I am in grade four. I am searching for
native musical instruments for my lessons in school and came across your
writings. I would like to thank you that a little bit I was educated from
the musical styles of ethnic Filipinos and I appreciate your writings and
was enlightened that a foreigner of my land was even the one who's
interested in the ethnic culture. Thank you.
Best regards,
Marielle
Date sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:47:56 EST
From: Catherine Kensil
Dear Hans,
I really enjoyed all your wonderful pictures from the Philippines.
I was searching for tree houses that the natives lived in and came
across your website. I especially enjoyed the picture of your brother-in-law
in the palm headdress.
I didn't find the answer to my query. Are you familiar with the native tree
houses built high on trees and made up of rattan, bark, willow and leaves?
The foundations look quite strong and the natives live up there to protect
themselves from intruders, insects and marshy conditions below.
Any information that you can provide will really be appreciated.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Catherine Kensil
Date sent: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:58:44
From: Val Legaspi
Subject: Music of The Bukidnon People
Hello!
I'm a second year student from Canada doing a term project on the Bukidnon
for my World Musics class. I found your website very helpful. I was
wondering if you knew where I could order some recorded or notated music
by the Bukidnon.
Thank you.
Val
Date sent: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:03:40 +0800
From: Marco Tomas
Subject: Ilocos instruments
I want to know more about the Ilokano instruments pls. verify
immediately!!!!!!!!! Name me some instruments!!!!
Date sent: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:05:58 -0800
From: Oscar Legaspi
Subject: Music of the Philippines
Hello, I'm doing a research paper on music in the Philippines and I
don't know really where to start. But your site seems helpful.
Thanks.
Date sent: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:08:26 +0800
From: Edward Caine Bernales Amper
Subject: thank you
dear dr. brandeis:
i am a senior psychology student from the xavier university in cagayan de
oro city. like you, i bear a keen interest in culture, especially that of
my city.
it was in vain that i scoured the web for sources about the historical-
cultural heritage of mindanao, cagayan de oro in particular. that was
until i found your website. your dedication to exploring the culture in
mindanao and the corresponding concept you put before the german
government concerning your desire to document and properly record the
aforementioned are both truly astounding. you, a german-- a westerner--
has decided to take up the cause to save the dwindling cultural heritage
of the land of my birth! i feel very disheartened to know that not even
one of my own countrymen has the same vision and faith that you have. it
seems that you love mindanao more than the average mindanaoan. in this
regard, let me offer you my deepest respect.
please show more of what you have learned in mindanao on your website.
better yet, please, if it's not asking too much, forward me some documents
regarding your study. i will be grateful for any positive action you take.
sincerely,
e.c. dasig
Date sent: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:44:47 -0500
From: Jeff & Marie Joy Ziegler
Subject: About Mindanao Ethnic Music and Dance
Hello Hans!
My name is Marie Ziegler and I'm originally from Mindanao although I am
now residing in the US. I came across your website about the colorful and
interesting Mindanao tribes, I am amazed how you've done all that to think
of the recent security situation in the Southern Philippines. I hope you
can keep up the good work of writing about the natives. My group are also
putting together a cultural art org'n here in the US to showcase Filipino
arts including music and dance and I've created our own website...
www.kambayoka.com
May I please link your sites to our ethnic music and dance portion.
Thanks and Regards,
Marie Ziegler
Date sent: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 17:15:16 -0600
From: Victor Nombrado
Subject: Thank you
Hello Mr. Brandeis:
My name is Victor Nombrado ... and I am the Artistic Director of the
Kayumanggi Philippine Performing Arts here in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada.
I have been doing volunteer position for over 10 years, and surprisingly,
I am still enjoying every minute of it. The chance to promote and instill
Philippine culture to young Filipinos and non-Filipinos here in Canada is
just an unexplainable feeling of elation on my part. I was born in the
Philippine, and I came to Canada when I was 16 years old. My experience
in teaching is not a formal education, but more of knowledge accumulated
throughout the years that I had been involved with various dance groups as
well as my own self awareness my own culture when I was growing up in the
Philippines.
Now, I want to thank you for you website about the music and ethnocology
of my people. I ran into your website because I am trying to do some
research on the ethnic music of the Philippines. Unfortunately, our dance
group still relies on tape recorded music to dance along with. I wish to
become more authentic in our presentation by accompanying our dances with
live music expecially the dances of the south. I, myself, am not very
musically inclined. I can try and pick up tunes, but unfortunately, I can
only do simple ones. We have some of the instruments i.e. kulintangang,
drums, flute and the kubing, but unfortunately we don't know how to
utilize it fully.
I know that you are not a Filipino but according to yourself that you have
studied our music. Therefore, do you have any instructional book that we
can utilize to learn how to use the instruments that we have now. I can
do an intense research by going back to the Philipines or look for
somebody who can actually teach us how to play the instrument personally,
but these ideas are not that simple. So, if you have written any books
that we may purchase or borrow about music playing ... we would be very
much appreciative of this. I know ... this request might sound ridiculous
but I think it is worth a try if I really want to have authentic showing
of our Philippine culture in and outside Canada.
Anyway, I wish you good day ... thank you for the insightful website that
you have made. On behalf of other Filipinos, I thank you for appreciating
our culture.
Victor Nombrado
Date sent: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:46:08 +1100
From: Phoebe Louella Libayao-Bibawi
Hi,
I've been following your homepage from time to time, its just amazing.
I made my own homepage about Impasugong Bukidnon, its just a summary. I
would like to link your homepage to my homepage if its OK with you.
Thanks and regards,
Phoebe
http://www.geocities.com/impasugong
Date sent: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:27:14 EST
From: Judieann Tadeo
Subject: Music and Dance of the Bukidnon-s of Mindanao - article
hello hans.
let me introduce myself. i am judieann tadeo and i currently
attend moorpark college in california. well, i am in a world music honors
class and part of this course is to teach a class about a certain aspect
or culture of world music. therefore i have decided to research and
hopefully teach the class about music from the philippines. i myself am a
native of the philippines but am not very knowledged in the different
types of traditional music. i did a search on google and found your site.
would it be possible if you could send me a copy of your article along
with illustrations? Also, would it be possible if you could send me
copies of any video or sound recordings you may have? if there is an
issue of money, because i know it can get pretty expensive to mail
packages, please let me know and i will try to send you money. could you
please reply back as soon as possible because, being the procrastinator
that i am, my project is due at the end of this month.
thank you very much!
judieann tadeo
Date sent: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rvlenny Laguna
Subject: I'm asking some question about...
dear sir,
helo...
I want to purchase a printed copy of this article
containing English and German versions as well as all
the illustrations. pls send me via e-mail. thank you
and more power..
truly your's,
rvlen
Date sent: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin G. F. Cage
Subject: Moro Turban
Greetings,
You have a most excellent web!! i am a first
generation teacher of a Filipino Martial Art, and i
was wondering if you might be able to describe or tell
me where i could find out exactly how they tie their
turbans. Often times, i have seen pictures of
Moros with a large sort of triangular flap off to one
side, covering an ear. If you can be of assistance
that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
Kevin G.F.Cage
Date sent: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:20:34 +0200
From: Jay Jay Feliciano
Subject: your homepage
hello hans,
i have just spent some time reading your documents on your homepage.
I must say that it is very interesting. I myself as a filipino know
very little about this topic and i wish to thank you for this
information. i hope you still remember me. we sang together one
time in the choir and i am sure that you know my father.
hope to see you soon
best wishes
jay jay feliciano
Date sent: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:08:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jocelyn M. Francisco
September 29, 2001
Dear Sir,
Thank you very much for sharing your beautiful photographs on the
Internet.
We shall be showing your photographs to the class when we study our
very own ethnic tribes in the Philippines.
As a Filipino, I myself still know so little about the southern part
of my very own country. Even if our textbooks discuss these, your
photographs will surely enhance our knowledge. In behalf of our
students, again we say thank you for your work.
Very truly yours,
Jocelyn M. Francisco
Principal
Regis Marie Montessori
http://www.info.com.ph/~remarmon
remarmon@info.com.ph
Date sent: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:28:47 +0800
From: Kaloy Manlupig
Dear Hans,
I would like to thank you very sincerely for your very impressive works on
the Philippines, especially Mindanao. They truly reflect your deep
interest and concern about our country and people.
Had I visited your site earlier, I would have never missed the opportunity
to personally see you while I was in Berlin last year.
Danke!
Kaloy Manlupig
Balay Mindanaw
Date sent: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:27:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lisa Tolentino
Subject: Music from Southern Mindanao
Hello Hans,
I had been searching the web crazy for recordings of tribal music from
the Southern Philippines ... when I came across your site.
I have yet to sift through it all (esp. the bit on the SAOT project),
but to say the least, I am very fascinated and interested in it. I have
no idea how I would be able to contribute, however, given I am just
a 4th year undergrad at an american university (University of California,
San Diego), studying Computer science and percussion. The music department
here, however, delves into more contemporary or music technology issues,
while the percussion group experiments with a lot of 'world music'.
The one type of music I haven't found, however, is that of the
Philippines.
I am, I suppose, second generation (?) Filipino, as my parents are from
Ilocos Norte (province). I was born here in the US. I visited Luzon
this past summer and stayed for six weeks, enriched and in awe of the
countryside, the food, the people and their traditions. (I even brought
a huge ancient mountain drum back with me.)
I'd like to know if there has been any progress with your project.
I was also wondering if you could point me to any sites that would have
recordings of these traditions, that is, if the recordings *exist*. Also,
if you know of places either here, on-line, or even in the Philippines/
Mindanao area where I might purchase music or native tribal instruments,
please let me know. I hope to return to the PI in a couple years.
If there is anything I can reasonably do for you, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Lisa Tolentino, undergraduate, UC San Diego
lt_martini@yahoo.com or ltolenti@ucsd.edu
Date sent: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:48:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Irsay
Subject: Philippine Music
Dear Sir:
I much enjoyed your site concerning music of the Mindanao region of
the Philippines. You mentioned on the site that the cultures are
effectively dead, and that you witnessed mainly reconstructions of what
were once vital elements in the lives of these people. We see this all
over the world, sadly.
I am a producer of cd's, stressing the capture of living traditions
which are in danger of disappearing. I have seen the syndrome time
and again of mainly older people participating in traditional rituals.
Morocco was heartening, as there were young people involved in some
Islamic/Berber ritual, featuring quite exciting music.
My attention has been drawn to the Philippines. Your fine and thorough
researches made me think that you may be a good person to contact.
I am interested, above all, in exciting music, especially music which
produces some psychological or trance effect, generally for such
purposes as healing/exorcism, or spiritual enhancement. I would be
interested in seeking out actual living rituals, not re-enactments
or presentations.
Perhaps Philippine Islam may be fruitful, as Islam is such a strong
force today. The possibilities for Philippine Islam as a "reinvention"
of older pagan traditions adapted and placed in the context of Islam
are intriguing. However any living tradition would be acceptable,
provided the music is exciting.
