#Javanese Gamelan

[daily-instruments]

Daily Instrument — Bonang

The bonang is an idiophone played in the Javanese gamelan. The Bonang has one or two rows of gongs placed onto strings inside of a wooden frame. The gong in the bonang are shaped into the form of kettles, and are struck with padded sticks called tabuh. The bonang has three types in the Javanese gamelan, all varying in pitch. From highest to lowest the types are the bonang panerus, bonang barung, and bonang panembung.

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

i get soooo excited when i hear a piece of music with a certain haunting rhythmic timbre. like [points] GAMELAN!!!

[canaryrecords]

According to Mantle Hood's The Evolution of Javanese Gamelan, the first bronze drums (horizontal kettle gongs) arrived to Java from mainland southeast Asia shortly after 300 BCE. Javaneses bronzesmiths worked toward casting tuned instruments for hundreds of years before the first sets of instruments were acquired by the kings around 300 CE. The forging of metallophone instruments of varying qualities proliferated for over a millennium. Some were exported to the mainland and surrounding islands, and nearly every village had a set, but the best quality instruments went to the palaces.

The court of the Mangkunegaran lineage was established in the middle of the 18th century. Within a hundred years its palace was a center of cultural activity, known for poetry, dance, and music. In the middle of the 19th century, the court became closely associated with the Langendriyan form of music-and-dance drama, danced and sung entirely by women, including the male roles. The recordings presented here were among the first made of the palace's musical art-forms including the Langendriyan tellings of the 14th-15th century stories of the hero-prince Damarwulan and his nearly invincible enemy Menak Jingga who threatened the Majapahit Empire.

A footnote in Sumarsam's Javanese Gamelan and the West points out that: "Besides the recordings of langendriyan at the Mangkunegaran court, the [record] companies also produced recordings of langendriyan music performed by kethoprak and wayang wong [theatrical] troupes outside the court, suggesting the popularity of langendriyan at the time. It seems that by the late nineteenth century, as wayang wong became a popular genre, the dancers of [that genre] adapted the music of langendriyan, especially the key musical feature of the genre: the singing of poetry by the dancers accompanied by srepegan [a brief rhythmic composition for the entrances and exits of characters]."

Some subsequent recordings of that repertoire were made in 1968 by E. L. Heins and, more thoroughly, in 1992 under the direction of Tamura Fumi. (Fumi made other notable recordings of the Mangkunegaran palace gamelans, as did Jacques Brunet and Alan Feinstein '70s.) The recordings made before Indonesian Independence have not circulated for nearly a century, so we have taken this opportunity to present these discs from the collection of Michael Robertson.

Certainly the 78rpm 10" disc format was not an ideal transmitter of the spaciousness and orchestral complexity of the music, particularly in the cases of long-form performance genres. But for those interested or with an abiding love of the elegance of the music, it is a rare opportunity to experience it in the present connected to a receding past.

[eenniess]

everytime im doing a javanese traditional dance it's just making me feel something in a mystic way

[soussune]

an indologic sketch i realised i never posted here...here's javanese artemy playing gender (a gamelan instrument. pronounced like "guhn-dare". and yes we do make gender jokes abt it. he's playing the solo intro to this song btw and it looks like this)

[burlveneer-music]

Peni Candra Rini - Wani - you are unlikely to hear a better gamelan/rock crossover album than this one!

Peni Candra Rini (she/her), the Indonesian composer and performer whose musical practice encompasses a wide range of traditional and experimental Javanese styles mixed with western instrumentation, releases her second album of 2024. Wani is full of playful noise, rambunctious energy, and a deep sense of the unexpected. The album was created by giving the recorded musicians “very basic outlines” of the songs, improvising around those frameworks in the studio, and giving producers John Dieterich (Deerhoof, Mary Halvorson, Sufjan Stevens, Booker Stardrum) and Chris Botta (Yaeji, Emily Wells, the JACK Quartet, Valee, Shahzad Ismaily) “free reign to produce the tracks as they liked.” The result is a loud, fun, chaotic, energizing, and mesmerizing collection of songs that explore themes from traditional Javanese art, scripture, politics, shadow play, and song. Peni Candra Rini: voice Satomi Matzusaki: voice Jessica Zike: voice Andy McGraw: drums, pin-pia, percussion, cak, cuk, celeste, gamelan, harpsichord Hannah Standiford: cak Clover Dosier: cuk Robert Andrew Scott: fiddle Brian Larson: percussion Nat Quick: guitar, ukulele Gary Kalar: guitar Curt Sydnor: keyboards Brandon Simmons: flute John Priestley: bass, gongs Joanne Kong: harpsichord Putu Hiranmayena: gamelan I Gusti Putu Sudarta: voice Taylor Burton: gamelan Nicholas Merillat: gamelan Justin Alexander: drums Scott Clark: drums

[sockie2sock]

There's a leak about masters of the night-wind ost and FINALLY WE GOT SOME INDO REPRESENTATION!!!

