i am balinese, and listening gambelan every day, but i learn a lot from your video, thanks for your appreciation and big effort to make this video, one of masterpiece video i watched on youtube,, terimakasih banyak
Eka, what a beautiful thing to read, thank you so much! It's moving to hear that someone from such a rich culture was able to get something from my work 🙏 Terimakasih banyak teman!
Thank you so much for this great documentary! I am 57 yrs now but back in '92 when I discovered Balinese Gamelan, its precision really stood out to my ears and so this explanation really nails it (no figure of speech needed when hammering the gongs). One interesting info I learned is each gong, blade etc is either female or male and so when struck together, they vibrate your eardrums, both being off-key. Genius to think of it from this great musical nation, the Balinese.
Bravo to you, the programmers, and the musicians, Augustine! I really enjoyed the explanation. I've been listening to and watching gamelan since 1975. You and this "team" have made a worthy contribution to the music world! Thanks!
This is mindblowing. I've loved gamelan music since I first heard it as a kid in Bali. More recently I was watching videos and thought "they can't be playing all of those notes with one mallet, so they must have to syncopate and play them separately", and this video confirmed that with the section on interlocking patterns. It looks really really difficult! Especially the sangsih part, that must take a lot of practice, jeeeez. Thanks for the informative video.
When I first heard this, it sounded a bit chaotic. The more I listen to it though, the more I've come to appreciate how complex and insanely difficult it would be to perform something like this. These musicians are extremely talented. Thank you for sharing this and thanks to the two groups for allowing the footage of their performance to be shared here on TH-cam.
@@8Zk3 when I first heard it too, my ear couldn't make sense of it. The same with other complex music like jazz: jazz solos used to sound very random to me because my ear couldn't keep up
I’m preparing for my trip to Bali where I intend to spend about four weeks… I read the history of Bali… The political history of Bali… Architecture… Religion… Philosophical aspects… And of course, the history of music in every day life… I just finished a very complex book on the musicality of Bali… And then I saw your video! … What you covered was basically the equivalent of me reading a 400 page book lol I cannot tell you how helpful and how enlighten your video is and I really appreciate the effort that you put into it because it definitely shows… Thank you so much.,,
Im watching this in Bali. Wonderful video, really excellent. Pity most people who come to Bali just go to the clubs and bars and never hear the gamelan.
I agree 100%. That's a big reason I made this video, so many people know Bali for it's natural beauty, and don't know that Balinese arts are beautiful, deep, and challenging
@@esterhammerfic yes absolutely!! It amazes me that people fly across the world to Bali just to eat pizza and listen to the same old songs. Your video is a fabulous contribution to keeping the Balinese culture alive and well and helping us to appreciate it's complexity. I wonder if the sounds are divinely inspired, intentionally mystical. I have had the most profound experiences praying alongside Balinese in the village pura, much of this was down to the specific gamelan music which was played which was intensely enchanting.
@@retribution999 yes, many Balinese friends of mine say that the spirituality of the island goes hand in hand with the music, it's role in local life and ceremonies. I hope to see that one day, I haven't yet been able to visit. Enjoy your time there!
I used to play marching bass drum in highschool, which works very similarly to gangsa in terms of creating one whole musical piece out of several rhythmically interlocking layers performed by different musicians. And I just have to say, most people don't realize how insanely difficult it is to play only *half* of a song, together with the other half. Gamelan music is just so incredibly impressive on even just that aspect alone
100% agreed, marching band bass drumming is probably the closest we get in Western culture, it's a whole different skill playing interlocking things like that.
Thanks a lot for your time and effort. Brilliant video. That OMBAK effect is one of the craziest stuff I've ever seen in music. I'd pay you many cups of coffee if you make more videos like this, explaining Gamelan stuff, more about instruments, differences between types of orchestras and Gamelan (Balinese x Javanese) with examples...and if you could explain some of the stuff related to tuning systems, intervals...and its differences in relation to western music. I discovered Gamelan because of that beatiful video on the Sound Tracker channel, and got obsessed with it. I'm studying music at college now ("Bacharelado em Música Popular" here in the south of Brazil), and we had to do a research about any scale...I chose the pelog scale. So you can see how obsessed I am. As it is something new for me, I'm still trying to absorb everything I've been studying about Gamelan...and your video helped a lot, as it beautifully illustrates elements of this music style. Thanks a lot and I hope your channel gets more viewers and people interested.
Thanks a lot Marcelo! So glad you enjoyed the video. I am hoping to continue work on videos that go more in-depth on different aspects of gamelan, especially drumming, gong cycles, and things having to do with form and structure. The Soundtracker video is quite good. Hopefully I'll be finishing a full-length animation with the help of Stephen Malinowski, or Smalin, a classical music animator on TH-cam. Stay tuned!