Any possibilities? May I ask for your expert advice in perhaps pointing
me to some such activity in the Philippines? My only requirements,
once again, are an actual living ritual, performed as part of "real life"
for either festivals, healing rituals, or even weddings and such,
and a high quality of music, preferably, but not necessarily, incorporating
some psychological or trance element.
Best,
James Irsay
Date sent: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:20:58 +0200
From: Dr. Wolfgang Ott
Subject: Musical Instruments
Sehr geehrter Herr Brandeis,
als Sammler von Saiteninstrumenten aus aller Welt stieß ich nach dem
Erwerb einer Kutiyapi bei der Suche nach Informationen im Internet über
dieses Instrument auf Ihren Artikel "Music and Dance of the Bukidnon-s of
Mindanao". Dieser Artikel war für mich sehr informativ, vor allem da er
mit gutem Bildmaterial und Videos versehen war. Nützlich wären vielleicht
bei den vorgestellten Musikinstrumenten einige Sound-Beispiele. Ich habe
für meine Sammlung (über 170 Saiteninstrumente) als eine Art Katalog eine
interaktive CD zum privaten Gebrauch gemacht. Auf diese würde ich gerne
mit Ihrer Erlaubnis die Illustrationen 10 (Playing the boat lute kutiyapi)
und 12 (Frets of the kutiyapi) mit aufnehmen. Da ich in Bild 10 auch
gesehen habe, dass Sie Tonaufnahmen von diesem Instrument gemacht haben,
möchte ich Sie um ein 30 bis 40 Sekunden dauerndes Tonbeispiel bitten, das
ich ebenfalls mit in den Katalog aufnehmen würde. Falls dies möglich sein
sollte, könnten Sie mir dieses Beispiel freundlicherweise mit e-mail (als
Anlage) zusenden.
Viele Grüße
Wolfgang Ott
Date sent: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:39:13 -0500
From: Dale B. Hanson
Subject: Web site
Hans,
Thank you so much for your web site "Photographs of Mindanao"!!
I enjoyed it so much. My fiancee is from a barangay on Panay that I
visited in May of 2001. I was so impressed with the people and culture
of the Philippines. I cannot wait to visit again. Viewing your wonderful
photographs made me feel like I was back there.
Thank You - Thank You - Thank You!!!
Dale
Date sent: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 04:24:22 +0800
From: Marilou D Batayola
Subject: Tiboli tribe of the philippines picture
hi hans!
pictures of tiboli tribe of the philippines and its art and cultures are
one of our project in our school. the subject is humanities 2. I am
requesting you to please sent me some of them.
MAE
Date sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:10:15 -0000
From: Jana Jane Gevero Dacobor
Subject: it's amazing
dear mr. brandeis,
Maayad ha aldew kaniyo!
i supposed to use the Outlook Express, but i think there is something
wrong in it. so, i am using my personal account in the hotmail just to
send you my comment and commendation regarding your website.
it felt so great that i happened to visit your web when i was surfing the
mindanao.com site for our Interreligious and Cultural Dialogue program in
Campus Ministries of Xavier University. i was just overwhelmed with the
idea that there is a site that features the heritage of the tribal
communities particularly on music and their dances. i would like to
personally commend your effort on realizing this project that ables me to
see things more than i have also experienced.
i was working in the NGO based at cagayan de oro, mindanao, philippines
(last year) that worked with the Manobos in San Fernando, Bukidnon both
the Matisalug and the Tigwahanon . i was assigned in the Information and
Advocacy Unit funded by another NGO based internationally. My work really
demands time and presence to be with the communities that allows me to
integrate in their daily activities, experienced personal encounters and
even learned to speak their own dialect and sing their songs. Your
research gave me a full grasp of the whole thing that i have been
experiencing. What was so nice, is i knew some of the people in the
pictures you have shown - they are my friends during my stay in Bukidnon.
I have been with them, in their personal and social struggle and also in
their successes. You brought me into another stage of considering my
interest - that is to work for them!
Please send me detailed information on how to purchase related articles
with pictures and some of your recorded music and oral traditions. It has
been my inspiration to work for the cause of the Higaonons and Manobos of
Bukidnon as well as the Maranao in Mindanao.
I appreciate if you can keep in touch...
To all Cagay-anons may you find time to surf this page and appreciate the
culture and traditions of the Lumads in Bukidnon.
More power to you all...
jana jane gevero dacobor
Campus Ministries
Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan
Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines
Date sent: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 10:47:33 -0600
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Date sent: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:23:15 +0900
From: Melvin A. Jabar
Dear Sir,
I am Mr Melvin A. Jabar from the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. I
am making a webpage as part of my classroom requirement. I would like to
feature some of our indigenous peoples in the Philippines which you happen
to have it. Can ask permission from you to allow me to use some of your
pictures in your website?
Thanks and more power!
Melvin A. Jabar
Date sent: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 06:33:06 -0000
From: Ivy Tolentino
Subject: use of pictures
hi there!
I am working with Edunet, a group which is developing an educational
website for Filipino elementary and high school students. Currently,
a section on the Philippine History is being developed. Right now,
I'm gathering materials that will enhance the site, such as photographs,
reading materials and audio clips that have historical significance.
In this regard, I would like to ask permission to copy pictures from
your site.
Rest assured that your name and the site where I got the pictures from
will be properly indicated.
Hoping to hear from you soon. Thank you very much.
IVY
Date sent: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:02:40 +0200
From: Goedart Michel
Subject: Ethnic minorities of the Philippines: trad music & oral tradition
Mister Hans Brandeis,
Your internet site (http://aedv.cs.tu-berlin.de/~brandeis/) is greath !
thanks to share those informations.
I am Michel Goedart from Radio Panik, in Brussels
I produce, since 13 years, an ethnic music program
in Brussels.
I would be interested to produce several radio programs on the
taditional music & oral traditions of the ethnic minorities of the
Philippines.
I have no budget, but 2 hours a week radio program.
Would it be possible to organice something ?
Is there any cd publication in project ?
I am also preparing a long term project with the regional office of the
Unesco for Asia & Pacific concerning the production of radio programs by
young people on their cultural inheritance, in Philippina, Thailand and
Malaysia. We should start 3 itinerant radios in some region of those 3
first countries. I should coordinate it and thus move to Thailand.
I also organise an European a tour with a Mholam Ensemble from the Isan
region of Thailand, and I should be with them in the Haus der Kulturen of
Berlin, in May 2002. I have been there already twice, but with Inuit
performers (Canada, Greenland).
I'll be in Thailand starting from 23/05 for 1 month
but we could stay in contact by e-mail.
Best regards
Michel Goedart
Date sent: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:29:00 +0100
From: Francisca Canovas
Subject: thanks for your information
Dear Hans,
I'm a student of folkloric & ethnic music of the Murcia Conservatory of
Music, in Spain. Your information has helped me very, very much. And so
did your photos. So, I want to let you know.
Do you know of any site in the Internet where I can download "music" (mp3) of
ethnic music from the Philippines?
Thanks,
Francisca Canovas
Cartagena - Spain
Date sent: Tue, 08 May 2001 10:15:11 -0700
From: Celia De Fato
Organization: Kultura Philippine Folk Arts - kulruta.org
Subject: GREAT WORK
Dear Mr. Hans,
You are to be commended for your awesome work on the southern ethnic
tribes of the Philippines.
I am a former international member of the Bayanhan Philippine Dance
Company (1976-1984), reside in southern California and have co-founded and
been directing a nine-year old cultural non-profit group called KULTURA
Philippine Folk Arts.
I was raised in Davao City, not too far from Bukidnon, which
unfortunately I haven't been to! I take pride in Mindanao, "the promised
land", as it is my heritage.
I am looking for more material and came into your web, to present
something unique during the National Arts & Humanities Month in
California (October 2001). KULTURA will focus on the traditional dance
and music of some tribes in the south. The 'dugso' of the Talaandig is
one, since we have acquired costumes and implements from Mindanao
recently. We will probably do one from the T'boli, the tragic dance drama
Tagabili.
I will forward your web information to our membership of more than 45
FIlipino-Americans who share a deep passion for Philippine arts and
culture. More power to you and your work, and thank you for making it
available for everyone to learn from, and appreciate what is truly
Filipino, through cyberspace.
Mabuhay!
Sincerely,
Celia De Fato
Founding Artistic Director
KULTURA Philippine Folk Arts
www.kultura.org
Date sent: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:36:21 -0400
From: Mondy
Subject: question
Hello,
I purchased an item from a street sale recently. The only thing I was told
about the item is that it was from the Philippines, perhaps Northern Luzon area.
It's a carved wooden icon. The motif is of a face. Two eyes, open mouth with
fierce teeth showing. What look like two horns.
The central point is of 5 leafs, between the eyes. It's carved out of wood like
I said, and it's still curved as like a tree. There are some other cut outs around
the face or the border of the mask. It's heavy and about2feet wide and 3.4+ feet
tall. Can you steer me in a particular direction? Is it even Philippine sounding?
Thanks for any info.
ne cede malis, (yeild not to misfortune)
Mondy
Date sent: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:14:39 +0800
From: Dr. Antonio T. Sumbalan
Subject: Saw the photographs you have done in Bukidnon.
Really don't known whether it was you who had been introduced to me while
I was still working with the Provincial Government of Bukidnon, I was the
planning officer and I think it was Mrs. Ludie Opena who introduced you to me.
But any way I love the pictures you have taken from Bukidnon.
Best wishes
Tony Sumbalan
Date sent: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:21:20 -0400
From: Laetitia Gonsette
Subject: Hi there.
Hello Mr. Hans,
My name is Leticia Gonsette and I used to work in Phillips Memorial
Hospital as a Nurse. I really love it there very much. I knew a lot
of people there and we had a lot of fun. Oh my gosh! I had great memories
there. I wonder if you know this doctor, His name is Dr. Arturo Mar.
He used to be an anesthesiologist there in Phillips Memorial Hospital.
I saw your name because I was also looking if Phillips Memorial Hospital
has a website. Isn't it great to remember all these things there in Phillips,
Bukidnon.
Now I am here in Florida. From Phillips Memorial Hospital I went directly
to Belgium, Europe and worked there for 10 years but really I don't like
the cold damp weather so we move now here in Florida.
I hope to hear from you and recall memories in Phillips Memorial Hospital
friends and staff there.
Your new friend,
Leticia Quiblat Gonsette, R.N.
Date sent: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:48:36 +1000
From: Fred Wilesmith
Subject: Mindanao
Hi Hans.....
All I can say is Fantastic ! ! ! on your segment on Mindanao.
I am married to a Filipina from Mindanao for 20 years the region she comes
from is Misamis Oriental you are so lucky to travel to those places you
have stated on the net...... I am envious, I have only been there three
times but have spent most of it with my wifes family and relatives and
some are at Bukidnon.
