Bali's Amazing, Interlocking Gamelan Music - feat. Nata Swara & KOBRA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 มิ.ย. 2024
- Bali's many genres of gamelan music push the boundaries of group virtuosity. (TH-cam won't let me turn off ads until I have 3,000 hours of views, and I don't get any of the money either, sorry.) CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
2:53 - Instrument: The Gangsa
4:05 - Interlocking Patterns
7:37 - All About That Bass: Gong Cycles
9:58 - Ombak: Tuning Instruments Out of Phase
11:32 - Balinese Group Nata Swara Shredding
14:00 - Rare Angon (KOBRA) Performing on their 7-Tone Semaradana
16:25 - Credits and Thanks
Using animations to illustrate some of their complex interlocking patterns, this video focuses on the genre known as Gamelan Gong Kebyar, with excerpts from the groups Sanggar Nata Swara and Komunitas Budaya Rare Angon (KOBRA).
EDIT REGARDING THE WORD "KEMPLI":
I wrongly used the term "kempli" in this video. In a conversation with my friend I Putu Arya Deva Suryanegara, it was explained to me that KAJAR is the correct term, not KEMPLI, although kempli is prominent in Western literature. Kajar is the small muted gong providing short, regular punctuations to the beat. In contrast, kempli is a variation using a muted gong for "offbeats" only.
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Banyak jenis gamelan Bali mendorong batas-batas kemampuan musik.
Video ini menggunakan animasi supaya menjelaskan kotekan Gong Kebyar, dengan rekaman dari Sanggar Nata Swara dan Komunitas Budaya Rare Angon (KOBRA).
SUNTING TENTANG KATA "KEMPLI":
Saya bilang "kempli" di video ini, tapi itu salah. Di buku-buku Amerika, "kempli" adalah umum, tapi teman saya I Putri Deva Surynegara mengajar saya bahwa kajar adalah kata yang lebih baik, dan "kempli" adalah berbeda.
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Video, script, narration, editing, and animations by Augustine Esterhammer-Fic
A big thank you to / Terima kasih banyak:
Sanggar Nata Swara
/ sanggarnataswara
Komunitas Budaya Rare Angon
/ komunitas_budaya_rare_...
Septana Jagaraga
• Video
Pak I Gusti Ngurah Kertayuda & Indonesian Dance of Illinois
for the use of instruments, samples, support and knowledge
Pak I Dewa Berata of Gamelan Çudamani
for information on older footage
Stephen Malinowski
for development of Music Animation Machine software:
www.musanim.com/Player/
YIP Chi Lap [BETA]
for allowing me to adapt instrument icons from his program:
gamelan.emacsian.com/Home.html
Oscar Smith
for introducing me to both of the groups featured in this video:
/ @oscarmsmithmusic
Arya Deva Suryanegara
for consultation on Balinese translation and pronunciation:
/ @aryadeva95
And for always being available for input and advice:
Nyoman Usadhi (Mang Gus), Michael Tenzer, and Wayne Vitale.
Patreon for supporting future episodes and projects:
www.patreon.com/esterhammerfic
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Music notes / catatan musik:
Hita Stuti composed by I Putu Adi Septa Suweca Putra
Kebyar Ding composed by I Madé Regog
Jaya Semara composed by I Wayan Beratha
Teruna Jaya composed by I Gede Manik & Pan Wandres
Kebyar Perak composed by I Wayan Gandera
Photos from Colin McPhee's Music in Bali
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Note on terminology: Bali's musical terms are regionally diverse, and while I don't want to show favoritism toward any specific set of terms, the video already contains a lot of vocabulary for newcomers. For clarity, I deferred to the terms used in Michael Tenzer's book, Gamelan Gong Kebyar (2000), because they seem to have generally neutral application in Bali.
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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
15:14 man this actually hurts my ears but WHAT A AMAZING, PERFECT GAMELAN PERFORMANCE!!!! I listen to this also
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.
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👍
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!
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!
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
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!
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!
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 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. 🙏
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
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!
This is so well done! Luar biasa!!
Amazing! Thank you!
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!!
Thank you so much
Amazing visual!
Impressive description, proud to be Balinese and able to playing gamelan
Thank you!
amazing
Vielen Dank für Ihre video ❤
well done!
