Indonesian and Indonesian-inspired sounds continue on this week's Komodo Dragon Show, Wednesday from 8-11am CT on 101.5 / www.umfm.com. For a refresher on what a gamelan is click here.
Set #1 - 8:00am - 9:30am
1. John Cage: Haikai (1986)
Road to Ubud
Artifact Music, ART-021
12:20
(Haikai is the plural of haiku? Cage instructs his performers to use non-traditional techniques, e.g., playing a gong with a violin bow. Spare musical gestures appear against a background of silence. The pertinent Wikipedia quote: The poetic genre "haikai involved a combination of comic playfulness and spiritual depth, ascetic practice and involvement in human society.")
(Haikai is the plural of haiku? Cage instructs his performers to use non-traditional techniques, e.g., playing a gong with a violin bow. Spare musical gestures appear against a background of silence. The pertinent Wikipedia quote: The poetic genre "haikai involved a combination of comic playfulness and spiritual depth, ascetic practice and involvement in human society.")
2. Nano Suratno: Anjeun (1980s)
9:11
3. Unknown-Sundanese: Jeruk Bali (1980s)
3:26
4. Unknown-Sundanese: Pulo Ganti (1960s)
8:09
5. Mark Duggan: Gamelan Solo (2000)
19:39
6. Burhan Sukarma: Samagaha (1997)
7:57
7. Burhan Sukarma: Rengga-Renggi (1999)
2:57
8. Unknown-Sundanese: Sorban Palid (1930s)
7:13
Tracks 2-8
Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan: Bill Brennan, Mark Duggan, Paul Houle, Blair Mackay, Andy Morris, Paul Ormandy, Bill Parsons & Andrew Timar
Solo
Artifact Music, ART-027
(The whole album. A suite of popular Sundanese tunes, plus world music at its finest: Mark Duggan's composition Gamelan Solo. "The intended mood is one of open spaces, simplicity and elegance with a narrative quality connecting the nine movements. The overall esthetic is not at all Indonesian, but rather, draws from a dramatic, minimalist language.")
Set #2 - 9:30am - 11:00am
9. Formes vocales
Anthologie des musiques de Bali Vol.1: Traditions populaires
Buda Records, 92600-2
65:15
10. Gamelan Angklung (rec. 1970)
Bali South: UCLA Ethnomusicology: Archive Series Vol.1
UCLA Ethnomusicology Publications, 88251 70003 2 8
35:08
(Gamelan angklung is "characteristic of rituals related to death, and therefore connected in Balinese culture to the invisible spiritual realm and transitions from life to death and beyond." It evokes a "combination of sacred sweetness and sadness.")
(Gamelan angklung is "characteristic of rituals related to death, and therefore connected in Balinese culture to the invisible spiritual realm and transitions from life to death and beyond." It evokes a "combination of sacred sweetness and sadness.")
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