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Gamelan, which is the music accompanying the puppet show, is played in pelog or slendro tones according to the atmosphere of the scene being played. Gamelan music supports the delivery of values in wayang performances. The type of gamelan music for puppetry is different from gamelan music for dance or ordinary musical songs.
Daniel Schmidt is an American composer and builder of American gamelan. He currently teaches gamelan and instrument building at Mills College. He is also a long-time collaborator with composer Paul Dresher. Schmidt earned a BA in music from Westminster Choir College and an MFA in composition and Javanese music from California Institute of the ...
American and other new music Gamelan Son of Lion presents new music concerts in New York City and downstate New York counties. A subsidiary group, Rockland Angklung Society, plays Balinese and American pieces for gamelan angklung and is based in Rockland County, 30 min. NW of the city. [3] [10] Gamelan Yowana Sari
Reviews of a large number of recording by gamelan groups outside of Indonesia. "Interaction: New Music for Gamelan." Notes to accompany CD of same title, in Leonardo Music Journal, V. 2, 1992. "There Is No They There." Musicworks, no. 47, 1990, pp. 12–23. "'In the Beginning Was the Melody': the gamelan music of Lou Harrison."
Gamelan Son of Lion, a Javanese-style iron American gamelan based in New York City that is devoted to new music, playing in a loft in Soho, Manhattan in 2007 Kyai Barleyan, a Javanese gamelan at Oberlin College in Ohio. Acquired in 1970, it is believed to be the third-oldest gamelan in use in the United States.
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The American Gamelan Institute (AGI) is an organization devoted to promoting and documenting all forms of gamelan, the performing arts of Indonesia, and their international counterparts. The institute was founded in Berkeley, California , in 1981; the office moved to New Hampshire in 1990.
King Crimson were an English-based progressive rock band formed in London in 1968. Led by guitarist Robert Fripp, [1] [2] they drew inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, blues, industrial, electronic, experimental music and new wave.