Just wow❤
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 🙏
great explanation, very informative, thank you very much ❤
What a beautiful thing you have created. Instructive and so helpful. Thank you for this wonderful labour of love.
This video deserve more view
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.
Al the color graphics in the beginning. Pure art!!
This was extremely enlightening!
Thank you!
Awesome video, thanks!
Thank you!
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
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! ❤️
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
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
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
🙏
Good...and detail...
🙏🙏🙏
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
Salam Rahayu , lestari seni tabuh Bali ❤
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"..
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!
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!
Thanks for your appreciation,good luck my friend 👍👍👍
Thank you for your support!
Nice editing vid
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
Extraordinary
Warm greetings from Bali
Greetings 🙏 salam dari Chicago
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. great job!
Thanks for the supportive comment! I appreciate it
Please make more videos like this.
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.
Sangat suka Gamelan Bali.
Saat santai sering dengar Gamelan Bali.
Aku setuju, Gambelan Bali khusus
❤beautiful
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
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.
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!
Terima kasih untuk ulasan yang sangat bagus. Ini luar biasa.
Terimakasih banyak!
Ini bagus sekali, Augustine! Keren!
Terima kasih banyak Kunto!
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.
suksema terimakasih thank you🙏🙏
Suksma teman 🙏 thank you so much for sharing your music, it's an honor to present it here...
terima kasih telah berbagi musik kalian, suatu kehormatan memiliki kalian di 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!
Thank you for making one of the best videos I've ever seen on youtube! I feel like this video was made specifically for me
Thanks so much! If you enjoyed it you might like my newer video about transcribing a complete piece to midi:
th-cam.com/video/Q9u6jXm4qLE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=J0wRKbLEmTooBQ5z
@@esterhammerfic as soon as I watched this 3 times, I checked out your other videos. I'm a huge fan of your work
Thank you for your hard work and appreciation in making this Augustine; as a Balinese, I really appreciate this work.
This is the first time I have seen a video that breaks down Balinese gamelan. As a Balinese, hearing gamelan has become a habit. Every time I hear Balinese gamelan, there is a magical sensation that cannot be explained. Maybe most people take it for granted when hearing this music. video I hope a lot of people can appreciate it. more gamelan music from Bali
Thank you! Ever since I began learning Balinese gamelan (first gamelan anklung and then gong kebyar), I couldn't believe how amazing the music is.
I think people have a hard time understanding that because it's so intricate, and I hope this video helps more people fall in love with gamelan and with Indonesian arts and cultures.
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
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!
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 🙂
Wow, bagus. Saya menemukan channel ini, saya belajar dari anda. Terima kasih.
Terimakasih banyak! Saya senang mendengar bahwa anda suka video-videoku, dan saya sedang membuat lebih banyak!
Amazing
Thank you!
thx!!!
Nice 🙏👏
Thank you 🙏
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!
wow this is absolutely amazing u were explained really good tho🤩
Thank you!
Wow thank you ❤
Thank you for watching!
I learned Sundanese gamelan in school. This video is really interesting and it gave me a better understanding of Balinese gamelan. It's fascinating to see how different it is from the Sundanese style. The graphics and animations in the video were great. I hope you make more videos about Sundanese gamelan in the future ❤ Rahayu🙏
Sundanese style is beautiful and has such a lively feel. The music makes you want to dance in a different way from Balinese music. I unfortunately don't know someone who teaches Sundanese gamelan (my teacher is Balinese), or owns a set of instruments, but I would love to travel somewhere to study it too someday.
@@esterhammerfic Coba Tuan datang ke kampung seni Giriharja. Disana banyak sekali seniman seniman gamelan Sunda. Bisa juga datang ke ISBI (Institute of art in Bandung)
I learn balinese gambelan and it is amazing
Yeah, it's very special music
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
Good video im from bali i like your video…thank but how long you make this video??
Two years ❤️
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
👍🏼🙏🏽
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i don't 7nderstand music...but i like your video
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
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 🙏🙏
oh this is exceedingly high effort. i'm no music guy, just indonesian, but great work!
also just wanna mention Sekar Ginotan from the (perhaps unfortunately named) legendary 1977 album Guruh Gipsy
i feel like that track, which i absolutely love, sounds way different from any gamelan i've heard. definitely sounds different from the piece(s?) titled "Sekar Ginotan" that i can find online. i wonder what the deal with that is
@@blazerlazer55 Interesting, I've never heard that album, but I would love to hear more gamelan fusion! It seems like it's not available for streaming, so I'll have to search around for a CD somewhere.