Hi, i'm balinese and a gangsa player. And i can say, your explanation is a TOP TIER, even i just get a lot of detailed information from you ... awesome work brother...
Terimakasih saya dari Peliatan Ubud,Gong Gunung Sari sejak berdiri sampai sekarang masih tetap eksis Pentas setiap hari Sabtu di Puri Agung Peliatan ❤❤
saya sangat suka dan tertarik dari analisa anda terhadap musik gamelan bali, penjelasan sangat detail, betapa musik gamelan bali yang rumet bisa di urai dalam bagian2 kecil dan itu sangat magic dan membuat merinding bulu roma saat di dengar, thanks Agustin , thanks very much.
Terimakasih banyak Bromo! Saya senang sekali mendengar bahwa Anda suka video ini! Saya berharap karya saya bisa membantu dunia menghargai musik Bali. Suksma!
Thank you for making this video! I am using it as a reference in my Akira themed sound design course :D I really appreciate all of the effort and I know my students' brains will MELT and ooze out their ears when they click your link ;)
@@illGatesMusic thanks for the message! I was hoping it would be an ideal video for a classroom introduction, so I hope they enjoy! My other video about the work Teruna Jaya is also good for understanding the full orchestration of Balinese gamelan 🙏👍
Thank you, great video and good explanation of this special and astonishing music. I am a professional musician, but even after several times listening and watching the sequences of the quite long rhythmic patterns which are in itself complex already, the whole stays extremely complex for our western trained ears and it is truly fascinating how perfect those musicians are playing together, almost inhuman in this high tempo. Just fantastic music, what a discovery!
Thank you! You must be a fan of canons and such (I love the Missa Prolationum). What I hope to do next is a video about how the inner melodies work: in Balinese music there is a series of melodies, each slower than the last as you move down through the octaves. So the slower voices punctuate notes of the upper melodies, which are embellishing those slower parts. Once you start examining pieces that have longer structures, irregular meters, and complex gong cycles, you find a depth of creativity on display.
Fantastic video. Kudos to you and everyone involved with this. Your explanation of Kotekan patterns was so great, the visualisers really helped. I own a guitar that is customly fretted to erv wilsons meta pelog scale. A scale very similiar to ones used in bali. I installed seperate frets next to the original frets so every note has an acconpanying note 8HZ higher. Kind of my own cheated version of Ombak. Again great video, I cannot believe this is free to watch on youtube. ❤
What an amazing and incredible music, so complicated and enchanting, a lot of talented musicians 🤍✨ And thank you so much for sharing this valuable video!!
I'm just discovering gamelan and the visual note representations are amazingly helpful to overcome the initial overload of rhythmic complexity. Fascinating video. Many thanks!
I fell in love with this music especially after playing in an ensemble under Pak Nyoman Wenten and this video has helped me flesh out my knowledge of the terminology a lot! Edit: if anyone has any tips on practicing Sangsih, I will be eternally grateful
@@btat16 Pak Wenten is the man! I usually practice sangsih by recording the polos on my phone (at a slow tempo) and then listening in headphones while I play the sangsih
@@esterhammerfic Your recording trick is doing amazing! I recorded the Polous at various speeds and am practicing Sangsih at the Cantilan right now. With it being my own recording, I can’t blame anyone else for speeding up or slowing down lol. Thanks so much!
Great video! Really helped me with a research/experimenting with music project I'm doing for school. My plan is to make a Gamelan version of Everything in its right place by Radiohead :)) All the animations, midi representations, layering really made it easy to understand and engaging.
Wow. thank you so much for making this video! Now I understand a bit more why I totally burst into tears and cried through the entire show, watching Balinese dance and music perfomance in Bali, some years ago. Right away from the first note of music until the end. I was moved on a very deep level! There is just something deeply spiritual about this, and about Bali, that I cannot understand, and don't have to! So thank you for making this video and sharing it with the world!
Thank you for sharing this, Ronja! Yes, it's a very unique artistic culture, and I think more people would find it incredible if they were able to see the deep level of dedication Balinese artists have. The spiritual world of Bali's religions is also deep and fascinating, it permeates so much of daily life and the arts. Thank you for the support!
