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Sakay na: ‘IkoToki for a Jeepney Orchestra’ is a musical tribute to UP Diliman
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The musicians performing 'IkoToki'—including GMA News Online's SciTech Editor TJ Dimacali (bottom right)—will be using instruments made from jeepney parts. Photos courtesy of Elemento and TJ Dimacali
A new composition honoring the park-like, tree-filled UP Diliman uses an unusual source for music: the jeepneys that make their way through the campus to bring students, teachers and visitors to their destinations within the school's vast grounds.
“IkoToki for a Jeepney Orchestra” was composed by Professor Maria Christine Muyco of the UP College of Music's Department of Theory and Composition. It will be performed in the College of Science Amphitheater, UP Diliman on February 28, 6:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Any UP student can tell you where the title comes from: the Ikot jeepneys, whose route goes through the campus counter-clockwise from the north, and the Toki jeepneys, which go in the opposite direction.
The composition features a range of sounds recorded on campus, including the sounds of the jeepneys. Four jeepney drivers—Renato “James” Lino and Jason Reyes on the Ikot route, and Toki drivers Julius Guevarra and Emmanuel Salvador—are even included among the cast of performers, with the sound of their vehicles to be worked into the texture of the composition.
According to Muyco, who organized and led the project, even the instruments owe their existence to jeepneys—they were created from jeepney parts collected from junkyards around Quezon City. Creators JP Hernandez, Allan Hernandez, Romeo Cudiamat, Boy Rullog, Cris Garcimo and Lirio Salvador used these jeepney parts to make instruments like flutes, a drum, the IkoToki Tultogan (a jeep as mini idiophone), and the “Jeepnilamella”, which resembles the African kalimba or thumb piano.
The orchestra also features musicians from the UP College of Music Winds and Percussion Department; the Cavite-based Elemento string ensemble, kalimba player Cris Garcimo, and two speech choirs composed of Arts Studies students. Dave Guadalupe will manipulate computer sounds with jeepney sounds.
The sounds will not be confined to the concert, either. There will be sound installations placed around the campus, created from numerous sources, including frog-song, bird-song, insect noises, wind sounds and speech, courtesy of student composers Jordan Peralta, Melita Cruz, Karl San Jose, Jairus Saldajeno, and College of Music lecturer Feliz Macahis in collaboration with Nicanor Valdez of the College of Engineering, Prime Felias and Jam Respicio of the College of Fine Arts, and students from the Colleges of Arts and Letters, the College of Science (Zoology Department) and College of Music (Music Education Department).
This entire project has been organized and led by Muyco together with Dave Guadalupe and Dayang Yraola, with help from Lisa Decenteceo and Feliz Macahis. According to the organizers, the concert and sound installations constitute the first phase of sound pieces developed at UP Diliman. (PHOTO CREDITS: Elemento, Eloisa Hernandez) — BM, GMA News
Everyone is invited to ‘IkoToki for a Jeepney Orchestra’ at the College of Science Amphitheater, UP Diliman on February 28 at 6 p.m. Admission is free. For details, email jeepney.orch@yahoo.com.ph or contact mobile no. 09179404575.
“IkoToki for a Jeepney Orchestra” was composed by Professor Maria Christine Muyco of the UP College of Music's Department of Theory and Composition. It will be performed in the College of Science Amphitheater, UP Diliman on February 28, 6:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Any UP student can tell you where the title comes from: the Ikot jeepneys, whose route goes through the campus counter-clockwise from the north, and the Toki jeepneys, which go in the opposite direction.
The composition features a range of sounds recorded on campus, including the sounds of the jeepneys. Four jeepney drivers—Renato “James” Lino and Jason Reyes on the Ikot route, and Toki drivers Julius Guevarra and Emmanuel Salvador—are even included among the cast of performers, with the sound of their vehicles to be worked into the texture of the composition.
According to Muyco, who organized and led the project, even the instruments owe their existence to jeepneys—they were created from jeepney parts collected from junkyards around Quezon City. Creators JP Hernandez, Allan Hernandez, Romeo Cudiamat, Boy Rullog, Cris Garcimo and Lirio Salvador used these jeepney parts to make instruments like flutes, a drum, the IkoToki Tultogan (a jeep as mini idiophone), and the “Jeepnilamella”, which resembles the African kalimba or thumb piano.
The orchestra also features musicians from the UP College of Music Winds and Percussion Department; the Cavite-based Elemento string ensemble, kalimba player Cris Garcimo, and two speech choirs composed of Arts Studies students. Dave Guadalupe will manipulate computer sounds with jeepney sounds.
The sounds will not be confined to the concert, either. There will be sound installations placed around the campus, created from numerous sources, including frog-song, bird-song, insect noises, wind sounds and speech, courtesy of student composers Jordan Peralta, Melita Cruz, Karl San Jose, Jairus Saldajeno, and College of Music lecturer Feliz Macahis in collaboration with Nicanor Valdez of the College of Engineering, Prime Felias and Jam Respicio of the College of Fine Arts, and students from the Colleges of Arts and Letters, the College of Science (Zoology Department) and College of Music (Music Education Department).
This entire project has been organized and led by Muyco together with Dave Guadalupe and Dayang Yraola, with help from Lisa Decenteceo and Feliz Macahis. According to the organizers, the concert and sound installations constitute the first phase of sound pieces developed at UP Diliman. (PHOTO CREDITS: Elemento, Eloisa Hernandez) — BM, GMA News
Everyone is invited to ‘IkoToki for a Jeepney Orchestra’ at the College of Science Amphitheater, UP Diliman on February 28 at 6 p.m. Admission is free. For details, email jeepney.orch@yahoo.com.ph or contact mobile no. 09179404575.
