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gamelan
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:33 pm
by subframe
who knows?
i've only ever heard a gamelan orchestra live, anyone got tips for recordings?
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:17 pm
by selector.dub.u
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/
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:38 pm
by subframe
WOW
Thanks, that is amazing!
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:26 pm
by selector.dub.u
subframe wrote:
WOW
Thanks, that is amazing!
you are welcome. i foresee some tracks utilizing gamelan samples.
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 1:50 am
by parson
javanese or balinese
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 2:37 pm
by boomnoise
i'd recommend gamelan son of lion
http://www.gamelan.org/sonoflion/
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 8:59 pm
by subframe
Parson wrote:javanese or balinese
Don't know. Yet.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 6:47 am
by roko
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
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 12:28 pm
by Littlefoot
Javanese Gamelan can be really beautiful, I found Balian stuff I have ventured into has been harder and more rhythmic, lovely
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 12:33 pm
by o1o6
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
Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 4:29 pm
by parson
yah javanese is the royal meditative style and balinese is the flashy rhythmic stuff
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:08 am
by ekstrak
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