I love the area and like to explore it and bit of an adventurer unfortunately
my wife holds me back because at times she feels it`s a bit dangerous on
where I like to travel.
Places I have visited as far as Iligan, Camiguin, Cagayan de Oro, Bukidnon
(where my wife's brother is a police superintendant) Malabalay and a little
further on.....I too am interested in their culture , unfortunately I always
seem to time it wrong when the Fiesta`s are being held. I have found them a
very friendly and loving people , I am also a Mason and visit the Lodges
whenever I`m there. I would imagine you like me would find it difficult
to leave there when the time is up to go back home, it cuts me to pieces
when we have to leave.................
There is one place I really would like to go to and that is the Muslim area
I have a brother-in-law in Cotabato but my wife wouldn`t allow me to travel
there because she frightened mainly of the conflicts there.................
I`ll finish of for now I hope this e-mail finds you ok .............
Date sent: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:32:04 -0800
From: Samir Aragon
Subject: Philippine wildlife
Good day!
I'm a Filipino who is very much concerned about our environment. I'm
planning to put up an educational website featuring philippine wildlife and
I'm soliciting contributions from other concerned individuals. my vision
for the site is for it to be a repository of photos accompanied by
information and testimonials from people who have been with wildlife,
whether in captivity or in the wild.
I've been to your website and saw a picture of the kalaw. In this regard,
I was wondering if you can share your photos of wildlife found in my country.
The pictures will be properly attributed to you or to the copyright owner
and all rights to the pictures will remain yours. I'm also incorporating
them in a program called flash so that they can't be copied or downloaded
outside my website.
My website is for educational purposes and it is a personal concept.
I'm not part of any group and the site is non-commercial.
I'm hoping for your positive response. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Samir Aragon
Date sent: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:34:24 +0100
From: Vivian Echeminada Kristiansen
Subject: Good work
It was a great job you have done. I actually came from Bukidnon from the
town of Impasugong. I'm impressed about the information you have published.
At least it will help some other people to understand and appreciate the
Filipino culture. Have you been to the Phils. lately? I'm sure you will be
surprised how things had changed. Especially in Kalabugao and Hagpa
area. Anyway I just to tell you... Keep up the good job and more power to
you.
from
Vivian
Date sent: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:15:13 +1000
From: David Marsden-Ballard
Subject: Your Website Pictures of the Phillipines
Dear Hans,
this is a truly excellent website
I went looking for the Bontoc culture, as I am a Permaculture designer and
wanted to include the Bontoc terraces in a lecture later on today.
I do all my lectures in Powerpoint slideshow, using a combination of
narrative and graphics, (graphical metaphors) so that my images always
support the text.
Your photographs are spectacular and the info with them interesting,
inspiring and at times tragic.
Thank you for your efforts in making these available to the world
community
Cheers,
David
David Marsden-Ballard
Environmental Educator & Doctoral Student
School of School of Professional & Environmental Design
University of Canberra, Australia
Date sent: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:45:17 +0800
From: Elmer I. Nocheseda
Subject: BUAYA
Good work!
I really appreciate the passion and attention you have given to an
otherwise unappreciated aspect of our national culture.
I am doing a research on the "pasubo" dance ritual of the pateros
"Catholic" Sta Marta fiesta where there is much street dancing and
throwing of food offerings to the river which they call as "pasubo". That
is feeding through the mouth the buaya or crocodile.
The ritual is now explained by Catholic textures but I believe that it is
more primal and it has more deep-rooted origin rather the more recent cult
of santa marta which were introduced by the spanish conquistadores.
I would appreciate if you could enlighten me with more specific examples
of dances, songs, instruments, gadgets that may refer to the "buaya" as a
form of reverence, respect, adoration, fear, atonement or pacification.
I would appreciate your information.
Elmer I. Nocheseda
Date sent: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:32:43 -0400
From: Rosemary Burke
Subject: Land rights of Mandayan people
Do you have any information or referrals concerning the land rights of the
Mandayan people? have you heard about disputes of land ownership between
the Mandayans and multinational industries? Do you know who these
industries are and where their head offices are located? Thank you for any
information. I represent a church group trying to help the Mandayan's
purchase back their ancestral rainforest lands. Thank you for any help and
advice.
Date sent: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 13:58:42 -0700
From: Sylvia Okinlay-Paraguya
I got through your website because I was looking for the resume of Rudy
Rodil of Kalinaw Mindanaw.
Just drop by to say how happy I was of seeing your website. I am a
Higaonon from Impasugong, Bukidnon. I have my own website but it is due
for development. I have called my website tribuhigaonon. I also intend to
put something which will help preserve our culture as a tribe.
I pass by Guilang-guilang when I visit Hagpa and Kalabugao. Anyway, just
saying I'm glad.
Auf weidersehen!. Is this right?
Salamat tungkay,
SYLVIA OKINLAY-PARAGUYA
Date sent: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 01:00:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Erwin Cabucos
Hi:
I like your website, best website I've seen so far about Camiguin Island.
I am from the Cotabato region, specificaly, Kabacan Cotabato and I was
reminded of my Camiguin trip via Bukidnon and Cagayan last year by your
Bbukidnon features. Superb.
I am currently authoring a website: http://my.treeway.com/Philfiction.
It's a collection of short fiction about and from the Philippines -
contemporary fiction only. I am wondering if you could give me some of
your Mindanao photos to include in my site.
Regards,
Erwin Cabucos.
phone +61 2 9425 2329
Fax +61 2 9425 2399.
==
Erwin Cabucos is a part time short story writer. To read or subscribe
samples of his works, visit: http://my.treeway.com/Philfiction
Date sent: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 00:41:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chiara Victoria Melendez
Subject: Bukidnon
Your website was shared to me by Alan Geoghegan, a website resource
person of Christianity 2000 Conference. I would like to express my
deep appreciation for your work with the Bukidnons.
My interest in your website is quite profound as I am 50% Bukidnon
by birthright. Am not sure now if it is 50% or 25%, but I will try
to figure it out some how. My great grand father and uncles were
the early magnates of Malaybalay, Bukidnon who were converted to
Christianity during the colonization of the Philippines by Spain.
My dad was the first Bukidnon lawyer of the province whose passion
was to help uplift the plight of his own people. He was one of the
framers of our Philippine Constitution (1934-1935) and espoused the
problems prevalent at that time.
Your research which was collaborated with Xavier University is very
remarkable. Your work has been quite extensive as it covered pockets of
information on many provinces of Mindanao. You, of course, know that
Cagayan de Oro City which is in Misamis Oriental was once part and parcel
of Bukidnon and vice-versa. A research on the folklore and traditions
of the Bukidnon tribes had been conducted by Dr. Carmen Ching Unabia at
about the same period you may have done yours and she was equally
interesting in her literary presentation.
She gave insight as to where the word "Mindanao" came from and it would
be timely to film a movie out from her work.
Perhaps one day, we could collaborate a project. Right now, an organization
named Association of Bukidnons in America, based in New York, is into a
project entitled: Spotlight...on Bukidnon" It is a coordinated photo
contest on the eco-tourist spots of the province of Bukidnon. The judging
of the contest will take place on September 10 here in New York City and
you are most welcome to attend and be our special guest. I happen to be
the association's Coordinator for Cultural Affairs. It has indeed
energized me to think that I have a legacy to put forth into fruition.
Do get in touch....
Regards and best wishes .
Chiara
Date sent: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 19:15:22 GMT
From: Alan Geoghegan
Subject: Bukidnon, etc
Dear Hans,
I enjoyed looking through your home-page, it was very interesting: I have
been going to the Philippines for video production work since 1989 and
recently have developed a video project to document the Tiboli Tribe in
Mindanao for a documentary intended for educational purposes.
Sadly, this project has been delayed due to the continuing problem with
the peace order situation, though I might go over next Christmas if the
area stabalizes.
I have also made contact with a revered Datu from Augusto Del Norte,
who'se tribe at some point I may document as well.
I spent 1993-1997 living and working in the Philippines and it was a very
interesting experience, to say the least.
My girlfriend, who is still over there, though who will join me here in
South Carolina, was born in Bukidnon!
Thank you for this wonderful information.
If you wish, you may go to my personal web-site, where I have placed an
article on the Tiboli and a Philippine gallery, which may interest you,
Best Regards,
Alan Geoghegan
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Date sent: Sun, 21 May 2000 08:52:58 +0200
From: Evangeline Abasula Karlsson
Subject: Greetings
Hey, how are you, I am Evangeline Abasula Karlsson grown up in Kisolon,
Bukidnon married to a Swedish living now in Sweden. I was very much
excited when I happened to open your homepage and I saw some of the people
in the picture coming from my neighboring towns like Guilang-Guilang.
I have been with my brother-in-law who is the Mayor in Impasug-ong. I have
seen that old guy from Dumalaging name Ayukan he visited there at my brother-
in-law's house he called that Tatay because his roots are from Dumalaging.
He wrote to me that they change now their Kaamulan to March because it's
summertime and there is not so much rain in that month. He is the organizer
of the Rodeo in Bukidnon. My mom is a native Bai Malomo in Sumilao, Bukidnon.
She always represents in behalf of the natives in the town of Sumilao as a Non-
Government Representative. She is very active up to this time. She is always
fighting for the Resevation of Mt. Kitanglad and Ancestral Domain. I have seen
also in the picture that Damay. I went swimming there with my friends
in summertime. How nice to see some more of your other pictures next time.
Do you know somebody named Jack Catarata who is married to a German lady
based now in Davao? Extend my warm regards okey but keep the lion share.
Bye for now. Can you please write me back.
Sincerely yours,
Vangie
Date sent: 29 Oct 99 20:33:08 -0800
From: Robert Barbeau
Hello Hans
enjoying checking out your page on asian music--I can see you've plenty of
work into it and it's something that you can be proud of---I also have an
interest in the different cultures and ethnic music around the world----
There is a program I listen to on co-op radio sometimes on Sundays (Tibetan
throat singing for instance) I'm in Vancouver, Canada way over on the
westcoast (or wetcoast as some say)
ciao for now and we'll visit again
Robert Barbeau
Date sent: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:10:30 +0800
From: Agnes Williams
Subject: photos of mindanao tribes
Thank you for sharing your experiences with the people of my country of
origin. I smiled when I saw the photo of the fisherman with his little
daughter. My father used to trap crayfish with a similar contraption but
made of rattan, baited with roasted coconut meat!
I downloaded the realvideo kulintang file and will try to open it with
what I have available.
Regards from someome who used to live in Mindanao too,
Agnes L. Reynes-Williams
A.L.Reynes-Williams
areynesw@ozemail.com.au
N.S.W. Australia
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~areynesw/arw/pages
The Orchid Shed
http://www.ozemail.com.au./~agnesrw/agsrw/orchidsp/welcome.html
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes,
but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
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Date sent: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:37:04 +1000
From: Richard Atencia
Subject: Bukidnon & Mindanao
Hans,
I am very grateful to you for taking keen interest in the life, music, etc.
of the people of Bukidnon and Mindanao.
