Small group sessions of people who attended our Resonate Connect sessions in autumn winter 2022-2023

Resonate: Connect and Create

Gong and Kenong Duet (Paul and Kim)

November 2023

Free Improvisation 2

Free Improvisation 1

Spirals - Paul Conducts

Wham! Bam! Thank You, Mam Abby, Lisa, Andrew

Flowing Bubbles - Alex, Support Worker, David

Meri Chunar Udd Udd Jaye

Group Improvisation 2

Laal Duputta

Autumn Leaves

Group Improvisation

Musical Conversations, Part 1

Winter Solstice

Kothek (traditional)

Forged In Steel - Composition By Chrystine

Group Improvisation 1

Dubstep Track (by Darren)

Zombie Dance (by Andrew)

Legal Aid (by Steve Ft. Paul)

Monduki (ft. Pedro, Supreme And TNV)

Deja Vu (by Darren)

If Only (by Steve)

Free (ft. Pedro, Goody)

Opposites (by Andrew)

Street Life (by Steve Ft. Supreme)

Prada (instrumental) (by Luca)

Falling To You (by Asha - Haze)

Prison Blues (by Steve)

Fatty Conducts

Climate Drums

These tracks are for use with the Gamelan Room App - https://good-vibrations.org.uk/testsite/beta-2022/.

Kandhang Bubrah - Bonang Panerus Demo

Adding On Improvisation 2

The Loud Wolf Roars In The Circle

Adding On Improvisation 1

Two And Six, Three And Five

Trios in Circles

This is an excerpt from Fireworks in the Bathtub, and other stories by Emily Crossland

05 - (Emily Crossland) Fireworks In Edit

Alex explains how he created this track: 

"It was written on a program called Ableton, which I used to listen through one of the recordings of our (Nottingham) Gamelan session and from there I was able to slice the recording up into small samples that would loop nicely. 

I wrote all the drum beats myself from scratch in different layers and added some effects such as echo / delay and reverb to give them more room. 

The vocal samples were recordings of myself singing 'Om' on a loop on a few layers, and then a recording of myself singing parts of a vedic / hindu mantra with loads of echo / delay to make it sound a bit spacey."

Thank you to participants of Resonate Nottingham for playing and DJ Anu for the remix.

Shurangamelan

Good Vibrations is a registered charity (number 1126493) that helps prisoners, patients in secure hospitals, ex-prisoners and others in the community to develop crucial life and work skills through participating in intensive Gamelan (Indonesian bronze percussion) courses. Since 2003 Good Vibrations has worked with more than 3200 participants in 49 different secure institutions. Gamelan is an extremely effective tool for achieving our aims:

- It is very accessible
- You don’t need to have any previous musical experience
- You don’t need to be able to read music
- It’s easy to learn the basics
- It’s a very communal activity - there is no overall conductor or leader and 
  everyone’s contribution is equally important
- You have to listen to everyone else to fit your own part in

A Good Vibrations project typically runs as a week-long course for a group of 15 - 20 participants. Most will not have done anything musical before. At the end of the week the group puts on an informal performance. Each performance is recorded and a CD is produced, a copy of which is given to everyone who has taken part. Participants will benefit enormously from the short but intensive experience.

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