Thank you so much for your video. I've been in a bit of a gamelan rabbit hole lately and, while there are many great videos out there on the instruments, tunings, ombak, and so on, the break-down of kotekan and all the visualizations in yours is unparalleled
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that! I actually just released a new gamelan video today, this is about a larger animation project that I've been working on. You might enjoy it! th-cam.com/video/Q9u6jXm4qLE/w-d-xo.html
Wow great video, I know this consume a lot of time, but the result was Great, Thank you Augustine fro bring high quality content about Balinese Gambelan, Subcribed👍
Thank you for making this amazing video, i have Osing tribe blood and Osing gamelan music are not far same dynamic with Balinese, with the interlocking things, kendang ryhm etc. Thank you, your video is very useful, i have new understanding about the patterns from you 🙏🙂🙏
I'm Indonesian and javanese, I a musician and I want to learn balinese gamelan and searched "balinese gamelan" and I didn't expect to get this knowledge from non Indonesian but thankyou so much
I was wishing that each part of the kotekan examples could be shown separately and played at half speed. Excellent video, and thanks for your obviously hard work on it.
Thank you! And don't worry, you can slow the video down using the TH-cam playback controls on the bottom. Slowing it down would have made it over 20 minutes long, and some people said it moves slowly. I figured it's better to try to find a middle ground and make it shorter 👍
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen on the subject of Balinese music and how the patterns are woven together. I am just back from Bali to attend IMEX2024 and heard a few gamelan ensembles as well as other groups that are integrating traditional percussion. I also visited the Tari gong factory - incredible! And had a quick gamelan lesson at Puri Lukisan. But blown away by your work - thank you so much!
I guessed you must have been there to study before! You will love it! I have some Bali contacts - shall I forward them to you? Will you also visit Australia?
@@michaelaskill1526 with a short schedule I won't be able to stop in Australia, but sure I'd love some contacts! My Instagram or fb, both under my same name, is a good place to reach me
Have loved gamelan music for many years. Just got through reading "A House In Bali". I'm guessing Colin McPhee would have been amazed and very pleased with what you've done here!
Thank you for this. Gamelan is my favourite kind of music, and I enjoy it for the mathematics hidden within it. This video is better than top tier information for the curious.
@@cray56 Thanks so much, I'm happy to help a fellow gamelan fanatic! If you like that, you might also like this video I did: th-cam.com/video/Q9u6jXm4qLE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fIS9KvWaqnMTjJ9t
That's a relief to hear because I'm very self-conscious about my Indonesian/Balinese pronunciation. I did so many takes to try to sound correct! Your comment makes me feel better about it 🙏
This video is absolutely fantastic, thank you so much! Long shot but is there any chance of getting the gong cycles as samples so I can use them as a metronome for practicing? Yours sound so much richer than my midi click track
I am quite familiar with gamelan music and love it's many styles and nuances, and I also use many gamelan samples in my own music compositions, but WOW, your explanation and the demos really makes me appreciate even more, not only the instruments themselves, but also the level of skill and memory needed for this intricate and at times bewildering art form, especially with the speed some of the pieces are played at. Mesmerising. Augustine, your dedication to put this video together is epic and greatly appreciated. . . Makasih Banyak. . .
Made, thank you for the words of encouragement 🙏 I appreciate that. I don't know if I will get a chance to study for a PhD but I hope to always keep creating videos like this and going deeper into the music
Amazing video, thanks! You and the other musicians are really talented. It's really beautiful music! And, seeing the animations of the notes was really helpful. I don't know how you do notes between other notes at those tempos. As a musician, that's one if the most difficult things for me, even at a moderate tempo.
Thanks for the comment! It takes a lot of practice to play the notes in between, but it strangely can become more natural with time. It's necessary to start slowly, though.
the visualization you created at 1:22 is astounding. and i see you show the interlocking kotekan through the green and blue notes too- smart! where did you find the footage used alongside the audio on this visualization? there's a minute-long video here on youtube uploaded in like 2008, but someone is talking over it. it's nice seeing such an enjoyable video on this topic after being part of a community gamelan ensemble at a university nearby me for a few years :] edit: so glad to see kebyar perak in this video! it's the first gamelan piece i ever learned to play on the polos part of the gangsa kotekan. it's so fun to play.
Thanks for the comment! I grabbed the historical footage from a video on rhythm by Simon Rattle, which gave a really short description of Balinese Gamelan (the kind where they just say it's fast and that "Debussy heard gamelan one time"). That might be the video you're thinking of. It's actually a different piece, not Kebyar Ding, but I wanted to show some of the instruments so that people could better understand what they were seeing and hearing, so I figured out ways to line up the video as if they're playing this older (and better quality) audio recording. That's great! Kebyar Perak is a great piece, I mostly know it from the Cudamani CD, Bamboo to Bronze, which is worth hearing if you haven't yet.
Iya, saya ada rencana pada membuat video tentang kendang juga, dan neliti/pokok (karena adalah banyak penting), tapi sekarang saya sedang selesai animasi Teruna Jaya yang lengkap. Semoga saya selesai segera!