Your research and pictorials are all excellent portrayal of the place and
its people.
Your dedication and hardwork are manifestations of your love and affection
of the people and the place.
Hans, may you have more fruitful visits to the Philippines and God Bless
You for your work.
Ric Atencia
Sydney, Australia
From January until April 1999, the Hans Brandeis Homepage,
including this Guest Book, was not accessible.
Date sent: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:03:05 +0300
From: Ballay, Robert E.
Subject: Your Home Page
Greetings
I've lost track of how many times I visited your Home Page.
My most recent was in planning a trip to Camiguin, which I have now
completed.
I've also seen your statistical summary, and noticed that there are no
'hits' from Saudi Arabia. Although I'm an American, I do live/work here in
Saudi Arabia, and accessed your Home Page from my desktop PC. Perhaps our
server is located somewhere other than here in Dhahran. In any case, I've
enjoyed your Home Page many times in the past, and plan to many times in the
future
Happy Holidays
Robert Ballay, PhD
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
23 Dec 98
Date sent: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 13:03:12 +0100
From: Jakob Andersen
Thanks for the look at your nice pictures from Mindenao.
Regards Mila & Jakob
http://hjem.get2net.dk/nipahut/
Date sent: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 19:01:01 EST
From: Laurence T. Gayao, M. D.
Subject: Thank you
I am a native Bukidnon, and seeing your pictorial and literary depiction of my
tribe makes me nostalgic of my childhood when I was exposed to my fore-parents
customs. I have lived in the West for a quarter of a century and still long
for the tranquility back home. Thanks to you I am thinking of retiring back
home in a few years. Your just enforced my constant longing to be close to
mother nature.
Laurence T. Gayao, M. D.
Mansfield, Texas
Date sent: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:34:41 +0800
From: Rocelyn Dee
Subject: Mindanao architecture
Hello Mr. Brandeis
I am an architecture student here in the College of Architecture University of the
Philippines - Diliman. I am currently doing my thesis on Mindanao architecture.
While researching on the Internet, I came across your website and another article you
wrote on the culture of the Mindanao. I was hoping you can provide me with
information about the architecture of the region.
Any information you can provide me will be helpful in my database compilation.
Perhaps, you can also refer me to someone knowledgeable about the subject here in the
country that we can interview. Thank you.
Rocelyn Dee
Date sent: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:56:17 -0500
From: Silvio Gargiuli
Subject: mindanao and monitor lizards
Hello Hans:
I enjoyed your site immensely. Your photographs express a realism and
candidness that brings one into the lives of these splendid people. And
your love of conservation shines brightly like the sun. How refreshing.
I would love to see the rest of the study one day. Let me know if you
ever make that CD!
I am writing to ask you several questions regarding indigenous monitor
lizards of Mindanao. I am a conservation biologist working exclusively
with the monitor lizard, Varanus salvator cumingi of Mindanao. I am
wondering if you, by chance, took any photos of this magnificent animal
and/or could tell me anything at all regarding this lizards ecology. As
a quick description, this lizard is striking with a lemon yellow head,
neck and chest. It is medium size (avg.total length - 150cm.) and fairly
aggressive. It is most present near water bodies whether mangrove
swamps, rivers or coastline. If you need pics, I can send. As a
conservation biologist, I am building a database for this animal and any
info I can get is very precious. I haven't been to Mindanao yet but
will be going next year for my first time. In the meantime, I try to
obtain as much info as possible and one of the best ways is by asking
photographers who have spent time on the island.
I look forward to your reply as I am assuming that you must have at
least observed one animal between 76 and 93.
Warmest regards,
Eric Pesci
Date sent: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 08:55:53 -0700
From: Fred Magdalena
Subject: Hans Webpage
Hi Hans,
Nice pictorials of the lumads! I wish I have a sound blaster in my PC so
I can access the sounds of your ethnic music.
Actually I have visited you site twice already, as I am a member of
Mindanao-list.
Lately, I read Oona Paredes's article on the Higaunon (Kinaadman, 1998).
She cited your website as a reference for those wishing to analyze
this tribe and others from Bukidon. I now realized that you have really
made a great contribution on the ethnic minorities in central Mindanao.
As you may know, I am a sociologist (Ph.D. Hawaii, 1977). It is only
now that I begin to do research on ethnic groups in Mindanao, particularly
the "lumads" (their term for themselves). I am finishing
up a manuscript on ethnohistory of Moroland for publication as a book.
Keep up the good work!
Fred Magdalena
Mindanao State University
Marawi City, Philippines
Date sent: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 22:36:12 -0700
From: Maria
Subject: Xavier University
Hello and good morning to you. I accidentally log on to your web page and I find the
items very interesting. I was born in Mambajao, Camiguin Island and spent one year
(my first year od College) here in Xavier University. I always remember the year as
very rewarding and full of eye opening experiences. I am now residing in San Mateo,
Ca. I also have a daughter now in college and whatever information I could gather of
my college years I let her know about them.
Sincerely,
Maria
Date sent: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:49:32 -0500
From: Randy Mojica
Subject: Congratulations for a job well done!
Born and raised in Mindanao, I rarely had the chance to visit those
wonderful places that you went to. However, seeing all your wonderful
photographs, I surely would try to visit some of the remote areas in
southern Philippines on my next trip home. Mindanao is truly the most
beautiful part of the country and your pictures have brought justice to the
island. Thank you for featuring my home. More power to you, sir. God
bless.
Date sent: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:39:22 EDT
From: Mahalo Nui Loa
Subject: You did a great job!!!
Aloha Hans,
I was amazed about your website. I was born in Talakag Bukidnon and raised
in Katipunan, Villanueva Misamis Oriental and now residing in Hawaii. Just to
let you know that you did a good job. Keep up the good work.
Mahalo Nui Loa,
Date sent: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 06:57:43 -0000
From: Robert Ballay
Subject: thank you
hans,
I have found your excellent www site on your philippine travels, and wish
to say how much I enjoyed it.
I live/work in saudi arabia and normally travel to the philippines about
three times per year. your photos and descriptions give me ideas on new
places to visit.
thank you
robert ballay
16 aug 98
dhahran
saudi arabia
Date sent: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 12:28:03 -0000
From: Robert Ballay
Subject: thank you
sir / madam
I enjoyed your camiguin photographs very much
I am an american who lives/works in saudi arabia, and go to the philippines
about three times per year for vacation. I am targeting camiguin for my
next trip, and found that your photographs make it look very worthwhile
thank you
robert ballay
dhahran
saudi arabia
Date sent: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:30:29 EDT
From: Chuchi Constantino
Subject: greetings
dear mr. & mrs. brandeis,
greetings from n.j., usa!
I saw the beautiful photos of hibok hibok from your website (causing
homesickness naturally). I was born in camiguin but raised in cebu city.
growing up we always summered in mambajao and sagay. I always make it
a point to visit the island whenever I go back to the philippines. my
parents have retired there and I still have tons of relatives over there.
again I wish to express my appreciation for those photos.
regards,
chuchi constantino
Date sent: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:36:22 EDT
From: R. J. Melendez
Subject: Inquiry
Dear Hans,
I'm a member of the ethnic tribe of Bukidnon, currently doing post graduate
studies in Cultural Anthropology in one of the prestigious universities
in Florida.
The reason I'm sending you this message is to get input on your research work
in Bukidnon in the field of ethnic music. I have a firm belief that you would
be able to help me in the last stages of my academic work.
If you have the chance feel free to contact me by e-mail.
Sincerely,
R. J. Melendez
Date sent: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 01:46:46 -0700
From: Leticia Quiblat Gonsette
Subject: visited your web site
Hi,
My name is Laticia Quiblat Gonsette. I was born in Catarman, Camiguin,
lived in Cagayan de Oro, studied nursing in Cebu City, worked in Phillips
Memorial Hospital, then went to Belgium, Europe to work as a Nurse, then
came here with my Belgian husband to Florida to practice our professions.
I lived in Europe for ten years.
I was looking if Phillips Memorial Hospital, in Delmonte, Bukidnon had a
web site but I was not able to find it. I still have friends there.
Well, this is all for now and I really enjoyed discovering your web site.
Sincerely,
Leticia
Date sent: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 21:07:34 +0800
From: Sam Acosta, with alternate address
Organization: Department of Labor and Employment
Subject: You've got a great work.
This is one fantastic web-site. Truly, I admire the talent and effort
of the one who made it. Congratulations and hoping to see more web-sites
like this. :)
Date sent: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:22:06 EDT
From: Ric Serrano, with alternate address
Subject: Your Home Page re: Mindanao
Hello!
My name is Ric Serrano and I am a Pilipino-American living in San Francisco,
California. I was born in Manila, Philippines but emigrated to the United
States when I was five years old. About four years ago, I toured the islands
of Mindanao and Basilan with a modern dance company called "Kulintang Arts"
comprised of Asian Americans. The dance and music directors of the company
had previously studied the dance and music forms of the southern Philippines
and created a fusion of modern dance and jazz and kulintang. We received a
grant to continue more research and we were able to visit the Yakan people on
Basilan and the Maguindanao, T'boli, and Maranao peoples on Mindanao. It was a
thrilling experience! I haven't yet gone through every item on your home page but
thought I would sign your guest book first. I look forward to looking through your
wealth of information and to exchanging any stories, experiences, or information
you might want from me.
Thank you for your wonderful home page!
Ric Serrano.
Date sent: Wed, 06 May 1998 09:54:38 -0700
From: Dan Brennan
Organization: Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture
Subject: Message from Nova Scotia Canada
A project similiar to the one you wish to do for Mindanao was
accomplisehed by Helen Creighton of Dartmouth Nova Scotia nearly 50
years ago. She travelled Nova Scotia collecting and compiling folk
songs on an old wire tape recorder, and then A Wollensak. These were
transcribed made into a book, song sheets and many have been the basis
for Stan Rogers famous music of the sea. You shold try approaching the
Canadian International Development Agency at the Embassy in Manila for
dunding under the headings of Good Government and Women. As the
collection would help bring peace and harmony to the region, build pride
and could be a source of revenue and employment for women. Good Luck
Date sent: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:49:38 +0800
From: ermin pimentel
good day!
you have a good design of this particular web page (with the maranao
inspired design), but we can not read the text because they have the same
black color...please change the color of your design to something light or
pastel.
how can we make linkage with this program? our office is the social
involvement program of XU, just use this email account: kkp@xu.edu.ph,
thank you very much!
ermin pimentel
kkp program coordinator
Date sent: Fri, 01 May 1998 13:00:31 -0400
From: Ores Ting
Subject: mindanao tribes
While surfing the website, I have come across with your articles and
photos of mindanao tribes. According to what I have read you have a
collectrion of photos and traditional music of the various tribes in
Mindanao. I always wanted to visit the southern part of our country but
did not have the opportunity to do so. You are very fortunate to do so. I
was always fascinated about ther various tribes of Mindanao but never
has the opportunity to do it. So upon reading your articles, I was so
delighted.
