Shaman drum / Schamanentrommel Nepal.
"The shaman’s drum is not just a rhythm instrument with which faith healers add an acoustic component to their rituals.
It is a self-contained embodiment of the cosmos in which their owners travel in the course of their séances. (...)
The drum’s numerous functions—as a musical instrument accompanying the recitation of mythical songs, as a pacemaker of ritual dances,
as a vehicle on which the shaman travels through space, as a defensive and assault weapon against negative powers,
as a diagnostic and prognostic instrument - make it a kind of all- purpose companion to its owner."
excerpt from:
MICHAEL OPPITZ :
Forschungen an den Rändern der Schrift
26 January – 14 April 2018
exhibition at Galerie Buchholz - Edit Daniel Buchholz
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