I've watched this video. but it's still faster than the intro of the gamelan "Grehing Kaulu". Until now I am still surprised by the speed of the intro "Grehing Kaulu"
This was a great video tytyty Ive always been really into gamelan and found out recently about Phillipino gamelan . The interlocking rhythms and melodys are mind blowing of the Balinese.
I would love to, right now I don't have a teacher or know anyone in my city who knows the Sundanese style and owns the instruments. Maybe I can go to Indonesia some day🤞 but so far I haven't had the money to do that yet
Dear Augustine, thank you so much for this documentary! I have a question, are there still pieces played from the Bali royal courts? When the music was more slow/refined? then after the 1910 period? Can I find them on TH-cam? Greetings from Holland.
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i am balinese, and listening gambelan every day, but i learn a lot from your video, thanks for your appreciation and big effort to make this video, one of masterpiece video i watched on youtube,,
terimakasih banyak
Eka, what a beautiful thing to read, thank you so much! It's moving to hear that someone from such a rich culture was able to get something from my work 🙏
Terimakasih banyak teman!
suksma
I am Balinese and played Balinese gamelan. This is a great video❤
I'm writing an essay on balinese gamelan music and it's influence on western composers. This video is an absolute lifesaver!
Thank you so much for this great documentary! I am 57 yrs now but back in '92 when I discovered Balinese Gamelan, its precision really stood out to my ears and so this explanation really nails it (no figure of speech needed when hammering the gongs). One interesting info I learned is each gong, blade etc is either female or male and so when struck together, they vibrate your eardrums, both being off-key. Genius to think of it from this great musical nation, the Balinese.
Yes that's true, the drums too use that terminology: Wadon (female, the lower one) and Lanang (male).
Thanks for the kind words!
Bravo to you, the programmers, and the musicians, Augustine! I really enjoyed the explanation. I've been listening to and watching gamelan since 1975. You and this "team" have made a worthy contribution to the music world! Thanks!
I'm a Balinese who just started to learn playing Balinese instruments. Thank you for making this video, you gave really good explanation!
That's awesome! Have fun learning
wow I just recently found gamelan music, changed my life. This video is amazing! I appreciate you for putting it together!
WTH! The explanation is top tier! Thank you for your contribution to the world.
This is mindblowing. I've loved gamelan music since I first heard it as a kid in Bali. More recently I was watching videos and thought "they can't be playing all of those notes with one mallet, so they must have to syncopate and play them separately", and this video confirmed that with the section on interlocking patterns. It looks really really difficult! Especially the sangsih part, that must take a lot of practice, jeeeez. Thanks for the informative video.
@@supanover thanks!
When I first heard this, it sounded a bit chaotic. The more I listen to it though, the more I've come to appreciate how complex and insanely difficult it would be to perform something like this. These musicians are extremely talented. Thank you for sharing this and thanks to the two groups for allowing the footage of their performance to be shared here on TH-cam.
@@8Zk3 when I first heard it too, my ear couldn't make sense of it. The same with other complex music like jazz: jazz solos used to sound very random to me because my ear couldn't keep up
I’m preparing for my trip to Bali where I intend to spend about four weeks… I read the history of Bali… The political history of Bali… Architecture… Religion… Philosophical aspects… And of course, the history of music in every day life… I just finished a very complex book on the musicality of Bali… And then I saw your video! … What you covered was basically the equivalent of me reading a 400 page book lol I cannot tell you how helpful and how enlighten your video is and I really appreciate the effort that you put into it because it definitely shows… Thank you so much.,,
@@otisotis5869 thank you for this comment! I hope your trip is great, I just went there for the first time a few months ago!
Im watching this in Bali. Wonderful video, really excellent. Pity most people who come to Bali just go to the clubs and bars and never hear the gamelan.
I agree 100%. That's a big reason I made this video, so many people know Bali for it's natural beauty, and don't know that Balinese arts are beautiful, deep, and challenging
@@esterhammerfic yes absolutely!! It amazes me that people fly across the world to Bali just to eat pizza and listen to the same old songs. Your video is a fabulous contribution to keeping the Balinese culture alive and well and helping us to appreciate it's complexity. I wonder if the sounds are divinely inspired, intentionally mystical. I have had the most profound experiences praying alongside Balinese in the village pura, much of this was down to the specific gamelan music which was played which was intensely enchanting.
@@retribution999 yes, many Balinese friends of mine say that the spirituality of the island goes hand in hand with the music, it's role in local life and ceremonies. I hope to see that one day, I haven't yet been able to visit. Enjoy your time there!