As the Culture Coordinator of the Philippine Centennial Movement here in
Toronto, Ontario, I am very interested in inviting you to exhibit these
collections here in Toronto as part of our celebration of the Philippine
Centennial. I want to showcase these collections to raise awareness
and perhaps to better educate the rest of us Filipinos and Filipino
Canadians about the ethnic diversities and the various unique cultures
existing in our country.
My sister Georgina has been a long resident of Berlin, Germany. She
lived there for over 20 years, It was only this year that she moved back
to the United States with her husband. She is presently in Berlin visiting
her son and I have asked her if she could get hold of you.
I would appreciate if you could accept this invitation to exhibit your
collections here. Please let me know as I have to make arrangments for
the space to do it. Summer is a good month because people are out and
the weather here inOntario is great during summer time.
My email address:
tingor@gov.on.ca
Bus. (416) 235-5904)
Home address:
4038 Ellesmere Rd.
Scarborough, Ontario
M1C 1J5
Telephone (416) 208-7617
Hope to hear from you.
Sincerely yours,
Ores Ting
Date sent: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:50:49 +0800
From: Goudie Associates HK
kept it up !
Chelly
malaybalay
Date sent: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 18:22:48 CDT
From: Mai Lin FW
Subject: thank you for your wonderful page on the Mindanao people!
I am from a filipina living in the U.S. and your page brought
back memories and pride of my country. Thank you!
I would like to ask permission to put a link to your page; I am
new to homepages and I am working on one about my heritage.
My best wishes,
MaiLin
Date sent: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 11:31:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Joycelyn Espiritu
Subject: Inquiry
Hello!
My name is Joycelyn Espiritu. I am a Filipino-Canadian currently attending
the University of Alberta. I am looking for publications, articles
(anything!) on traditional Philippine music - that may cover
indigenous instruments, tonal systems, popular music etc. I understand you
have published many articles and perhaps you could direct me to useful
resources.
This is for an Ethnomusicology course I am taking with Dr. Regula Qureshi,
our Ethnomusicology department head.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Joycelyn Espiritu
Date sent: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:01:44 EST
From: Larry Weaner
Subject: Lumad of Mindanao
I am interested in learning about the culture and political predicament of the
Lumad in Mindanao, and in particular the Mandayan people. I am involved with a
small environmental group in the US which has become interested in assisting
these people regain some of their tribal lands. Any information that you could
provide would be most helpful and appreciated.
Thank you, L Weaner
Date sent: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 09:43:00 +0800
From: Miguel Pastelero
Hello. I just wanted to tell you that you have a very interesting and well mantained web
page. Keep it up!
Miguel Pastelero, Manila
Date sent: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 09:04:57 -0700
From: Cliff Richey
Subject: Bullfrog
Perhaps others have commented on this. While visiting my wife's family in San Simon (near
Caygayon de Oro) I saw many of these "frogs" in the grass. They were called "American
frogs" They are not frogs or bullfrogs but rather a toad. Bullfrogs live in the water while
Toads live on the land. The skin of toads is dry and covered with warts while a frog's skin
must be kept moist and is smooth.
The story I heard about the American frog was that it was imported because it is poisonous
when eaten. This was an attempt to poison the cobras in the area. It does not appear to
have completely succeeded because the cobras are still there, one having bitten my
brother-in-law last year.
We have such poisonous toads here in Arizona and some people (mostly teenagers) searching for
psychedelics lick the toad with their tongues. This has resulted in several deaths.
Thank you for exhibiting such interesting pictures of Mindanao and its people.
Cliff Richey
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Date sent: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 23:11:58 +0100
From: Jung Byungkee
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
Subject: Hi, ich suche...
Mein Name ist Byungkee Jung, aus Korea.
Deine Homepage ist sehr schoen und systematisch.
Ich suche ein CGI-programmiertes Gaestebuch. Es gibt aber an der FU
kaum.
Sag mir mal, wenn Du eine kennst. Meine Homepage lautet:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~kjung
Ciao.
Date sent: Tue, 02 Jan 1998 23:30:00 +0000
From: Tim Kline
Organization: Tim's Web
Subject: Great Site!
Your site has been a great help to me in planning my first trip to
Mindanao last March and agian in the planned trip for this March. I
have hundreds of pictures myself and think it is great that ¥ou have
yours online. Keep up the good work!
Tim Kline
Date sent: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:57:10 -0500
From: Mark Powell
Subject: Greetings from Princeton MA, US
Greetings Hans,
I just listened to the audio sampler in your home page. I will go to the
local music store and try and get it. I wrote you some time ago about my
own trips to the Philippines, I have sent people to your page so they can
see in your photographs what I've tried and failed to tell them. Nicely
done.
By the way, I tried to access the "Life and Death" photos without success,
is this something on my end or yours?
Keep up the great work.
Best,
MP
Date sent: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:51:53 +0800
From: Erwin Garingalao Navarro
Subject: Ethnic Music and SAOT
Guten Tag!
Vielen Dank fr Ihre Antwort! Actually I'm interested in studying as
many instruments as possible. Since I'm just learning how to analyze
sounds, single tones would suffice. The duration will already depend
on the instrument.
Regarding SAOT, have you tried contacting the National Commision on
Culture and Arts? I don't think they have that much money but I'm sure
they could help. Also, how about Soros? :) Just joking.
(Ich habe noch vergessen, wie den Brief zu enden.)
Erwin
Date sent: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:47:47 +0800
From: defaultuser
Subject: (no subject)
Hey u did a great job man....though I don't know much about
music....still I think ...it's really nice...I didn't know it was this good......
bye for now......
Date sent: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:21:34 -0800
From: MANNY (LT COL AHMAD)
Subject: LAND OF PROMISE
GLAD TO KNOW THAT A GERMAN IS VERY INTERESTED IN MINDANAO.
MY REGARDS TO THE PEOPLE OF KITAOTAO, MARAMAG AND KIBAWE.
MAY ALLAH BLESS THESE PLACES.
MANNY (LT COL AHMAD)
Date sent: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:46:19 +0800
From: Lee Verallo
Subject: Congratulations!
Your homepage is extremely informative and beautifully created!
Congratulations and thanks for the interest in the Philippines.
Lee
Date sent: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 18:30:16 +0800
From: Rosen Sambile
Subject: Bukidnon Tribes
Hi! I am a Grade 5 student of Miriam College in Manila. I am currently
doing a report on the Higaonon or Hihaunen tribe of Bukidnon and I
happen to read your trips and study about this tribe in the internet.
I am having difficulty getting materials on the specific tribe. Maybe
you can help me with some basic information about the tribe like their
ancestry, lifestyle and customs.
I will appreciate your help and thank you very much.
NIKI SAMBILE
Date sent: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 22:21:49 +0800
From: Chris / Konshus
Organization: KonshusPages
Subject: sounds
Do you have sound samples of the chanting or the music? I suggest that
you put them in so that we can have a better idea. Thank you.
-Chris
Date sent: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 18:37:35 +0200
From: Adriana Marin Grez
Subject: Guest book and music
Hi Hans Brandeis;
Could well be that we met before in person. I studied anthropology in
Berlin a couple of years ago. Though I never thought to delve into music
ethnography, I more or less ended up there by chance.
I am curently working for a music television channel - ONYX. It is in
Germny through cabel and through satelite (Eutelsat)
I am developping a show with music and information about music from a
world music point of view. You might be interested to get in touch,
considering your sound archive project.
My best wishes for your page and congratulations to have been able to
fight trough the zedat system. Either it was updated in the last two
years or you really are a pro. I never figured out how to use it for
e-mailing back then.
Adriana Marin Grez
Date sent: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:35:35 +0800
From: Geejay Arriola
Subject: Mindanao
Dear Hans,
I am Geejay Arriola from Davao City in Mindanao, Philippines and am a
member of the Kaliwat Theatre Collective which has done a deep and
extensive two-year land and culture research among the Manobo people of
Arakan Valley, North Cotabato. Our group combined dialogical theatre
methods and academic research implements (interview schedules and focus
group discussions) to conduct the research. The three major outputs of the
research are: 1) legal advocacy for the Manobo's struggle for ancestral
domain claim. The advocacy campaign led to the Manobo people's being
granted their Certificate for Ancestral Domain Claim (CADC) which is the
best the Philippine government could give to its indigenous peoples; 2) an
anthropological research book discussing the Manobo people's indigenous
traditions and the dynamics of their land and culture arising from
development aggression and invasion of the dominant culture (migrant
settlers); 3) a documentary dance-music theatre about the life and struggle
of the Manobo people.
If you are interested to find out about how we did all these and the
details of our involvement in the struggle of the indigenous peoples using
music, dance and theatre as points of entry and points of exit, so to
speak, you may contact our group through me.
But really, I wrote to ask you what you did with your research output apart
from putting some information about it in the web. Did you publish a book?
Did you write songs, etc. Also, I'm particularly interested in your
perspective about how your research has benefited the people of Bukidnon.
Please explain. I'm deeply interested.
And thank you very much for the interest in our country, Mindanao.
Geejay Arriola
Date sent: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 22:42:52 -0700
From: Rajanikant Josh
Subject: A message from Seattle, WA, USA of past remembrance
Hey Hans,
I was fooling around in the cyberspace and ran across your home page. I
don't know if you remember me but you visited my nipa hut in Malaybalay,
(in 1983 or 1984) with your brother-in-law or was it your friend, I don't
recall. My nipa hut was behind the Salang house. I was the US Peace Corps
volunteer of India background. I remembered your name "Brandeis" because
when you mentioned it, I said that there is an university named Brandeis in
Massachusetts.
Your home page sounds interesting. Wish I knew as much about Bukidnon as
you do even though I spent two years in Malaybalay.
I went back to Malaybalay in 1988 for a few days, but haven't been back
since--though I do miss the easygoing life.
Well, wish you the best!
Raj Joshi
Date sent: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:02:19 +0800 (PST)
From: Jay R. Fernandez
Subject: Re: Brandeis' HP
BTW, I just spoke before Junior IT students of Bukidnon State College. It
was all about the Internet. I did show them your page. Indeed, the
contents made them proud of their ancestral heritage. Cool page, too.
Would you mind if I link it to XUNEt's website?
BTW, XUNet's HP is at http://www.xu.edu.ph/xunet
Best regards and please do keep in touch.
