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instruments for sale: altaian jew’s harps, chinese hu-lu-si and russian kalyuka

Posted on December 21st, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, music instruments, pyrography.

If you don’t know yet which present you gonna give to your friends for upcoming holydays, this rare exotic music instruments can give you an idea:)

All items available for international order. Please send me message or email for details how to buy it!

Jew’s Harps from Altai “Khomus” in a beautiful boxes decorated by

Kuzhebar Design Studio.  Available in keys of F and F#.

the price of one jew’s harp 49 euros together with pyrographic decorated box. Limited offer!

Listen here for Khomus

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Chinese Hu-Lu-Si in Key of G
Available with one drone. The price is 60 euros
Limited offer!

  Listen for Hu-Lu_Si here

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Russian overtone flute Kalyuka

Great sound – check it out!!! Available in different keys. Available from 20 to 30 euros per item.

For more details go here

Listen for Kalyuka here

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Exhibition report, ethnological museum, Berlin 2007

Posted on December 15th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, exhibitions, foto, Kuzhebar, pyrography.

Kuzhebar Design studio (Julia Surba) and Sound Microsurgery Department (Vladiswar Nadishana) presented their exhibiton stand with kuzhebarian art and music during Markt der Kontinente in Berlin´s ethnological museum these two December´ weeks. This cultural event brought together people who present or are interested in art and handcrafts from over the world.

We were happy to answer a lot of questions about Ancient Kuzhebar, pyrography, music and variety of other objects we presented this time.  Visitors of the event brought into focus that all the things we presented are made by ourselves what was a kind of unique on this event.

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Kuzhebar shadow theater piece

Posted on December 4th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, drums, Kuzhebar, music instruments, video.

Traditional Kuzhebar Shadow theater piece devoted to a winter solstice performed by Nadishana and Julia Surba at Maultrommel Festival, Leipzig.

A shadow play is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment. The performance involves the projection of light or fire on a white screen, on which performers use figures or puppets to produce shadows. It is popular in various cultures, f.e. in Indonesia, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Turkey, Persia and Greece.
In Ancient Kuzhebar the shadow theatre was usually a part of ritual celebrations such as solstice and moon rituals. Traditionally the shadow play was shown near the fire place inside a big frame drum (Buben, Tungur) and was synchronized with the drummer playing.
Here you can see a shadow theater piece devoted to a winter solstice.
Music : Vladiswar Nadishana
Shadow theater: Julia Surba
The aim of this project is to rebuild and to develope the kuzhebarian tradition of shadow theater.

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Sound Microsurgery Department and Kuzhebar Design on Maultrommel Festival (Leipzig) – Report.

Posted on November 29th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, Kuzhebar, music instruments, pyrography, video.

Video: Excerpts from Nadishana’s concert on the festival

We just came back from the 1st International Maultrommel Festival (Jew’s Harp Festival) which took part 23rd-25th Nov in Leipzig, Germany. That was exiting experience, we met a lot of enthusiastic people who loves this little instrument! They came

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Dragons’ fight on Davul

Posted on October 12th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, drums, henna painting, music instruments.

You can listen to the sounds of Kuzhebarian dragons’ fight when Jean from the group vermaledeyt.de will play his davul. Kuzhebar Design had decorated for him this beautiful drum made by David&Roman with henna painting.

Dragons were reputed in Ancient Kuzhebar to be very powerful and tricky, who came to play their own plays between people. This picture on davul depicts the fight between two dragons: a flying and a walking one. They are desperately fighting for a magic power. The walking dragon had won and is carring in its hands the symbol of power.

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Mystical birds of Ancient Kuzhebar

Posted on September 14th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, pyrography.

Kuzhebarian tales say about three mystical birds, who are providers of different power-sorces. For mortals, however, the birds were dangerous and indifferent at the same time. One of them symbolizes darkness, another light and the third one wisdom. Kuzhebarian people believed that each of these birds come to each person one time a life and everybody has to choose with which of them to be connected. People give their emotions, intentions and thoughts like food to the birds and birds provide them a power they have. One gives the power to complain or to be angry, another the power to be joyful and  to laugh, and the third one gives access to wisdom.

I decided to materialize these three birds in a pyrography-trilogy. Here you can see the first of the birds, the darkness bird, also called the “gloom-bird” in kuzhebarian mythology. 
As usually described in kuzhebarian tales it  is shown crying with the symbols of power it gives and takes above and under its head. The symbols on the frame depict the ways the gloom-bird can be connected with people.

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Pyro-skateboard "Father of the Sky" and pyrography all around the world

Posted on July 13th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, pyrography.

The crazy idea to make pyrography on a skateboard is realized. You can read the ancient kuzhebarian tale about the Father of the Sky and his daughter just from the surface of this pyro-skateboard.
This new pyro-object of mine was also featured in the pyrography online magazine “Pyrograffiti” with other interesting news about pyrography from around the world.

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Kuzhebar Design and Sound microsurgery Department in ethnological museum Berlin-Dahlem

Posted on February 18th, 2007 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, exhibitions, foto, pyrography.

Our report about the exhibition „Markt der Kontinente“ in ethnological museum Berlin-Dahlem, where you can see what we were doing there.

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