My javanese grandma literally asked which gamelan song was that.

Ngl, kinda wish Ororon, Citlali, the tribe as a whole were based of indo or one of the ethnic groups now lol

[horsesource]

“When Wawan was young, his family was perplexed by his behavior. He didn’t respond to his name or play with toys, only a metal spoon. He had difficulty sitting still..When Wawan eventually started speaking, instead of having typical conversations, he would recite daily updates like a television newscaster.

Soon after he came to Yogyakarta, I watched him perform gamelan, a traditional orchestra made of metallophones, gongs, and drums, with his classmates and teachers at a local festival. At one point, wearing a batik sarong and a Javanese blankon hat, Wawan proudly took center stage for a spirited vocal solo.

For Wawan, enthusiastic membership in his Islamic community has been important, with his skill for memorization and passion for performance.”

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SONEMIC CHALLENGE

new age

ambient americana

ambient trance

impressionism

hindustani classical music

ragga jungle

solonese gamelan, javanese gamelan

mallsoft

avant-folk

khayal

[daily-instruments]

Daily instrument — Gendèr

The gendèr is a Balinese and Javanese metallophone, played in a gamelan ensemble. It’s thin keys are strung up by cords on metal/bone supports whilst above bamboo resonators.  When the keys are hit with a disc-headed mallet, it produces sound based on its respective key. The gendèr is then muted using either the heel of the hand or the pinky. The gendèr has the longest sustain in gamelan, even lasting a whole minute, because of its sustain, the gendèr is the only truly polyphonic instrument in the gamelan.

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English Folk Song Suite (Ralph Vaughan Williams):

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Mother Goose Suite (Maurice Ravel):

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Each movement of this suite was inspired by a children's or folk tale. It was originally written for two pianos and dedicated to the two children of sculpter Godebski. Ravel later scored it for orchestra (which is this version) and ballet. The music is just so French and wonderful…lots of beautiful textures and colors. My favorite movement (no. 3) has such cool orchestration - Ravel uses a lot of metallic and wooden keyboard percussion, celesta, and it's also very woodwind focused. I'm a flutist and I love all the flute and piccolo parts. The title of this movement is also kinda funny…it literally translates to "Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas." Like a lot of French music of the time, this movement in particular has a lot of influences from southeast Asian music (pentatonic scales, and the percussion textures used sort of mimic Javanese gamelan music). I like this recording from a musical standpoint but also because the album cover is so silly lol

[sivavakkiyar]

This is a wistfully sad, touching work. It uses an authentic Indonesian gamelan orchestra and violin, and its method of composition results in an inspired confluence of Western and Indonesian musical theory…. The Threnody, a piece uniting the Western violin with the Eastern gamelan, is also a piece uniting the Indonesian tuning mode that determines its exact notes with an example of the rhythmic modes that dominated Western European musical theory in the Medieval era. Technically, the piece is described as an eight-layered rhythmic mode over a single maxima entirely in triple divisions. Harrison points out that if he had changed just one part of this description -- making the divisions duple instead of triple -- the result would have been in a classical Javanese form called Ketawang.

Happy birthday, Lou.

[yt]

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[bionikoboy]

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[videostak]

oh ya i went to the thrift it was v chilly walking but it wasnt too bad and was bright out n stuff so that was nice i bought some cute tops and some jeans im hoping fit comfy. kinda gonna try to find some looser girl jeans even if theyre meh just cause i need stuff that i can wear with boxers lol. even tho now boxers make me feel  all stuffy and like i much prefer panties n stuff but i have lots of boxers so i wanna have clothes thats also loose and works with them and theyre still fun to wear. anyways ya i got that and also got a machito record which im excited to listen to cause i like his album with lalo rodriguez a lot (wanna get it on CD someday in the future) but ya the record i got is just by him so im excited to listen to it :D and then also got 2 national geographics they had a ton there and i specifically looked thru all of them hoping to find one abt bali and balinese gamelan (lol) but they didnt have any but they did have one abt java and i think very very very briefly mention javanese gamelan in passing and have a pic either way got it to check it out and then the other one i got waas abt china in the early 70s which has lots of cool pictures and whatnot.