===========================================================
Jay Robert C Fernandez
Xavier University Network Center (XUNet)
Cagayan de Oro City
jayf@xu.edu.ph
http://www.xu.edu.ph/jrf
===========================================================
Date sent: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 03:48:37 -0400
From: Elito Tanyag
Subject: thanks
I didn't know such pages existed in the web. I'm from the philippines
and I haven't been home for three years. I'm from manila; I've never
been to those places you had frequented. but you made me feel both proud
and sad. proud, because of my people's rich culture and sad, because we
have begun losing many of these traditions and natural riches. thanks
for preserving them at least in photographs and studies. keep up your
good work.
sincerely,
elito tanyag
new jersey, usa
Date sent: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 23:27:37 -0600
From: Frank
Hans:
I was wondering in your travels around Bukidnon if you ever was at a place
called Quezon Bukidnon. I am looking for information about a hospital St.
Ann Medical Hospital that is in this area. I am trying to find the
telephone number. I have viewed most all your photos of the area and they
are great !!!!!
Thanks
Frank
Date sent: Tue, 27 May 1997 09:13:05 -0400
From: M. Powell
Subject: Greetings
Greetings, wonderful photographs. I have traveled to this region of
Mindanao in the past, it was great to go back. Hope to see more.
Ethnomusicologist? I guess the name speaks for itself, another subject
I will delve into. About two years ago I came across a CD of African music,
Spirit of the Forest, I believe it was called, put together by an Australian
gentleman and his wife. This is probably the most beautiful and natural
music I have ever heard and my tastes run more towards Stevie Ray
Vaughn or Jimmy Buffett. I would like to explore ethnic music more
but at US superstore type outlets, you're really taking a chance.
I spent some time in Cebu last year but only heard American pop.
I did hear some local music four years ago in Talakag Bukidnon
and would like to hear more if you can steer me in the right direction.
Best,
MP
Date sent: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:00:51 +0900
From: junta shinozawa
Organization: kumusta communications Inc.
Subject: Kumusta!
KUMUSTA!
I'm Japanese and my wife and daughter are Filipinos. Your website is so
cool and informative. Thank you. Please keep it up.
BTW/ Please drop by our site of kumusta online for Filipinos and
Japanese.
junta shinozawa
Kumusta Magazine
http://www.kumusta.com/
MORE POWER TO YOU
Date sent: Tue, 13 May 1997 21:01:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: N. Ruelo
Subject: impressive homepage
I am philippine born and I am very impressed with your homepage. thanks for
featuring the beautiful PHILIPPINES.
if possible, may I ask you to add my homepage to your website? if not i
understand.
http://members.aol.com/nruelo/index.html
Date sent: Mon, 05 May 1997 15:41:27 -0400
From: Salazar
Subject: Philippine Music -- an appreciation
Here in Montreal we are preserving our philippine culture thru
songs and dances. My children are all members of the Filipiniana
Dance Company (Montreal). They toured USA and EUROPE
representing cultural dances of ethnic groups from Filipino
Canadian. For your job, I am pleased to read it. Great shots.
Don't you think you have to update it? Really I appreciate
your great job.
Sincerely,
fasalazar
e-mail: fasalazar@hotmail.com
Date sent: Fri, 02 May 1997 20:16:00 -0800
From: John Harber
Subject: Your Mindanao trip...
Dear Hans,
My name is John Harber, and I am a graduate student in Asian
Studies in Monterey, California. I came across your page while
searching out thesis ideas for my topic, and was wondering if I
could ask a couple of questions regarding your trip to Mindanao.
I am very much interested in the ARMM and the reaction
of the non-Muslims to the agreement. Did you detect any
overt hostilities to the ARMM, and if so, what may be the
ramifications? Is it possible that the agreements with the
government could backfire and cause less stability?
As you can tell, I am looking at the overall relationship between the
Muslims and Christians and any feelings you may have detected
(one way or the other) and could share with me would be greatly
appreciated. This is an informal request and I will not quote
you in any of my research... I am simply fishing out ideas to
see if I can justify a thesis topic concerning the Mindanao
situation. Thanks in advance.
Respectfully,
John Harber.
Date sent: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:16:11 -0800
From: Perla Fickenscher
Just a quick note to thank you for putting my homeprovince of Camiguin
Philippines on the internet. I visit the Philippines yearly, was in
Camiguin last December and it is as always, very relaxing.
Sincerely,
Perla Fickenscher
California USA
Date sent: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 12:04:29 +0800
From: Steven P. C. Fernandez
Subject: Thank you from Iligan
Dear Mr. Hans Brandeis,
This is a fantastic page and makes us want to learn more. May I download
some of your pictures for a lecture I am giving on Mindanao Artistic
Cultures?
I too have done a few works on the Higa-ununs of Rogongon, and have
transformed these in theater. The similarities are quite close - of
course with the direct affinities of these communities. Higaunun
dance-music forms include the saut, dugso-lagudas, binanog, kinukok,
kapangamote, anahaw, and the various musical forms related to these.
Are you familiar too with the epic hero Bato Lakungan that affiliates
with the Higa-unun and the people of Tagoloan, and the Maranao and
Maguindanao? He married a Higa-unun "princess" Kamayungan.
Thank you, and may I tell you that I share your interests.
STEVEN P.C. FERNANDEZ
MSU-IIT
Home Page: http://www.msuiit.edu.ph/ipag
Date sent: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:10:16 -0700
From: Titania Buchholdt
I saw your website several months ago, and it encouraged me to
continue searching the Net -- which is how I eventually found the
Mindanao-List! As for my interest in kulintang, I am a member of San
Francisco-based Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble, under the direction
Danny Kalanduyan. For details, take a look at the pages at:
http://www.sirius.com/~gbut/kulintang/kulintang.html
Titania
Date sent: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:54:02 -0400
From: Mike & Ging Agoncillo
Organization: Ging International, Inc.
Subject: bukidnon in may
hi hans!
read that you will be in bukidnon sometime this year. do you have a
definite date? hope to be able to get to know you and your wife.
I will be in malaybalay, bukidnon towards the end of may to attend the
wedding of my niece.
we have been on the cagayan list and have read your mails to us. it's only
now that I do have time to write you about how informative and most wonderful
I find the "BUKIDNON HOMEPAGE" you've done.
maybe, I can introduce you to my uncle, a priest, Fr. Miguel Bernad, sj
who has written a lot about the bukidnons. he also has them in their
native dialects.
hope we hear from you too!
gangging f. agoncillo
Date sent: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 09:50:59 -0600
From: Elizabeth Curry Williams
Subject: Philippine animals
Thank you for your web page. My five year old son has a fascination with
the Philippines and wanted to draw a poster for his bedroom with animals
from the Philippines. Your page was very helpful. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Williams,
Indianola, Iowa, U.S.A.
Date sent: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 00:14:22 -0800
From: Rick Ruelo
Subject: Guestbook Comments
Hans,
Congratulations Hans, well done. You are continually updating and
upgrading your website. I wish I could say the same thing for my website.
Incidentally, we created our homepages on the Net at almost the same
time back in April 1996. Your photos will remain as treasures and gems
on the Net and so with your papers and music. It will be a great
resource as you know for everyone. Don't let anybody tell you
otherwise.
If you ever need to find a place to stay in the Philippine islands and
be pampered after a long day of fieldwork - look me up at The Inns
at Provincial Philippines - where you'll find hospitality in lodging at
its best http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Oleur.
Thanks again Hans and keep right on it.
Rick Ruelo
The Inns At Provincial Philippines
Date sent: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 16:53:44 +1100 (EST)
From: Aileen B Dayao
Subject: Re: Mindanao Homepage of Hans Brandeis
hi =))
just to say I've visited your homepage... haven't had a chance to
fully explore it yet but what I've seen so far is great...
I'm hoping to link it to my philippines' sites homepage asap - my homepage
should be up in a couple of days.. if u get the chance to, visit it in a
week (it should be up by then *grin*) and write meeh what u think =))
a former phi-tv member, Aileen.
http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/~adayao
Date sent: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 15:32:43 EST
From: Joseph P. Macmang
Subject: bukidnon homepage
once more, let me state that hans brandeis is a true friend of the
filipino people! your efforts at documenting and recording the cultural
heritage of our mountain tribes deserve our accolade and support!
hopefully, by simply visiting your website we will show proof that
your work has touched us all and that the Internet will keep
this knowledge safe and intact for the next milleneum!
sincerely, joemac
Date sent: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 15:18:56 -0500
From: Lito Espinosa
Subject: New Look
Hi Hans,
Love the new look of your homepage. It's worth all the time and effort
pounding on that PC keyboard, etc.
Regards,
Lito Espinosa
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Date sent: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 23:57:43 -0800
From: Martin gino Prado
Subject: GINGOOG CITY
Dear Hans,
The pictures of Gingoog are very nostalgic to me because I grew up in
that small town. They are very beautiful and I missed the place a lot.
I am now in Connecticut, USA as a physician.
More power to you.
Martin Prado
Date sent: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:05:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Cheryl Wood
Subject: Interested
Dear sir:
My name is Cheryl Wood and I am with the Filipino Folk Arts Theatre in
Dallas, TX, USA. I am a performer with them but I am also an artist, helping
them design a booklet about Filipino culture. I am looking for advise on
where I could look for photos and ideas that I can use for reference in this
booklet. Their booklets before were very simple with just type and being an
artist, I want to make it as creative and exciting as best of my ability with a
minimal cost. I am new with the group but as I understand, there goal is to
promote the Filipino arts. They are very diverse by doing Spanish inflenced,
rural/barrio, and Muslim dances. They also do television shows via a local cable
access show about the Filipino culture. They do singing and dancing and have been
putting out material about the Filipino culture. They are sponsored by the city of
Dallas and I want to help them promote the arts in a more creative manner than
they have been doing. As I said, I am new with this group and although a
Filipino-American, I still have a lot to learn about the culture. Any suggestions
or if you know where I could find pictures and subjects I could use for reference
would be very helpful to me. I thank you in advance for your time and effort.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Wood
Date sent: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:02:55 -0800
From: Rita Lomas
Subject: Bukidnon, Philippines
Hi!
It's heartwarming to see some of your photos of the people from Bukidnon. I
was born in the Philippines but never really got to know the whole country.
What I have seen and experienced have been limited to Luzon. I wish that I
could have traveled to the other two main islands.
The Philippines is a beautiful country, and its people are as beautiful and
exotic.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
Date sent: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:11:10 -0800
From: Leila Short
Subject: bukidnon
Hello! My name is Leila Short and a student at Mankato State
University, Mankato,MN. I happened to surf in your article and
got interested with it...I'd like to know how you got interested
with the different natives in Bukidnon and have documented them.
Date sent: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:11:34 -0500
From: Germanito P. Balacuit
Were you able to study the music composed by the people in the mountain?
