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The Singhini Anusandhan Kendra (Singhini
Research Center) is an independent association, which aims to preserve
and promote the cultural heritage of the Himalayas. Founded in March
2001 at the instigation of Franck Bernede, a french cellist and
ethnomusicologist, the center is situated in the ancient royal city of
Patan (Lalitpur). Bringing together applied musicology and an
anthropological vision, its objectives are organised around three
central themes: research, preservation and the promotion of musical
heritage.
Rather than be limited by a
fixed musicological perspective, the center intends primarily to
invigorate traditional practice as a referential basis for its
explorations and research. With this in mind, the team involved includes
musical artists, singers and dancers. The center also works in direct
collaboration with foreign and Nepali scholars and specialists in such
widely differing fields as linguistics, musicology, ethnology, history,
visual anthropology and instrument making. In addition to this, it
maintains a close relationship with masters of the tradition thus
guaranteeing a source of inspiration for its research.
The
center wishes to develop its activities in the two areas
it considers most important, collecting and archiving. These are aimed
at the creation of a center for the digital documentation of written,
oral / aural and visual sources. The center wishes not only to create a place
of reflection and experimentation for different artistic disciplines in
the Himalayas, but also a meeting place for exchange between artists and
scholars. In this spirit, the center plans to organise educational
programes, conferences, seminars and public concerts and equally to ensure a
continuing relationship with individuals and institutions through the
production of discs and electronic publications.
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