Working on new music for gamelan
December 31, 2015
Over the winter break, I’ve been working on some new music for gamelan. Following on from Naga Mas’ rather spectacular success with our gamelan-in-outer-space piece Gamelan Untethered, we have plans to do something along the same lines, but this time on an underwater theme. Below is a midi demo of something I’m working on for the group: a sort of sampak/kebyar fusion piece, pulling together some of the livelier ideas from the Javanese traditions with a Balinese-inspired melody.
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This may prove a little tricky to play!