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Orthent – a progressive rock band’s approach to the traditional Hungarian folk-song heritage

The Band:
Identification of Orthent’s musical style is not justified. It has been called progressive rock – most commonly, or culture-rock and because of its certain elements, it has also been called folk-rock or even world music. Their aim is to create a new, unusual, but widely acceptable musical atmosphere behind the traditional Hungarian folk-songs.

The band always starts working on the songs with care and respect, so that they would still deliver their messages – as they always have. By putting a new-age instrumental sound behind, they try to update the songs to the understanding of a new generation. So, it is only the music they change, the songs are sung in their authentic way.

The photo:
The photo was taken in Göd, Hungary, at the side of the River Danube (Duna – as we call it). The scenery was provided by the low tide of the river. This area is under water for more than half of the year. The water level can easily be over one and a half meters high at the point where the photo was taken.

As you can see, we were trying to create a little bit of fantasy atmosphere for the band. The “creatures” at the background are from Mohács, in southern Hungary. They are called “Busó” masks. They are worn during the carnival season to say goodbye to the cold season and welcome to spring time! The tradition originated from the sokac (Croatia) nation and they can bring good luck besides many other aspects.

At this session they were worn by the members of the band, so you can imagine the many layers used for this panorama!

Thanx for the masks: Csaba Vikár
for the smoke: Gyuszi
for the photo: vrphoto.hu!

Sára Tímár – vocals
Lóránt Both – guitar
Gábor Majoros – guitar
András Hajnal – bass
Márton Orosz – drums, percussion

Music is available on-line at http://www.orhent.hu
e-mail: orthent@orthent.hu
Here you can find more info on this busho tradition.

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It’s been a long time since I published my last panorama here,
but I was very busy. The next WWP event is coming, and I didn’t
even published my submission from december. Unfortunately I missed
the autumn event, the theme was colours. I had the idea of a large
colorful theme park, but had flu and didn’t want to go out in the cold.

Anyway, this one is from march 2008, so it is one year old. I remember
those days, the wind blowed very heavy, all the internal shots were done
long ago, I missed only some external panoramas around the university to
make the virtual tour ready.
Alas it was not a good choice to shoot the outdoor scenes in march,
you cannot see the beautiful flora around the university surroundings.

This panorama was taken at the main dormitory of the Szent Istvan Egyetem,
the second, newly built one will be the subject of my next upload.

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Alas it has no water in the basin. Behind the foutain farther on
you can see the flowerpots made of concrete. These pots originate
from the last century, from the premontrei times.
In the midst of the 19th century this building served as a monastic quarter
and was the home of the premontrei monks.

And some words about my masterpiece to prepare:
I’ve finished my thesis about making virtual tours,
and my masterpiece is almost done. (90%)
I was given some small texts about some nodes,
but I need to write some other texts. 15 nodes still
missing the descriptions so far.

I added some plain pictures into the extras section as supplementary
to the multimedia disk, and it contains some werk photos just for
the curious ones. And the last hint: there is an easter-egg built-in,
find for the unseen node on the map!

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From now on you can download the complete virtual tour
I made at the University! It is written only in hungarian,
but a schedule for an english version was made in the future.

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There is a corridor here to the Botanical Department, as you can see
there are some boards with sample plants on them. The students must
to study the latin names for all the herbal on the world, it was turned out
as we had a speech with this student girl. You can see her two times,
but I manipulated the colour of her clothes in PS for not to be so obvious
that it is just the same person.

In the direction of the door with red stickers, there is the dean’s office
in that corridor. Anyway, these stickers say that you mustn’t close this
door for safety reasons, it is a fire-blocking special door.
In case of fire it will be closed automatically.

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