I used to play marching bass drum in highschool, which works very similarly to gangsa in terms of creating one whole musical piece out of several rhythmically interlocking layers performed by different musicians. And I just have to say, most people don't realize how insanely difficult it is to play only *half* of a song, together with the other half. Gamelan music is just so incredibly impressive on even just that aspect alone
100% agreed, marching band bass drumming is probably the closest we get in Western culture, it's a whole different skill playing interlocking things like that.
along with jazz and death metal and marching drums I couldn't be more impressed by the players
You've done a great video, as a Balinese I salute you, best wishes for you and your chanel
Thank you from Bali 🙏🎉🎉
Thank you Indra!
Been going to Bali since 1984 and this is the first time I've understood these concepts. Great teaching video!
Thanks! Yes, it's a lot to take in, I've always wanted felt that animating it would make it clearer to understand
I'm from Bali and learned a lot from your videos in which I have never knew it before. Thank you and great effort!
I'm so glad, thank you! That means a lot 🙏
Thanks a lot for your time and effort. Brilliant video. That OMBAK effect is one of the craziest stuff I've ever seen in music.
I'd pay you many cups of coffee if you make more videos like this, explaining Gamelan stuff, more about instruments, differences between types of orchestras and Gamelan (Balinese x Javanese) with examples...and if you could explain some of the stuff related to tuning systems, intervals...and its differences in relation to western music.
I discovered Gamelan because of that beatiful video on the Sound Tracker channel, and got obsessed with it. I'm studying music at college now ("Bacharelado em Música Popular" here in the south of Brazil), and we had to do a research about any scale...I chose the pelog scale. So you can see how obsessed I am.
As it is something new for me, I'm still trying to absorb everything I've been studying about Gamelan...and your video helped a lot, as it beautifully illustrates elements of this music style.
Thanks a lot and I hope your channel gets more viewers and people interested.
Thanks a lot Marcelo! So glad you enjoyed the video.
I am hoping to continue work on videos that go more in-depth on different aspects of gamelan, especially drumming, gong cycles, and things having to do with form and structure.
The Soundtracker video is quite good. Hopefully I'll be finishing a full-length animation with the help of Stephen Malinowski, or Smalin, a classical music animator on TH-cam. Stay tuned!
@@esterhammerficmake sense it is called ombak effect, it is "wavy"..
Hi, i'm balinese and a gangsa player. And i can say, your explanation is a TOP TIER, even i just get a lot of detailed information from you ... awesome work brother...
Thank you! Suksma!
This video deserve more view
i don't want to brag, but i feel like bali has the superiority of complexity in music and orchestra in asia.
Different types of music have different things that are beautiful, but I think it's the most intricate music in the world
@@esterhammerfic agree, every culture have their own uniqueness, and everyone should be proud of what they have and embrace it as their identity. 🙏
This is an INCREDIBLE resource. Thank you from me and Gamelan Sekar Jaya in Berkeley, CA!
Thanks so much Gillian! I've been moved by all the positive responses, I hope it brings more appreciation to this uniquely beautiful art form!
What a beautiful thing you have created. Instructive and so helpful. Thank you for this wonderful labour of love.
Terimakasih saya dari Peliatan Ubud,Gong Gunung Sari sejak berdiri sampai sekarang masih tetap eksis Pentas setiap hari Sabtu di Puri Agung Peliatan ❤❤
Bagus sekali, suatu hari nanti saya mau lihat Peliatan... Saya belum pernah punya cukup uang untuk pergi ke Bali tapi itu impian saya
Impressive description, proud to be Balinese and able to playing gamelan
Thank you!
saya sangat suka dan tertarik dari analisa anda terhadap musik gamelan bali, penjelasan sangat detail, betapa musik gamelan bali yang rumet bisa di urai dalam bagian2 kecil dan itu sangat magic dan membuat merinding bulu roma saat di dengar, thanks Agustin , thanks very much.
Terimakasih banyak Bromo!
Saya senang sekali mendengar bahwa Anda suka video ini! Saya berharap karya saya bisa membantu dunia menghargai musik Bali.
Suksma!
Thank you for making this video! I am using it as a reference in my Akira themed sound design course :D I really appreciate all of the effort and I know my students' brains will MELT and ooze out their ears when they click your link ;)
@@illGatesMusic thanks for the message! I was hoping it would be an ideal video for a classroom introduction, so I hope they enjoy! My other video about the work Teruna Jaya is also good for understanding the full orchestration of Balinese gamelan 🙏👍
Thank you, great video and good explanation of this special and astonishing music. I am a professional musician, but even after several times listening and watching the sequences of the quite long rhythmic patterns which are in itself complex already, the whole stays extremely complex for our western trained ears and it is truly fascinating how perfect those musicians are playing together, almost inhuman in this high tempo. Just fantastic music, what a discovery!
