This is the first exploration of the fourth year in my school and this exploration called Hidden Voices. This is the most favorite exploration that I’ve ever had because it’s about Cambodian Singers and all the endangered songs in Cambodia that our next generation needs to preserve and it’s threatening to live this world. Our goals in this exploration are trying to collect many songs as we can by contact to some people on phone, went outside to interview all the people. In my exploration we have three facilitators are our Khmer teacher, sophorn and our foreign teachers, Rich and Trish. All these three main teachers always help us to get everything done and help us to get everything in place. Our exploration had a trip to different provinces in Cambodia to discover all that endangered songs by interviewing people there. We went to Phnom Penh,
Kampong Spue and Mondulkiri. Also we aren’t just trying to get our old Cambodian songs we want to save the traditional Phnong musics and dances. So we went to Mondulkiri to see the show of the Phnong singing and dancing and record some of them talking about how all of their tradition arts important to them. During our trip we met a lot of people that gave us the precious songs and some of them we never heard before. At the end of our exploration we came up a product is Podcast. We created a podcast for our Hidden Voices exploration and it’s the first episode of our school. Our group worked so hard in the process to make this podcast. We transcribe all the Khmer audios into english. In our podcast we have two hosts, producers and the interviewees. My friend, Dalin and I are the main host in the podcast. Trish, our facilitator gave us a great opportunity to perform the songs that we have in Hidden Voices exploration to audience at Luna. I feel very excited and proud of my group because we can share all of our endangered songs to others. After that we have a sharation and we can share all the information to the visitors that came to our school.
You can listen to our Podcast by ligercast.ligercambodiablog.org and visit my host, Dalin by dalin.ligercambodiablog.org.