Looking at availability, easy to pronounce and remember, viewpedia was born. In conversation with a friend on the ideas and thoughts of viewpedia, we were searching for a name at that time, he felt the site looked more like a visual encyclopedia he has seen in this school library when young. While experimenting the idea for a website to document all these started to visualize as I began to see more and more examples of unwritten and undocumented cultures in videos put up by people who are either actors or spectators of these unique events. I experimented making lists of Nepali dances, Local music practices, festivals, unique traditions, etc. With my experiences making the music list and understanding of unwritten and undocumented cultures, I started to think about other areas where these kind of listings might work. I started making videos and putting them up in my Youtube channel. This experience prompted me to look into accumulating as much oral knowledge as possible as and when such opportunities opened up. This gave me a first hand experience of how knowledge is passed and how the new generation adopts them and makes them more suitable for oneself.
It really didn’t talk anything about other ritual practices. Then realized that all of the book was only recitation during the puja. There was a book and I read it cover to cover. For about 7 days, I was instructed on lots of things to do and practices to follow. About 8 years ago, I was guided to perform my first Kul Puja (Family Ansestral God worship) by one of my elders. It relies more on passing knowledge from one generation to other through oral practices and through imitations. I had known from quite an early age that my culture, the Nepali culture, is mostly an unwritten one. It took 6-7 months to come up with the list that I have in my blog right now. So I started listing music types and their most representative examples in my blog at. So I bought couple of books (again rare to find) and started reading up and looking for such music and their descriptions both through search engines and video media like Youtube, Vemio, Facebook, etc… I found that there were material, either they were too fragmented or too rare to find. There were few video material, but they were not labeled well. Hunts on the Internet proved that there was very less written material available. This brought in the interest to try and learn music from my part of the world, mainly Nepali music. There were a lot of material available freely on the Internet to learn these. This included Scottish tunes, Bulgarian tunes, Klezmer music and the likes. Then I started exploring music of various regions and cultures that use the clarinet. Slowly interest began to develop in Jazz.
I first started learning clarinet mostly around children’s and classical music as sheets and exercises were readily available on the Internet. And I always liked the sound of a clarinet. I thought it would be a good mix to do breathing exercises while still learning music. One day, while talking to a person coming from China who played the clarinet in his school days, I requested him to get a clarinet for me. My doctor had asked me to do breathing exercises regularly to strengthen by lungs. In middle of 2014 I became very ill and had to be hospitalized for 15 days and isolated for over 3 months. Its a 6 beat pattern and used in just about every Nepali folk song. He taught the most popular Nepali Madal rhythm called Jhyaure. Then I picked the Madal (Nepali drum) and asked my son (then aged 9) to teach me a couple of beats. So I started my musical journey with a simple blowing of the Conch (Shankha in Nepali). The most prominent among them was learning music. When I turned 40 I began to think of things that I had wanted to do, but never got around to.
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