ガムラン

gamelan

My wonderful year 8 class recently undertook a project of investigating Gamelan music from the Ketjak chorus to understanding the roles of instruments and composing their own! We were limited to Orff Instruments but then with the magic of an Ableton Live Pack (and some filmic ideas) these students adapted their music for a Shadow Puppet play made by their classmates in Indonesian. The music will be cut up (that's why there are repetitive percussion sections) and added to the film!

Please comment and add your own knowledge of Gamelan. We would all appreciate it!

Image CC License: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61393555@N04/8693107206/, Alexis Gravel

Year 8 Gamelan Projects 2014

This is American gamelan music and the music composed by me. This is all electronic music and made from my casio vz-1 or casio vz-10m. No other real Indonesian instruments were used. Enjoy.


Gamelan Reflections

I found a beautiful Sundanese song on youtube one fine day. Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uKWxFcl84
Decided to remix it with 808 beats because it was so nice. Reminds me of Indonesia, the country where I was born. Love going back to my roots and recreating the sounds through different genres. The gamelan instrument was not the instrument I found on my DAW, it was from the video I found and I fell in love with it so I decided to sample it. The original artist is unknown, I was unable to find the original producer of this song. I am not claiming, by any means, this song as 100% my work because the instruments that were used, except for the 808s, were not created by myself.  

Gamelan Sunda

My wonderful year 8 class recently undertook a project of investigating Gamelan music from the Ketjak chorus to understanding the roles of instruments and composing their own! We were limited to Orff Instruments but then with the magic of an Ableton Live Pack (and some filmic ideas) these students adapted their music for a Shadow Puppet play made by their classmates in Indonesian.

Please comment and add your own knowledge of Gamelan. We would all appreciate it!

Image CC License: http://www.flickr.com/photos/61393555@N04/8693107206/, Alexis Gravel

Group 4 Composition

Group 3 Composition

Group 2 Composition

Group 1 Composition

This piece uses a patch developed in Max/MSP to interpret the balungan (a central melodic pattern) in realtime.  The electronic parts are designed to complement the instrumental parts and played through the same instrument through transducers that effectively turn it into a set of metal speakers.  For more information on the project see http://gamelan.ardisson.net

Bonang with transducers, slenthem and kempyang/kethuk

Sunda Javanese Gamelan

gamelan sunda

Ruh Ki Sunda - Instrumental Suling & Perkusi Gamelan (Akoer Lah).flv

Music Educator, Author & Creative. I write original tracks for any project from plays to films. 
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