I am talking about the brainy people not the native. These communists have
their unique way of expressing their ideology through music in an ethnic
way. They sound good and contain good and superb meaning. If you are well
verse in bisaya or tagalog languages you will appreciate the tone of this
music. I am not a communist (I abhor their idea of killing including your
family for the sake of the communist truth). I likewise hate the cancer in
Philippines society that has gone worst vis., corruption. I bet you
encounter this when you arrive at the airport in Manila. This is what the
mountain people are talking about in their music, Corruption and Equal
justice. And they convey it in a very locale and native way. By the way
what is your aim or motive being an ethnomusicologist? Do you study
native music just to study how it develops and to preserve it, or are you
also into searching for the meaning, the truth, and the ethical or
metaphysical aspect of this music. I think you are beyond aesthetic
appreciation of this music.
You are always talking about the music of the native people in the
mountains and the remotely developed areas of the Philippines. Try the
songs of the coastal plains especially those that are untouched by
technology (no electricity and no telephone) like in the towns in Misamis
Oriental such as Balingasag, Jasaan, Kinoguitan, Balingoan, Talisayan (these
towns have electricity already but they still have hidden native seaside
people songs, just talk to the old people over there) and most especially
the province of Camiguin.
They have very good seafaring old native songs. I am from Talisayan anyway
and I moved to CDO in the seventies. Now, I am in New Jersey. E-mail me
if you are interested.
Tot zin.
Date sent: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 07:11:45 -0800
From: Joseph P. Macmang
Subject: great work
congratulations, hans brandeis!
you have put my people on the interrnet!
downloading from xu was quick...I enjoyed all the hibok-hibok photos!
let me inform the rest of my fellow cagayandeoro listmembers about your
website! I am sure you will have 500 hits in no time!
good luck to your future trips!
joemac@cyberservices.com
joe-mac@worldnet.att.net
818-752-2454
Date sent: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 00:35:25 -0000
From: James D. Chandler
Subject: Pictures
Hans,
Thanks for having a web site and the great pictures. I haven't had the
chance to view them all, but those I have are wonderful. I am currently using
the rainbow of Bukidnon as my desktop background. Haben Sie ein gutes Neues
Jahr!
James D. Chandler
Date sent: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 11:57:02 -0600
From: Dennis Schwabe
Subject: Your visits to the Phillipines
Dear Hans,
Was searching via WEB for ART Presentation and stumbled across your WEB
page. You don't know how excited I was to find it BECAUSE I adopted two
Philippines boys from Mindanao. Out of interest did you by chance run across
anyone by the name Burey?
Sincerely,
Dennis Schwabe
dennisr.schwabe@attworldnet.att.net
Date sent: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:26:17 +0800
From: Rudy Buhay Rodil
Hi Hans,
Last week, I accessed your home page. I was so fascinated by
the photographs that I thought I should share them, even if in
black and white, with my students and fellow teachers. So, in
my enthusiasm I printed the text and the photos, including the
enlarged photos. I am especially impressed by the quality of
the photographs ... such that I felt like touching each. Very
magnetic in effect. You were really good, Hans.
Now that I have recovered my sobriety, I want to apologize for
printing them without first asking your permission and
planning on showing them around in school. May I proceed with
my plan, Hans?
Meri Krismas to you.
Ompong
==========================
Rudy Rodil
E-mail : rsamil@iligan.com
==========================
Date sent: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:25:48 +0100 (CET)
From: Arjen Treurniet
Subject: Music-instruments of Bukidnons/Manobos
Good day sir.
I am a student of 'Rural development sociology', with a specialization in
anthropology, from the Wageningen Agricultural University in Holland, and I
have read and watched your sites on the internet about Bukidnons and Manobos with
much interest, since I myself have been to Mindanao, to conduct a research on some
aspects of the worldview of (Tala ingod) Manobos. I have been for six months in
'Lumabag' (Tala ingod area), on a 'modelfarm' where we had Manobos from Tala
ingod, Lang ilan, Tigwa, and Matig Salug areas. Besides that I have lived for some
time in Bialong, a very much isolated village, deep in Tala ingod area.
I have several questions, to ask you. Could you please comment on them (since you
are more or less the only academic person I know of who has been in Manobo area),
if you can.
-- How far are Lumad and Manobos related to each other? The NGO I worked
for never mentioned Lumad people even when they are working for more than ten
years in the area. They speak of 'Bukidnon'-Manobos as if they are the only tribe
present there? (It might be that they didn't talk about it, since I never asked of
course...)
-- Besides that, the clothes of Lumad people on your pictures are much like
the clothes of Manobos on the photographs of Garvan in his ethnography about
Manobos. Do you have an explanation for that?
-- Then I have some comments/questions on music-instruments. You mention
somewhere on one page of your site the 'kebing' as a instrument. I know this
instrument amongst the Manobos as 'Kubing', is it the same instrument?
Then there is a picture of a 'kudiyapi' amongst your pictures. It looks much
like a 'kuglung' amongst the Manobos (although there are some differences).
This kuglung is played by a man, mostly accompanied by a woman who plays
the 'saluroy', a harp-like five-string bamboo instrument. As far as I am told,
these two instruments are played together, and the man and woman perform a
dance which symbolizes the chicken and cock. During the dance the woman will
perform chanting.
-- The 'Saluroy' is also played by men, during which they will sing also.
-- Then I know os a rithme-instrument 'Bankakol', a wooded log, which is
hanging between posts, and on which up to -say- five people (originally women;
nowadays also men) will perform rithme-music with their rice-pounding sticks and
other sticks.
Did you know these instruments? Could you please react on my questions?
Thanks
Arjen Treurniet
via happymail!
Date sent: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 14:26:44 -1000
From: Dan Saren
Subject: Photos of minorities in Mindanao
Dear Hans,
You did a good job in presenting various photos of the minorities in
Mindanao. I greatly enjoyed them and am grateful that someone placed
them on the Net.
Aloha,
dan p saren
Date sent: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:32:21 -0500
From: Joann Schmarr
Subject: excellent photos
I enjoyed seeing your excellent photos of my native Philippines. Especially
the ones you took in my hometown of Gingoog City, Mindanao.
Hope you get to return many more times and I hope you publish your CD of
Photos.
Thanks,
Joann
wife of BSchmarr@AOL.com
Date sent: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:02:11 -0500
From: Mark S. Bounds
Subject: Pictures
Dear Sir,
My name is Mark S. Bounds I am a Missionary getting ready to go to
the Philippines. I saw some of your pictures of the Philippines and I am VERY
interested in seeing every thing you have could you e-mail me about how I can
see what you have. I would really appreciate it.
MBounds777@aol.com
Thank you VERY MUCH.
Date sent: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:06:37 +1100
From: Sam Bibawi
Hi Mr. Hans,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, I have noticed the picture of an old man from Impasug-ong, and I went
through your homepage (just I received your message), to check and see the
picture of Fr. Cullen and I saw it. I have known, Fr. Cullen and Fr. Ed for
long time, infact Fr. Cullen speaks fluently our language. The people from
Impasug-ong used to love him very much. He was one of the best priest in our
place, I didn't know when he died. Fr. Ed has been transfer to another place.
I remember long time ago, I forgot what is the date exactly, but I noticed
there is one German came to Impasug-ong and stayed in the convent, I'm not
sure if it was you, I remember that he became friend to Mirasol Valenzuela.
Maybe you met my father, he used to attend the pangampu ceremony his name is
Conrado Libayao.
Anyhow, thanks again for your answer and I will be visiting your homepage
often, I will look forward for some pictures.
Regards,
Phoebe
Date sent: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:59:09 -0800
From: Sam Bibawi
Organization: LSC-Australia
Subject: Great Job
Hi, I am from Impasug-ong Bukidnon and living now in Sydney, Australia.
I was very happy to read your homepage, it makes me feel home sick.
You did a great job. I hope you will be able to write more about
Impasug-ong. Keep up the good work.
Phoebe Libayao Bibawi
Date sent: Sat, 02 Nov 96 13:46:14 PST
From: Mila D. Aguilar
Subject: Calling Hans on Filipino music
Hans, thanks a whole lot for the information! I learned so much in
one sitting! So the challenge then is for someone to put together
Filipino music on a server the way Pierre Schwob has done with
classical European music. There should be some takers somewhere,
di ba?
Mila Aguilar
Manila Standard/Institute for Filipino Cinema
http://www.phil-reporter.com/pinoytok
http://www.sequel.net/~pinoytok
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6029
Date sent: Thu, 31 Oct 96 19:03:08 PST
From: Mila D. Aguilar
Subject: Calling Hans on Filipino music
Hans,
You are just the man I'm looking for.
I would like to put in some Filipino tribal music, just a short one, for my
web page, if at all possible.
Would you know if there are any existing digitized ones?
If so, would you know the html code needed to make them play on a
web page onstream -- that is, without having to be manually loaded?
Thanks!
Mila
Manila Standard/Institute for Filipino Cinema
http://www.phil-reporter.com/pinoytok
http://www.sequel.net/~pinoytok
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6029
Date sent: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 17:43:10 -0700
From: Rick Ruelo
Subject: great Homepage -- great!!
Hans,
I surfed your HP today... everything's looking great. Also, my name
matched up with your HP entry in Yahoo. Could you tell me how did you
do this?
Rick Ruelo
The Inns At Provincial Philippines
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Oleur
Date sent: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 16:04:30 +0800
From: Apollo B Dimayuga
Subject: Just a Short Note to Thank You
The captions and photographs are very useful for my child's research into
ethnic tribes in the Philippines. It was a suprise to find a web site from
about this subject from the other side of the world.
Your site is very interesting even from a Filipino like me!!
Again, Thank You Very Much and best wishes.
Date sent: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 23:38:37 -0500
From: Manuel Charles E. Altonaga Jr
Subject: thanks for some interesting location
Sir,
It is great that I have seen the past of my life.
It is also good to knew that somebody has taken the time to record the
events and changing culture of the lower part of the Philippines.
I've lost the culture of the nomadic life in Mindanao even though I was
raised there...
I am also fascinated that a German showed interest on cultural history.
Thank you for doing this... at least it has some sort of records for
future referrences.
As of today I cannot capture of what I was... I do remember some but no
edge on it. I sometimes dream about living a simple nomadic life, but
I've lost so much 3/4 of my life as a westerner. Here today in a sort of
life in Texas, once a young boy who lived a simple nomadic life inside
the jungle of Mindanao...
DANKE!!!
Charles Noel Altonaga Jr. ///// cdo@flash.net
Date sent: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:52:14 +0200
From: Karl Aanonsen
Organization: University of Oslo
Subject: Comments and Ethnografic Question
Hans,
I have seen your contributions in the mindanao-list for a while.
Regarding your last question on your homepage, it looks really nice
with my browser. Your pages are really impressive, congratulations!
No doubt you have been working with DTP for some time. I'm sorry
I have no sound card on my computer, I would have enjoyed
to listen to their music. Also, I could have mailed some of my
own recordings to you.
I am studying social anthroplogy at the University of Oslo, though I am
not a usual student. I used to work as an computer engineer for many
years before I decided to change my life. We might be at about the same
age.
