Student gives voice to Cambodian melodic chants

By Greg Mellen, Staff WriterIn Cambodia, the music of smot, or dharma songs, is most often heard at funerals and only rarely is it performed live.The ancient melodic chanting was one of the many oral traditions passed from master to student that was very nearly extinguished during the Khmer Rouge reign of the late 1970s.Trent Walker, a student at Stanford University believed to be the only