Thank you! You must be a fan of canons and such (I love the Missa Prolationum). What I hope to do next is a video about how the inner melodies work: in Balinese music there is a series of melodies, each slower than the last as you move down through the octaves.
So the slower voices punctuate notes of the upper melodies, which are embellishing those slower parts. Once you start examining pieces that have longer structures, irregular meters, and complex gong cycles, you find a depth of creativity on display.
Fantastic video. Kudos to you and everyone involved with this. Your explanation of Kotekan patterns was so great, the visualisers really helped.
I own a guitar that is customly fretted to erv wilsons meta pelog scale. A scale very similiar to ones used in bali. I installed seperate frets next to the original frets so every note has an acconpanying note 8HZ higher. Kind of my own cheated version of Ombak.
Again great video, I cannot believe this is free to watch on youtube. ❤
@@oakie__doke that sounds awesome, do you have a video with it?
@@esterhammerfic I plugged it in yesterday but sadly its pretty our of action at the moment
What an amazing and incredible music, so complicated and enchanting, a lot of talented musicians 🤍✨
And thank you so much for sharing this valuable video!!
I'm just discovering gamelan and the visual note representations are amazingly helpful to overcome the initial overload of rhythmic complexity. Fascinating video. Many thanks!
Thanks! If you enjoyed that, you may also enjoy my new gamelan video about animating a full classic piece.
th-cam.com/video/Q9u6jXm4qLE/w-d-xo.html
Agustine ..,you the best theacer ,can explain in detail ,..,good job .,you are the best.
Wonderful and very informative video, thanks!
I fell in love with this music especially after playing in an ensemble under Pak Nyoman Wenten and this video has helped me flesh out my knowledge of the terminology a lot!
Edit: if anyone has any tips on practicing Sangsih, I will be eternally grateful
@@btat16 Pak Wenten is the man! I usually practice sangsih by recording the polos on my phone (at a slow tempo) and then listening in headphones while I play the sangsih
@@esterhammerfic Your recording trick is doing amazing! I recorded the Polous at various speeds and am practicing Sangsih at the Cantilan right now. With it being my own recording, I can’t blame anyone else for speeding up or slowing down lol. Thanks so much!
@@btat16 excellent! I think it really takes the pressure off when you can do it as many times as you want
Love the expertise and respectful inclusion of the artist and culture. A rare treat, kind thanks.
Baru sedikit paham, memang animasi mampu memvisualisasikan dengan baik. Metode rekonstruksi nya tepat dengan animasi. Tks
Amazing! Thank you!
Great video! Really helped me with a research/experimenting with music project I'm doing for school. My plan is to make a Gamelan version of Everything in its right place by Radiohead :)) All the animations, midi representations, layering really made it easy to understand and engaging.
Wow. thank you so much for making this video! Now I understand a bit more why I totally burst into tears and cried through the entire show, watching Balinese dance and music perfomance in Bali, some years ago. Right away from the first note of music until the end. I was moved on a very deep level! There is just something deeply spiritual about this, and about Bali, that I cannot understand, and don't have to! So thank you for making this video and sharing it with the world!
Thank you for sharing this, Ronja!
Yes, it's a very unique artistic culture, and I think more people would find it incredible if they were able to see the deep level of dedication Balinese artists have.
The spiritual world of Bali's religions is also deep and fascinating, it permeates so much of daily life and the arts.
Thank you for the support!
Nice Gamelan Bali introduction, may able spread to the whole world 🙏🏻
Semoga! If Balinese gamelan is more recognized, I hope there's more attention to Sekaa gamelan and more success and desire to see them
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Excellent production quality, informative, concise, and beautiful.❤
This is so well done! Luar biasa!!
Thank you so much for your video. I've been in a bit of a gamelan rabbit hole lately and, while there are many great videos out there on the instruments, tunings, ombak, and so on, the break-down of kotekan and all the visualizations in yours is unparalleled
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that! I actually just released a new gamelan video today, this is about a larger animation project that I've been working on. You might enjoy it!
th-cam.com/video/Q9u6jXm4qLE/w-d-xo.html
Wow great video, I know this consume a lot of time, but the result was Great, Thank you Augustine fro bring high quality content about Balinese Gambelan, Subcribed👍
Thank you for making this amazing video, i have Osing tribe blood and Osing gamelan music are not far same dynamic with Balinese, with the interlocking things, kendang ryhm etc. Thank you, your video is very useful, i have new understanding about the patterns from you 🙏🙂🙏
Thanks for watching and for the kind words! I'll look for Osing gamelan!
