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Friday, September 10, 2010 8 pm
World Premiere of Christine Southworth's Orang Besi for Gamelan Selonding (performed by Gamelan Semara Ratih from Ubud, Bali) and electronics.
Gamelan Bali: stunning gamelan music & dance
The group Semara Ratih, led by the award-winning Baris dancer Agung Anom, is made up of musicians who, unlike other gamelan groups, were chosen for their musical abilities from various neighbourhoods. The group performs a broad and varied programme and has completely mastered the traditional repertoire. However, because of their choice of the revitalized semarandana gamelan, they also specialised in new repertoire (kreasi) that they perform with great flair and virtuosity.
A semarandana gamelan combines two gamelans with different musical scales: pelog and slendro (both 5 tones), resulting in a 7-tone scale, which means that performers can play music that creates the appropriate atmosphere for each scene (mode). The intermezzo this evening consists of a Sundanese programme of traditional kecapi suling and tembang Sunda (West-Javanese chamber music).
International Gamelan Festival with leading ensembles from Sunda - Java and Bali. From Sunda Gugum Gumbira and his Jugala ensemble, Euis Komariah, Nano S. and Iwan Gunawan with his gamelan Kyai Fatahillah. From Ubud, Bali the well respected Semara Ratih with the Semaradhana gamelan directed by Anak Agung Anom. They perform both traditional and modern repertoire. The modern repertoire is dedicated to Steve Reich and will be under supervision of Evan Ziporyn (member of the Steve Reich Ensemble and Bang-on-a-Can).
Tickets € 27.50
PROGRAM NOTE: Years ago in Tenganan, my friend Ketut showed me her freshly woven gringsing, the unique traditional cloth of the Bali Aga. They looked different than her older weavings - the colors were brighter, the pattern tighter, and when I asked her why she said that a mouse had eaten holes into her old cloth so she reused the thread, mixed with a new thread that she had just spun.
Orang Besi ("Iron Men") is a concoction exploring the oldest, most authentic and most sacred form of Balinese gamelan, the selonding, blended with the newest and in a sense most artificial form, the electronic gamelan. Weaving elements of modernity into the fabric of the ancient Bali Aga melodies and forms, I hope to present a bright new take on a tradition that I hold in the utmost respect, preserving the essence of one of the most perfect musics in the world, embellished with a neoteric yarn.
- CHRISTINE SOUTHWORTH
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, NYC
Bayu Sabda Idep, Evan Ziporyn's stunning work for string orchestra and Beta Gamelan, at Carnegie Hall. Galak Tika will perform with New York cutting-edge chamber orchestra, Signal, on this ALL ZIPORYN concert in Zankel Hall.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Elek Trika: SUPER COLLIDER by Christine Southworth
MIT Festival, curated by Evan Ziporyn
Kresge Auditorium, MIT
Christine Southworth's SUPER COLLIDER for The Kronos Quartet and Gamelan Galak Tika's brand new MIDI gamelan, GAMELAN ELEKTRIKA, designed and built by GGT alum and founder of Harmonix Music Alex Rigopulos. Details TBA.
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