Thanks for the comment!
how do you analyze in this detail❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for the comment! I spent a long time learning and putting work into this video, a lot of knowledge comes from my teacher Pak Ngurah Kertayuda and from reading, for example Michael Tenzer's book Gamelan Gong Kebyar.
Try "rindik" bro 🏵️
I've played Gamelan rindik twice, they're cool!
the only other gamelan that similar and have an interlocking like Balinese Gambelan is Gamelan Banyuwangi (East Java), Banyuwangi is near by and closest to Bali, so they have the similar interlocking, and have a similar sound like Bali, even they played it like "Kebyar style", the different is, Banyuwangi usually use Laras Slendro (Pentatonic) Scale, while Bali usually use Pelog Scale (Heptatonic), the Hybrid of both gamelan in Banyuwangi is called "Gamelan Janger"
Example:
1. Full Gamelan Banyuwangi: th-cam.com/video/wAX8kutDsKs/w-d-xo.html
2. Gamelan Banyuwangi's Interlocking: th-cam.com/video/6jJX6H5M1_U/w-d-xo.html
3. Interlocking on the Saron/Gangsa Banyuwangi: th-cam.com/video/bvUw28B0szk/w-d-xo.html
4. Gamelan Janger in Banyuwangi: th-cam.com/video/0yvzzs95fLs/w-d-xo.html
Wow thank you for this information, I had never heard of gamelan Banyuwangi! I'm excited to listen to these links
@@esterhammerficyep, Gamelan Banyuwangi is underrated af, I love them both, especially the bamboo xylophone called Rindik in Bali and Angklung in Banyuwangi, both shaped and sound very similar
Blambangan was once part of Kingdom of GelGel and later kingdom of badung. I believe its because balinese influence, just like lombok the neighboring island of bali has strong balinese influence since it was under the kingdom of karangasem and later karangasem royals make another palace in lombok and force lombok to use balinese tradition and culture
cool information btw
thank you soooo much for this wonderful work!!!
I kept thinking about the lines of convergent evolution, how peoples without any contact come to more or less the same practices and expressions. In the South American highlands ("altiplano") , the technique of the "sikuris" is well known, where the zampoñas (pan pipes) divide the musical scale, similarly, into two interlocked sections ("arka" - "ira")
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th-cam.com/video/z-tWeN5IF8E/w-d-xo.html
I had no idea, thank you for this comment! I was recently visiting a friend in Ecuador, and while I love South American music, most of what I hear in the internet is much more modern music. Folk traditions are harder to find for someone starting off.
I'm excited to check out the video you sent!
@@esterhammerfic It's true, here the European colonization was much "more recent" (500 years), and the cultural/musical practices are always moving, evolving.
Regarding the zampoñas (there are a lot of different names and sizes), at least in the alitplano of Peru/Bolivia, and part of Chile and Argentina, the practice of "arka-ira" seems to be common, that influences the construction of the instruments. It is very noticeable in the lower range (the so-called "toyos") given the demand for air, in addition to their weight and size. Longer instruments typically only have a few tubes.
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Colonization had an enormous influence, and religious syncretism has always been a strong engine of rites and traditions. Certainly, the religious rituals and the musical manifestations around them have grown (number of pilgrims/musicians/dancers) and have gradually incorporated many things from "western" culture. Despite having a strong local identity, the altiplano is a melting pot of practices and cultures.
Here two more traditional registers, surely they are useful to understand the cultural context (obviously the first video is a "stylized" version, the group is part of the music academy of a local university).
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(intro text in spanish) here you can listen interlocked notes
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Dancers in a religious festivity in Chile, town of La Tirana
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Sorry for the long text hahahaha hope you enjoy discovering new music, and thanks again !!!
These videos are amazing, I've never seen or heard anything like this style of music. Hearing things like this always makes me wonder what the music would sound and "feel" like if I could grow up knowing nothing else, rather than experience it as an outsider with different musics informing my experiences.