The Dharmasangita, a project under the support and administration of Sathirakoses-Nagaprateep Foundation, has launched two activities during the past few months.  The project is aimed to encourage and provide facilities for people of all spiritual inspirations who attempt to create music and songs reflecting Dharma or spiritual essences of human life. 

In May 2007 the Dharmasagita project launched a song-writer contest, "Tua Ku Khong Ku," calling for young people to submit lyrics accompanying the tunes composed specifically for the contest by current pop-musicians in Thailand.  As part of the concept of "Dharmasangita" (Dharma plus Sangita, the latter of which means a musical combination), the songs and the lyrics will reflect younger generations' spiritual inspiration and understanding of themselves.  The contest was supported in part by the Siam Cement Group Foundation, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and the College of Music, Mahidol University.  Currently more than 60 lyrics have been submitted to the contest. 

At present, a mini-studio has also been set up and in operation.  It was designed and built under professional consultancy provided by young studio practitioners who volunteer to assist in its making.  Its equipments and computerized programs are up to professional standards.  The studio has already been used for narrative recordings and the productions of music for documentaries. 

Further activities will include the recordings of Thai Theravada chanting and hymns for further musical adaptation and composition.  A small "spiritual" song festival will also be held monthly at Suan Ngoen Mee Ma. The project will also support the production of CDs for music composed and played by spiritually-inspired musicians.

The Dharmasangita welcome people and projects of all spiritual orientations to utilize its studio in order to record and produce songs and music for a "Dharmic" life and society.  Its uses in recording and musical accompaniment for documentaries are also encouraged.  And, of course, donation and support for the project will be highly beneficial for the musical dimension of Dharma - a gift of Dharma in a new form for the comtemporay world.  In either case, please contact our staff at the Sathirakoses-Nagaprateep Foundation.

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"Tua Ku Khong Ku," website : http://www.tuaku-kongku.com/
By Vira Somboon  ,