Besides Steve Reich, one significant classical composer who was influenced
considerably by gamelan, and who works with electronics, is Ingram
Marshall, who lived and studied in Bali. I highly recommend his new CD,
titled Kingdom Come, available on ECM Records. There are three compositions
on the record. The one that comes to mind in reference to gamelan is a
series of four hymns, titled "Hymnodic Delays" (which could be the name of
an Orb record). The piece sets these four early-American hymns for four
voices (one woman, three men) plus carefully calibrated electronic delays.
The result is beautiful. Each voice echoes on for several cycles, and the
sounds overlap into a lovely, sustained, quilt-like format. This particular
music doesn't have the proto-techno pattern quality that is most closely
associated with gamelan, but it does touch on the kind of extended
resonance that those patterns create, where a note reverberates on its own
and is echoed by other notes. Really beautiful stuff.
Marc
At 08:44 PM 7/19/01 -0400, p_science wrote:
quoted 44 lines Check out my (Professor Science) track to be released on the Vibon 2 comp
>Check out my (Professor Science) track to be released on the Vibon 2 comp
>(http://www.tbtmo.com) sometime soon. Heavy use of chopped up gamelan,
>which I'm absolutely in love with. Also check out artists like The Dylan
>Group, Ninety-Nine, and Tortoise for beautiful music w/ gamelans.
>
>p_science
>
>On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, d_jak wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:39:20 -0400
> > From: d_jak <d_jak@netzero.net>
> > To: idm@hyperreal.org
> > Subject: [idm] gamelan and IDM
> >
> > i played in a gamelan for 3.5 years while in college and i've always been
> > intruiged by the parallels i saw between gamelan and IDM. (My first
> > reaction was something like "wow, proto-techno" :-P ) anyway, i've only
> > come across one artist who has attempted to meld IDM and gamelan: Jhno -
> > Kwno (came out 97 or 98, i think?). "drum & java" is a great song, but i
> > feel a lot more could be done using traditional javanese structures to
> build
> > electronic music. anyone know of any artists who've sampled gamelan music,
> > cited it as an influence, etc...? sorry if this has been discussed
> > previously.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > - d
> >
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