I made my fieldwork in the mountains of South Cotabato. Native poeple
there have many similar traits with the Bukidnon. Would you be prepared
to answer a question regarding your own observations?
When looking at your pictures, the similarity of the clothes is
striking. However, the colours are very different. I noticed only
embroidered clothing on your pictures, none of woven hemp (abaca). My
question is related to this. Have you ever seen or heard about woven
clothes, like those of the Bagobo further south? A Filipino
anthropologist (Reyes) maintains that woven clothes have not been in use
further north then the Bagobo near Mt. Apo. I believe he might be right,
so it would be nice if your observations could support his statement.
Best regards,
Karl
http://www.sv.uio.no/~karlaa/
Date sent: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 21:33:52 -0700
From: Studio P@eng
Subject: your homepage
hi hans,
Conrado and I were just visiting your homepage. good fun - but...
some links lead into -nowhere?-.
how about an update ;-)
P@eng and Conrado
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RSchulz/
Date sent: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 21:21:19 +1300
From: Joop Teernstra
Organization: Terabytes of New Zealand
Subject: I made a link to your page
Hello Hans,
I admired your page and took the liberty to include a link on one of my
pages. Would you like to take a look at mine at some time and see if it is
worthy for a link from your side?
Best regards,
Joop Teernstra
http://www.serve.com/terastra
Date sent: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:13:41 -0700
From: Mila D. Aguilar
Organization: Institute for Filipino Cinema, Inc.
Subject: Your Music
Hello Hans!
Finally, I got to your webpage! Your music looks interesting, though I
don't think I can afford it! I am curious, though. How about putting a
sample of it on your web page?
Mila Aguilar
Manila Standard/Institute for Filipino Cinema
http://www.phil-reporter.com/pinoytok
http://www.sequel.net/~pinoytok
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6029
Date sent: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 20:05:56 -0700
From: Abe Guevara
Subject: Audio Clips
Looking forward to downloading and listening to the audio clips you promise
(plan?) to create.
Looking at the photos on your site makes me think of you and your group as
vintage 60/70's artists. Reminds me of the Papas and the Mamas.
Date sent: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 21:28:32 -0400
From: Joel Singer
Dear Mr. Brandeis,
I found your article on the Bukidnon both interesting and enjoyable.
My friend and teacher, Danongan Kalanduyan, may be someone you might
wish to contact. He is a Maguindanaoan kulintang musician and ethno-
musicologist who has been teaching and performing in the United States
for the past twenty years and was the recipient of a National Heritage
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1995.
We also work with Dr. Usopay Cadar (Maranao ethnomusicologist and
musician) and Dr. Ricardo Trimillos (expert on Tausug music and dance).
Date sent: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 10:01:53 -0700
From: Robert Martin
Subject: South Cotabato Music
Hello Hans,
I have a question for you. I am getting ready to do some re-working of my
General Santos City Home Page, and I would like to include some background
music as part of the page. I thought that in your work perhaps you might
have a midi file of some native music from South Cotabato province.
Perhaps some T'boli music or something like that would be great, if you
would be willing to provide it.
If you are able to provide me with such a file, Hans, I would certainly give
you credit on the page, and also add a link to you page of pictures of=
Mindanao.
Thanks for your consideration!
____________________________________
Bob Martin--(c)1996--rmartin@mindanao.com
http://www.mindanao.com
"The Mindanao Home Page"
Date sent: Sun, 09 Jun 1996 15:26:29 -0700
From: Amy McClelland
Organization: San Diego State University
Subject: Very impressed by your page! :)
Hi! my name is Amy McClelland and I was putting together a muti-cultural music
lesson for elementray school students. I needed some background information
on traditional instruments of the Phillipines. I was very impressed with your
work and it was just what I was looking for! The pictures you included were
great. Well, anyway I just wanted you to know that I appreciate your work,
It's hard to find information like yours. Thanks again! :)
Date sent: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:27:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Leo Paz
Subject: New WEB Page: Photographs and Music from Mindanao, Philippines
Dear Mr. Brandeis,
Thank you very much for offering and informing us of your Web
Page on Music etc, exp. on the Bukidnons. Many are eager for info
and opportunities like this. Again salamat!
Leo Paz,
Chair, Philippine Studies,
City College of San Francisco
Date sent: Thu, 30 May 1996 11:43:05 -0700
From: Ed Subijano
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation
Subject: Mindanao Photos
Hi Hans,
Excellent Photos. I look forward to seeing more of your work in the
future.
regards,
ed subijano
http://www.hooked.net/users/chess/testhome.html
Date sent: Sun, 26 May 1996 11:18:23 -0700
From: Jaime Jay So
Subject: Your WWW page
Hi,
my name is Jay So of Bicol-L.
nice page here Hans! keep it up...
and BIG thanks for promoting Filipino
culture in WWW.
-jay s.
Date sent: Sat, 25 May 1996 15:05:27 -0700
From: Dan Thomas
Subject: Mindanao Traditional Music
Hans, congratulations on your website.
I would be very interested in more information (non-musical) about the
people you are documenting.
I lived in the Philippines for almost 4 years and travelled several times to
Bukidnon, working with community groups interested in various technology
projects. My wife, a Filipina, taught in Kibawe for several months.
Dan
Date sent: Sat, 25 May 1996 12:26:44 -0400 (edt)
From: LITO G. ESPINOSA
Subject: link to your home page
Hi Hans,
I thought you'd like to know that I have added a link on my links page to your
homepage.
It's very interesting.
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LITO G. ESPINOSA
ESPITECH AIR Products
email:litoespi@vir.com
http://www.vir.com/~litoespi/espitech.htm
http://www.vir.com/~litoespi/links.htm
vox:514.624.9827, fax:514.624.9829
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Date sent: 23 May 96 16:35:00 JST
From: Emmanuel Baltazar
Sir:
I was able to pick-up information about your work on Bukidnon.
Thank you for your concern on studying about our province (because
I am from Bukidnon). Particularly, I am connected with Central Mindanao
University in Musuan, Bukidnon. However, I hail from Linabo, Malaybalay,
Bukidnon. I might be of help to you in some ways re your interests about
Bukidnon.
At present, I am in Japan as a research student.
Best regards and wishes.
Very truly yours,
EMMANUEL T. BALTAZAR
Hokkaido University, Sapporo City
Japan
Date sent: Thu, 16 May 1996 03:44:42 GMT
From: Alexander Bragat or alternate e-mail address
Subject: MINDANAO: """" S. A. O. T. """ -- Hans Brandeis
Dear Hans,
My name is Alexander Ching Bragat from Malaybalay, Bukidnon (now in New
York). I am the nephew of two of your references (Carmen Ching Unabia and
Hermelina Ching Marbella). And also a former pupil of Gavina Exconde, for a
short period of time.
I saw your new homepage and I am very impressed with it. The pictures were
breathtaking. (With your permission, may I save some of the *.jpg files to be
used as desktop wallpaper?)
Finding a very detailed homepage about Bukidnon culture was a surprise
for me. And those pictures really made me very proud of my homeland.
Not as grand as postcards of Neuschwanstein Castle but very vibrant and
organic.
I read your report about the SAOT project and would very much like to see
the project pursued. Yes, the cultural tradition of our minorities are
rapidly disappearing as we speak. And we should strive hard to preserve
them. S.A.O.T. can be one of the vehicles for this preservation. In fact
it's probably the last chance.
I spoke to my aunt (Marbella) and told her about your research, your
homepage, and SAOT. She was very impressed with what you did and
appreciates all the hardwork that you've done. She and her sister (Unabia)
have also spent a lot of time in the hinterlands to do their research. In
some occassions, they were able to invite the Manobo[s] to "our house" (my
grandparents') so they could study the dances better, as well as record them
on 8 mm film. I was just a little boy then but I could still remember the
colorful dances, including the "saut", in my grandparents' sala. These
audio-visual records were made by my aunts in the same spirit as your
proposed SAOT project.
If your full SAOT proposal is in digital format, could you please send me a
copy? I would like to show it to my aunts and find out if they have any
suggestions for you. Also, if you ever want to get in touch with them, you
could reach them through me.
Hans, thanks for not losing hope on the S.A.O.T. project. If there's
anything I can do at all, please ask.
Regards,
Alex
Date sent: Tue, 14 May 1996 01:26:37 +0800
From: Delany and Barefoot
Organization: Carto-Cult: Cartographic and Cultural Services Pty Ltd
Subject: photos and research
Hi Hans,
I'm enjoying looking at your photos. (I was just viewing you big gongs
when you posted the message about your web site.) You might have
included this info somewhere, but I'll ask you again, 'cause I haven't
seen it or I can't remember it. Can you pin point, on the map, the
exact area of your research? How far away is it from the Tampakan area?
(That's the spot that I'm interested in, i.e. B'laan of Tampakan)
I'm still not an A student on the geography of Mindanao, yet.
Keep in touch,
Margot...
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COMO WA 6152
Australia
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Date sent: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:16:27 -0700 (MST)
From: Oona Paredes
Dear Mr. Brandeis--
I just saw, to my shock and amazement-- an article on the net
entitled "Music and Dance of the Bukidnons of Mindanao". I need to get in
touch with you because I am doing research among the same people--
although the folks I know call themselves the Higaunon. And I have been
working almost exclusively in Misamis Oriental.
I have a million questions but I suppose the first thing I should
do is ask for a printed copy of the article, and also a copy of your
unpublished typescript and your paper on "Competition and Guardian
Spirits". This is a major request, I know, but I am willing to pay you
the cost of mailing and photocopying etc. At this point I am also trying
to figure out if I can go over to Berlin and see your collection. I am
also interested in audiotapes of the music you have collected.
My area of research [anthropology] is actually the political
situation in Misamis Oriental, specifically the so-called "Higaunon war",
and I have been looking at the current "kahimtang" of the Higaunons there
[their present situation, roughly]. I am just at the beginning of my
research so I have not even gone to Bukidnon province to meet with groups
there, but the people I have interviewed are related by blood to folks in
Hagpa, Kalabugaw, etc.
Anyway--- When I saw your article on the web it just blew my
mind. Please get in touch with me as soon as possible and let me know
that I am not dreaming!!!!!!
Again, please contact me as soon as possible. I am eager to
communicate with you.
Awaan ku inyu,
OONA
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Oona Thommes Paredes Department of Anthropology
oonaz@imap1.asu.edu Arizona State University
department fax: 602-9657671 Tempe AZ 85287-2402 USA
"hinay-hinay basta kanunay"
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Date sent: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:07:52 +0800 (SST)
From: Dante Victoria
Subject: bukidnon
Hello!
I'm from Bukidnon. Have you seen the Bukidnon Home page?
http://www.msuiit.edu.ph/~lito/bukidnon
The photos in this page were taken by me. Still have to
add more.
dante
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