@@esterhammerfic Osing or Banyuwangi, they are same ..you know what interesting about Banyuwangi/Osing gamelan,,sometimes they use violin 🙂
I'm Indonesian and javanese, I a musician and I want to learn balinese gamelan and searched "balinese gamelan" and I didn't expect to get this knowledge from non Indonesian
but thankyou so much
That's excellent! Thank you for watching and leaving the kind comment
Thanks for sharing this video
I was wishing that each part of the kotekan examples could be shown separately and played at half speed. Excellent video, and thanks for your obviously hard work on it.
Thank you! And don't worry, you can slow the video down using the TH-cam playback controls on the bottom.
Slowing it down would have made it over 20 minutes long, and some people said it moves slowly. I figured it's better to try to find a middle ground and make it shorter 👍
@@esterhammerfic Ah yes, production concerns, I know them well.
One of the best videos I’ve ever seen on the subject of Balinese music and how the patterns are woven together. I am just back from Bali to attend IMEX2024 and heard a few gamelan ensembles as well as other groups that are integrating traditional percussion. I also visited the Tari gong factory - incredible! And had a quick gamelan lesson at Puri Lukisan. But blown away by your work - thank you so much!
Thanks so much! I'm actually about to go there in a month for the first time in my life, very excited to go!
I guessed you must have been there to study before! You will love it! I have some Bali contacts - shall I forward them to you? Will you also visit Australia?
@@michaelaskill1526 with a short schedule I won't be able to stop in Australia, but sure I'd love some contacts! My Instagram or fb, both under my same name, is a good place to reach me
Great video! Thank you!
Vielen Dank für Ihre video ❤
Sangat suka Gamelan Bali.
Saat santai sering dengar Gamelan Bali.
Aku setuju, Gambelan Bali khusus
Have loved gamelan music for many years. Just got through reading "A House In Bali". I'm guessing Colin McPhee would have been amazed and very pleased with what you've done here!
Thank you, that means a lot!
The book is one of my favorites
Thank you for this. Gamelan is my favourite kind of music, and I enjoy it for the mathematics hidden within it. This video is better than top tier information for the curious.
@@corystevens7029 thank you!
damn... not expecting would be this good of a youtube video
Al the color graphics in the beginning. Pure art!!
Thank you 🙏🏽
Fantastic video.
Thank you so much for this. Gamelan is my favourite music. I especially loved the detail of following the notes!
@@cray56 Thanks so much, I'm happy to help a fellow gamelan fanatic! If you like that, you might also like this video I did: th-cam.com/video/Q9u6jXm4qLE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fIS9KvWaqnMTjJ9t
Great work. Thank you so much. This documentation feels very important and is really inspiring. Keep up the good work!
I appreciate the kind words, glad you enjoyed!
Amazing video
thank you very much for teaching us how to appreciate this art
Thank you so much
can you make a video on how balinese ga,elan ended up this way? Like its origins, history and influences that made it become so fast
You did it obviously amazing Agustine! You presented it so well and make it easy to understand. ❤
So kind of you to say, thank you! ❤️
Suastiastu
You are doing a great video, the interesting one is to digitalize gamelan's sound into modern music layers. Good job, dear semeton.
Thank you so much! Saya berharap membawa apresiasi ke gamelan Bali!
This was a very good video, your pronunciation really added to it and demonstrates how deeply you learned about gamelan music.
That's a relief to hear because I'm very self-conscious about my Indonesian/Balinese pronunciation. I did so many takes to try to sound correct!
Your comment makes me feel better about it 🙏
This video is absolutely fantastic, thank you so much!
Long shot but is there any chance of getting the gong cycles as samples so I can use them as a metronome for practicing? Yours sound so much richer than my midi click track
Yeah, do you want to message my Instagram account? TH-cam doesn't really have a good DM system
I am quite familiar with gamelan music and love it's many styles and nuances, and I also use many gamelan samples in my own music compositions, but WOW, your explanation and the demos really makes me appreciate even more, not only the instruments themselves, but also the level of skill and memory needed for this intricate and at times bewildering art form, especially with the speed some of the pieces are played at. Mesmerising. Augustine, your dedication to put this video together is epic and greatly appreciated. . . Makasih Banyak. . .
Thank you, it means a lot that I could help you appreciate it even more!
This is absolutely wonderful stuff! Thank you!
Terima kasih untuk ulasan yang sangat bagus. Ini luar biasa.
Terimakasih banyak!
Just wow❤
Bro Augustine, I think the accumulation of all your work deserves to be written as a Ph.D. thesis in the ethnomusicology field. 🙏
Made, thank you for the words of encouragement 🙏 I appreciate that. I don't know if I will get a chance to study for a PhD but I hope to always keep creating videos like this and going deeper into the music
Thanks for your appreciation,good luck my friend 👍👍👍
Thank you for your support!
