Feature Article

Born to Play the Music: Elnatan Yosua.

“Where words fail, music speaks.” (Hans Christian Andersen)

Since Elnatan was a kid, he born to play music. His name is Elnatan Yosua, usually people call him Ochu. He was born in Malang, August 29, 1995. When his parents studied at University, and his brother went to school, his parents trust him to a music studio. From there, Ochu learned to play drum.

The first melodic instrument that he played was a guitar.  Ochu learned it at church from the 4th-grade elementary school, without knowing that his father could play guitar. He said, “Mostly, I learned music by myself autodidact, without any direction from my parents and music course.”

Although his parents very happy to support his talent, Ochu also found many challenges in learning and practicing the instruments. His father only gives him feedback without providing him an example of how to play the instruments. Another melodic instrument that he can play is Bass, he learned the basic of bass from guitar. He also learns to play violin.

In 2013, Ochu graduated from Senior High School. He later took a part-time job to join a course in Balawan Music Centre. From the music center, Ochu learned how to play bass better.

“From my childhood, I learned everything about music by myself. I observed my friends playing instruments and asked them how to play them. I’m still learning that way. Learning through songs and videos also helps me to learn the basic of some musical instruments” said Ochu

In 2015, Ochu chose Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana to learn more about music in Faculty of Performing Arts but now it known as Faculty of Language and Arts. In his first year, his skill did not develop much. Then, in the 2nd year, his skill in playing bass got better. Because of his skills are improved, his friends and seniors start to pay attention to his skill when playing the bass. One of his senior in his faculty named Aditya Ch. Sapan asked him to join his band named Luminosa. Then, Ochu performed in 3 events as an additional player especially as a bassist. 

Since he joined Luminosa, many of his senior who holds a recital for their graduation asked him to be additional player on their recital as the bassist player, and it is the beginning of his session player career. He also met Yesa one of his senior on that recital and asked him to join Sekawan and friends and performing in many wedding event. After his career with Sekawan and friends, he was asked by two of his senior to be session player as a bassist in his senior’s band and performing in many events. His memorable moment when working as a session player was when Ochu worked for a Jazz festival in Semarang for Citra Scholastika.

Not only as a session player, Ochu also a creator of 2 bands named Coming Soon Project and D’Boarnergers. He also the promoter of his own big project called “Elnatan Yosua Project”.

His wish near this time Elnatan Yosua Project can perform in a Tembakau Jazz Festival with an artist that soon to be announced, who will perform there too. Also for his recital soon, he will make a music composition that will be played soon with Elnatan Yosua Project.

He found a lot of challenges that he faced in his journey in the instruments, but it doesn't stop him to go forward. By having a lot of community it makes him succeed in his passion.  Not just community but a lot of friends and parents also support him in music. “Music is a 'language' that all people can receive so that music is the best way to unite” said Ochu.

How Online Video Games Controlled Children’s Mind

                                    Laura Y. Tan, Meta A. Wulandari, Synai J. Marscalofa

    “We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.” – Tom Bissell

         

     Children really like to play games, especially online video games. An online game is a video game that partially played through the Internet or other computer networks. Online games are everywhere on modern gaming platforms on a computer, mobile devices, and Xbox. Every online video game has it values. Quote from Tom Bissell, we could admit that children mindsets could break down because of online video games effect. Children’s mindsets may take the values from online video games incorrectly. They might have the oversensitive temperament in any action near them, high level of stress, aggressive behavior and some social problems like.

     Children’s imaginations are controlled their mind because of the effect of game. The imaginations that go too far makes the children lived in their fantasy world all the time. One of proof that Victoria L. Dunckley M.D explain:

"Aiden’s brain and psyche become overstimulated and excited — on fire! His nervous system shifts into high gear and settles there while he attempts to master different situations, strategizing, surviving, accumulating weapons, and defending his turf."

Based on this, we can say that the online video games snatch his children live. It makes the children behave in the real world and the fantasy same. 

     Children could mix up between the real-life world and their fantasy world because of online video games effect, which can lead the children to do some violence or overthinking about their surroundings. They might murder their own mates by doing the same thing on what they see and play in the online video games, for example, kicking, punching, say a bad word, etc. They might do it because of their sense when playing the online video games to survive in their environment that actually it’s a real life.

     Another point, most of the children like to play online games rather than play with other children near them. It must play minimum of two players. The example of online video games is the clash of clan, clash royal, mobile legend, and Summoners war. Emily Hughes wrote that:

     Another negative aspect of video games is the fact that kids are spending too much time playing the games rather than physically playing outside.

     The online video games are made with good audio, visual and theme. Then, children can play the video games in their favorite place in their house without going out. Online video games must play online with other people around the world who play the same game. Thus, it makes the children play with other people online. Online video games have a lot of strategies to make children curious about the challenges that will happen next. Therefore, it encourages children to play until the end. In this case, the children usually avoid socializing with other children and an adult near them, they just socialized with online people only all day. Because of that, children difficult to socialize with people around them.

     In our opinion, we believed that the children who affected by online video games might have some problem. In every online video game, it has values. When they take the value through games in a wrong way, it will make them change their temper into sensitive with others, always aggressive and high level of stress of everything near them. They will always spend their time with online people rather than children or adult near them. That is why it makes them have some social problem.