LaguKu 3.0

LaguKu 3.0 – How did the project start?
At the end of 2022, the two founders of Orang Orang Drum Theatre (OODT) invited the younger generation to try to create their music. It was right after OODT’s last production “The Hidden Tune 掘失” where the lingering sparks of inspiration during the working process with three jazz musicians, waiting to be harvested. Hence, this invitation transformed into a creation where the members got to “jazz” together, creating “24 Jazz Drums” instead of 24 Festive Drums, the traditional art form. They invited the members to use the “Lion Dance Drum” as the main creative element to develop their preferred music style and form of performance.

Of course, we are clueless about jazz so it was just an initial point to observe how the free improvisation spirit in jazz music can grow into their own “songs”.

As someone 25 to 35 years of age, what is in their mind? What do they like?
What does the “creation process” mean to them? Is it a mirror as we expect it to be?
A mirror that reflects them thoroughly, plays the beat out, sings out and dances out the LaguKu (my song) that belongs to them.

《众鼓歌3.0》缘起
2022年，我们和爵士乐手合作演出《掘失The Hidden Tune》，体验了爵士乐自由即兴的魅力，演出结束后仍意犹未尽。

年末，两位创办人想要延续这份余温，于是对一众新生代团员发出“24Jazz令鼓”的邀请，挑战大家以狮鼓为主，任意结合其他元素，创作属于自己的音乐风格和表演形式。我们好奇在爵士乐自由即兴精神的影响下，他们会如何用音乐来表达“这就是我”？

25岁至35岁的他们在想什么？喜欢什么？
创作，对于他们来说会是怎样的一个过程？会是我们期待的那一面镜子吗？
让他们把里里外外都照个透彻，然后打出、唱出、跳出属于他们的LaguKU（中译：我的歌曲）。

LaguKu 3.0 Open Rehearsal – Free Admission
Unfiltered. Unpolished. Raw creativity in action.
Expect the unexpected—it might feel mundane, or you might witness something magical.
No fancy lights, no perfect scenes—just the real and authentic creation process.

Date: 12 – 17 December 2024
Time: Please refer to the rehearsal schedule in registration form.
Venue: Kongsi KL, Gudang Yee Seng 2, Taman Goodwood, 58200 Kuala Lumpur
Free admission by registration here: https://tinyurl.com/laguku3openrehearsal

About Orang Orang Drum Theatre 
Since its establishment in 2013, Orang Orang Drum Theatre’s core members Boyz Chew, Zyee Leow, and Damien Leow have been dancing between music, dance, and theatre, looking for a platform of expression for drum theatre. Bringing a team with them, they participated in the international music festivals such as Rainforest World Music Festival 2023,  Sziget Festival 2019, WOMADELAIDE 2020, Venice Theatre Arts Festival, Venice Open Stage, Belgium and Germany Dance Festival Danse en Ville. In recent years, they have brought their troupe to tour at many cultural and dance arts festivals in Europe, such as in France, Hungary and Serbia. Through interactions with traditional cultures, they play between tradition and contemporary. 

All of OODT’s members have had training from the 24 Festive Drums (Malaysia’s cultural heritage), how then can the basic training from this folk performance connect to the creative work in contemporary performing arts? Malaysia is the convergence point of a multicultural society, how do the traditional cultural performances of the different ethnic groups stimulate the imagination of the members in terms of music and theatre?

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THE TEAM
Producers and Production Managers: Damien Leow and Zyee Leow
Assistant Production Manager: Maggie Ong