How I became a native: Joey Ayala at TEDxDiliman

SH, with you, how this music of Ok, obsessed, that's me, turned into this ethnic boy, ethnic boy, step one. I was born alive, hallelujah, hallelujah. I was born in the Philippines, a country that spoke English after Saint Ignatius, although I am not like Homer after the Greek poet. poet's name to be able to do business in the Chinese and Shang I and what he and sold them to Man, okay. Now you know I was, that's my parents love music and they both love books. So I grew up loving music. and books Home Engineer She had to turn household chores into rewards.

I had the honor of washing the dishes. Thank you very much, I grew up quite normally. So he was a very active and imagi

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child. It had a huge garden with many fruit trees. Dogs. Bugs, cats, lots of paper, crayons, typewriters, books, pots and pants to hit later, blades and knives, removing appliances and not putting them back together. We had a sizable bar having insurance and I actually got sedated a couple of times because of it. formal music, but I have a large collection of recordings from my parents. Um, I enjoy the range of sounds Bro and that's one of the reasons why music is defined, so when I started listening to all kinds of strange music in Mindanao, I recognized the sounds as music.

I even have something in my memory bank. The popular African song sounds something like, are there any Africans? Mr. AF didn't sound like the sso one, I had Heart of Jes at GR school yesterday, in other words an American part of me is American and I grew up rock and roll woodst jaion and The Forbidden barbarella high. school I wanted to be Carlos Santana guitar God and then that guy made me Listen to James Taylor Fire and Rain and then I decided Right there and then That's Mr. is a painter I decided to become a sensitive composer I read for pleasure reading was my escape from the texooks from school with the first two weeks, so hello in the library and read all that stuff, play right and left for I'm a boy.

This must be it for me. I love ideas and those are the kind of ideas I have to escape. Which people? could Cally reading Right now I'm reading about infinity and Um, never mind, it was pretty normal Uh, I identified with creativity, self-expression, originality in the '60s was cutting your hair, so in the '60s, Bigon, so express yourself, that's why I hated school because everyone is staring. The same And then came the Maral Law during the Maral Law as nationalis democracy freedom authenticityculture Cultural authenticity and I also survived those ideas and at that time I was writing songs in English weing and o ta I was writing songs in English Um, I joined The Activist from the theater group Theater group I started writing songs in Filipino.

For the public, my first performance was as an intermission number for a dance recital. I told a dirty joke and sang a dirty song and because of my cultural contributions I was forced to report for two weeks. everything to the disciplinary issue, but they

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my friends and started producing my you know, allowing me to do things on stage later in the group. Put on an opera based on myths and legends and research. I have never been a researcher like many academics, but and that is the first time I found myself I met this instrument I like to show you that instrument This is the first instrument that made me vibrate in a way other instruments the first time Why isn't this on the radio and these were hanging G from is very a sricar et real S real instruments and I promise myself that I would include this in my work since I still have it.

It looks better in Photoshop, but here it is. I really like the instrument. You can use it to play rhythms. You can control different ones. The points are the way you stroke them, you can do it in many ways. Breathing is part of the control you can, so I make it like a laughing dog and shape the mouth so you can talk through the instrument. Traditional culture. Cellang original Tex. I love it. get drugs from time to time I sit down and in just 15 minutes I was able to find all the shapes and sizes, the latest model is on the top of the car Horn handle That is aluminum with old coins from the Commonwealth period and the most The old one that I have in my possession is the one at the bottom.

It was given to me by a woman over 80 years old that I have never met. She gave it to my sister and told her that these instruments arrive. I don't know how the instruments. This is the mythical element. more obvious I'll play it for many months This was hung on my wall I didn't know what to do with it I left it on the wall I dusted it off I put strings on it and tried to play Can you hear the liectonic amplification? So now we really need to amp things up. I know. instrument with the name hegalong and one of the reasons why that is the name I use is the word tiboli, the word tiboli for this instrument.

But I found out later and then the next two come from Tri tribalan something toang I don't know what that means City icologumx everyone else Edge, you see flatness, everyone else will show you wiess and that allowed me to easily fine-tune the gears. So I only realized later, I think the manufacturer was actually trying to copy a US made six string ender bass. It's really Al. I never met the Creator and I didn't buy it personally. I knew what to do and without realizing it, the evolution of the instrument. Threats are not permanent, unlike Origin Ang, after a month of play.

Innovation. The red is dental impression. Orin wax used Buble G. I have used El glue, but so far the most convenient is dental wa. What I like about mobile threats is that you can change the modes, you can change the scale based on the years, sared, you're not supposed to do that. with the instrument So I took advantage of every opportunity to meet people, traditional cultures. How to be authentic, you can be an authentic corpse. Of course, but if you are thinking of contributing something to society, you have to be alive, as long as it is, sold to a merchant, yes. not in a good survival, if you don't prosper, you end up selling what and that's what happens to these marketable instruments.

Say what you think with grace. I met a girl, she, but she sounded like that to me. A traditional song. She was just saying what she authentically thought. We were backstage in one of the showumentoping offices so I changed the function one night I was sitting in a BF and there were 30 musicians ro nak instument nakent Sil performer anbiil introduction wangwentize naasi function hindi langungun these accounts as closure these accounts are from Recycled plastic rulers, P-ball and toothbrushes. They are probably imitating the money beads or the gemstone museum, maybe in Smonian or somewhere in Europe, but they are plastic.

I have never seen such an intricate carving since then and I guess that brings me to the last Point es He is a barber and teaches but is no longer available, sorry this year we played music, crossed paats over the years many, many times, soon people will look back and say even my recording festival, which is funny and sad at the same time. It is authentic, it is modern, it is a jewel, it is a city, it is esid.