We pay the master to record in a studio, and offer performance activities that provide added income. A CD of Solo Performances by a Khmer Master Recording solo work by musicians is a key ingredient of the archive of Khmer performing culture. The Masters Program plans to create a collection of solo CDs to make each artist's individual nuances available to students and posterity. The master will select the instrument and the material to perform. A CD of Ensemble Performances by Khmer Masters Khmer musical culture is built around a few traditional ensembles, generally specialized for dance, wedding, opera, folk, or ceremonial.
Few recordings exist that show the variations of music for each group.
The ensemble recordings will show the breadth of Khmer musical forms that have survived a thousand years. As Cambodian schools begin to have limited computer resources, there is no curriculum in available in Khmer. In The Classroom curriculum can be available as Cambodians around the world search for relevant educational content. We rent DAT equipment and microphones in the US and carry them to Phnom Penn for recording masters. Bringing WMC's studio and editing equipment up to date would greatly increase CMPP's capabilities for archiving Khmer music.