gamelan

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:33 pm

who knows?

i've only ever heard a gamelan orchestra live, anyone got tips for recordings?

selector.dub.u · Post by **selector.dub.u** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:17 pm

whats up subframe- there is this:
The Museum Nusantara in Delft, the Netherlands, displays a more than 100 yers old Javanese gamelan, Kyahi Paridjata. This gamelan was described by Ernst Heins after it was bought in 1968 [1]. The seller reported it to be 175 yeras old at the time. The tuning and some decorations point to the late 19th, early 20th century. It was last tuned 15 years ago, at that time a few of the instruments were also replaced.

We have made samples of most instruments using a large-membrane condensator microphone and CD recorder. Specifically, the sarons barung, demung and panerus (peking), slentem, bonang barung and panerus, kenongs, ketuk & kempyang, kempuls and gongs (note that the big gong, at 44.54Hz, is below the range of most computer speakers). The peking slendro was inexplicably skipped. We hope to sample it and other instruments next year.

Link for the samples is here
http://www.marsudiraras.org/gamelan/

also these
http://www.gsj.org/gsj/index.cfm
http://www.galaktika.org/

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:38 pm

selector.dub.u wrote: Link for the samples is here
http://www.marsudiraras.org/gamelan/

WOW

Thanks, that is amazing!

selector.dub.u · Post by **selector.dub.u** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:26 pm

subframe wrote:
selector.dub.u wrote: Link for the samples is here
http://www.marsudiraras.org/gamelan/
WOW

Thanks, that is amazing!

you are welcome. i foresee some tracks utilizing gamelan samples.

parson · Post by **parson** » Tue May 01, 2007 1:50 am

javanese or balinese

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Tue May 01, 2007 2:37 pm

i'd recommend gamelan son of lion

http://www.gamelan.org/sonoflion/

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Tue May 01, 2007 8:59 pm

Parson wrote:javanese or balinese

Don't know. Yet.

roko · Post by **roko** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:47 am

i dunno if its much to do with gamelan, but there was a beautiful release on Rephlex records by Victor Gama entitled Pangeia Instrumentos... I remember he built every instrument himself that he played on the album...

it might not be what u looking for but just thought to share as this thread brought it to my mind

spannered on that album

Littlefoot · Post by **Littlefoot** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:28 pm

Javanese Gamelan can be really beautiful, I found Balian stuff I have ventured into has been harder and more rhythmic, lovely

o1o6 · Post by **o1o6** » Sat May 12, 2007 12:33 pm

There's quite a few albums dedicated to traditional South Pacific / Indonesian (Java / Bali) music released on the Nonesuch Explorer Series.

Well worth checking out.

http://www.nonesuch.com/Hi_Band/region_indonesia.swf

parson · Post by **parson** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:29 pm

yah javanese is the royal meditative style and balinese is the flashy rhythmic stuff

ekstrak · Post by **ekstrak** » Sun May 13, 2007 12:08 am

spent a lot of time in indonesia and got madly hooked on gamelan. you really cant beat hearing it played live, in the fiercly humid indo heat, dead of night whilst burnin a kretek .. good times

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