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Gamelan gong kebyar from bali

This Childrens group just won the first prize at The Bali Arts Festival 2005. If you want more informations about this children group, please contact the Leader of Gamelan Cenik Wayah : I Wayan Sudirana, email : sudirana@interchange.ubc.ca Ubud Water Palace, Ubud

This 25-member music and dance company from Bali transports the audience into the life, rituals, and celebrations of an Indonesian village. Employing a rare semarandana orchestra, the gamelan musicians use seven tones instead of the traditional five to create rich and varied sounds and rhythms. The music, colorful costumes (including a spectacular dragon), and thoroughly engaging performers make Gamelan Çudamani a captivating experience for audiences of all ages.

When we stayed in Bali, the guest house we were in had a gamelan band that practiced on a regular basis. This was a great opportunity to record their music.

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Balinese Gamelan music by two to six players.

OMS Gamelan

The group Marsudi Raras from Delft performing Asmarandana on the 100-yr old gamelan Kyai Paridjata (www.marsudiraras.org)

Classic live performance video from the 1991 Vermont Composers Festival in Putney. Dennis Murphy directs the Plainfield Village Gamelan in their first away-from-home appearance since their founding. Murphy built the first gamelan in the United States.

A short film showing the production process and performances of gamelan in Solo, Java.

The group Marsudi Raras from Delft performing lancaran Kebogiro on the 100-yr old gamelan Kyai Paridjata (www.marsudiraras.org).

Gamelan Jawa Music

Gamelan yang di mainkan oleh student UCLA

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Gamelan Pacifica - Trance Gong. From the album Trance Gong

Sekaa Jegog Yuskumara lead by Putu Sumiarsa. Recorded 17 June 2007 during the Amsterdam Roots Festival in the Oosterpark (http://www.amsterdamroots.nl/index.php?id=58). Also see: http://www.tropentheater.nl/smartsite.shtml?id=11359

Sunda Javanese Gamelan - Sangkala

Asa Asa

Mission Impossible Music ala Gamelan from Indonesia.

Gamelan semar pegulingan is an old variety of the Balinese gamelan. Dating back from around the 17th century, the style is sweeter and more reserved than the more popular and progressive Gamelan Gong Kebyar. Semar pegulingan is derived from the ancient flute ensemble gamelan gambuh which utilizes a 7 tone scale. Semar pegulingan also uses the 7 tone scale which enables several patets (similar to modes or scales)to be played. Semar is the name of the Hindu God of love and pegulingan means roughly 'laying down'.It was originally played near the sleeping chambers of the palace to lull the king and his concubines to sleep. The ensemble includes suling, various small percussion instruments similar to sleigh bells and finger cymbals, and trompong - a row of small kettle gongs that play the melody. A similar type of ensemble, Gamelan Pelegongan, substitutes a pair of gendérs for the trompong as the melody carrier and plays the music for a set of dances known as legong. Performed at wedding ceremonny in Pegok Sesetan by : Sanggar Sunari (Sesetan Denpasar Bali) (July 2008)

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[DATE : 31/Dec/2002]

The group Marsudi Raras from Delft performing ketawang Megatruh, ketawang Sinom Parijata, Bubaran Nyutro on the 100-yr old gamelan Kyai Paridjata (www.marsudiraras.org)

This is the last of 4 pieces that we performed on November 21, 2008 in the DeJong Concert Hall at BYU Featuring Ed Luna as dancer.

A thin slice of the larger ouvre of Balinese music, the Ketjak, or Kecak, was developed in the 1930s using ancient dance and chant forms, and portions of the Vedic epic, the Ramayana. People starting hearing about this more recently because of the excellent film "Baraka,"and clips of that are posted around. This clip is old footage from the 70s, and has a great monkey. We used to listen to this stuff for hours back in the 60s, cranked up to top volume, while we watched the walls crawling with psychedelic hieroglyphics. There is some dispute about the comments of the narrator at the beginning. Most of the "corrections" that people have posted are so riddled with profanity I've had to remove them - apparently it's a touchy subject.. I guess we should take the narration with a grain of salt, however...