Amazing video, thanks! You and the other musicians are really talented. It's really beautiful music! And, seeing the animations of the notes was really helpful.
I don't know how you do notes between other notes at those tempos. As a musician, that's one if the most difficult things for me, even at a moderate tempo.
Thanks for the comment!
It takes a lot of practice to play the notes in between, but it strangely can become more natural with time. It's necessary to start slowly, though.
damn really nice
Thank you for making this video. great job!
Thanks for the supportive comment! I appreciate it
Please make more videos like this.
the visualization you created at 1:22 is astounding. and i see you show the interlocking kotekan through the green and blue notes too- smart!
where did you find the footage used alongside the audio on this visualization? there's a minute-long video here on youtube uploaded in like 2008, but someone is talking over it.
it's nice seeing such an enjoyable video on this topic after being part of a community gamelan ensemble at a university nearby me for a few years :]
edit: so glad to see kebyar perak in this video! it's the first gamelan piece i ever learned to play on the polos part of the gangsa kotekan. it's so fun to play.
Thanks for the comment!
I grabbed the historical footage from a video on rhythm by Simon Rattle, which gave a really short description of Balinese Gamelan (the kind where they just say it's fast and that "Debussy heard gamelan one time"). That might be the video you're thinking of.
It's actually a different piece, not Kebyar Ding, but I wanted to show some of the instruments so that people could better understand what they were seeing and hearing, so I figured out ways to line up the video as if they're playing this older (and better quality) audio recording.
That's great! Kebyar Perak is a great piece, I mostly know it from the Cudamani CD, Bamboo to Bronze, which is worth hearing if you haven't yet.
@@esterhammerfic mhm, i figured the recording and footage were separate :] thank you so much for the in-depth info though!
15:14 man this actually hurts my ears but WHAT A AMAZING, PERFECT GAMELAN PERFORMANCE!!!! I listen to this also
its normal for new people to hear gamelan sounds very loud, you will get used to it.
Ini bagus sekali, Augustine! Keren!
Terima kasih banyak Kunto!
Good...and detail...
🙏🙏🙏
Amazing video, thank you so much
great explanation, very informative, thank you very much ❤
Om swastyastu semeton🙏
Mohon di bikinkan video mengenai tehnik2 kendang bali dan teori2nya,suksma🙏
Iya, saya ada rencana pada membuat video tentang kendang juga, dan neliti/pokok (karena adalah banyak penting), tapi sekarang saya sedang selesai animasi Teruna Jaya yang lengkap. Semoga saya selesai segera!
@@esterhammerfic siap.. ditunggu segera 🙏🙏
I've watched this video. but it's still faster than the intro of the gamelan "Grehing Kaulu". Until now I am still surprised by the speed of the intro "Grehing Kaulu"
That's true, also Delod Berawah by Pak Wayan Widia and Jagra Parwata by Pak Windha, those have very fast kotekan as well
This was extremely enlightening!
Thank you!
All this precise virtuosity on Gangsa- while playing upside down! Salut 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you! Actually I played it regular and flipped the image, I'm not as good as Balinese players haha
kerennn❤❤❤ love Indonesia🎉🎉
This was a great video tytyty Ive always been really into gamelan and found out recently about Phillipino gamelan . The interlocking rhythms and melodys are mind blowing of the Balinese.
Thank you for the kind comment, I'm glad you enjoyed! Yes many of the Philippino traditional instruments have common roots with the Balinese!
Salam Rahayu , lestari seni tabuh Bali ❤
Nice explanation nice video keep going. I hope you will explain about Gamelan Sunda (Degung), Javanese Gamelan.
I would love to, right now I don't have a teacher or know anyone in my city who knows the Sundanese style and owns the instruments. Maybe I can go to Indonesia some day🤞 but so far I haven't had the money to do that yet
Amazing visual!
Warm greetings from Bali
Greetings 🙏 salam dari Chicago
amazing
This is a phd-worth of a video
Thank you sir..for this inspired vidio
Thank you!
This is just TOP NOTCH SIR. THANK YOU 🤠🖖 ♨️
Thanks for the kind comment! Glad you enjoyed!
Dear Augustine, thank you so much for this documentary! I have a question, are there still pieces played from the Bali royal courts? When the music was more slow/refined? then after the 1910 period? Can I find them on TH-cam? Greetings from Holland.
wow this is absolutely amazing u were explained really good tho🤩
Thank you!
Good video im from bali i like your video…thank but how long you make this video??
Two years ❤️