Balinese and Javanese gamelan Developing Abroad


Bali Instrument most often made from bronze or bamboo, are organized into ensembles and tuned according to a set of flexibly interpreted standards. Villages may maintain one or several types of gamelan and use each for a ritually predetermined set of occasions.The primary function of music in Bali is to accompany ritual activity, but it is also performed in many recreational contexts .
Bali Music is composed, memorized, and rehearsed at the village meeting hall. When a gamelan accompanies dancers, as it often does, the close connections between movement and sound are brought to life through a complex system of interactive cues and responses. Performance standards are very high, and even with Bali's current and rapidly expanding connection to the rest of the world, gamelan music remains almost wholly unaffected by outside influences. The tradition is still learned and developed with vigor, and it has found an increasingly broad international audience.


DENPASAR- Bali
, traditional musical instruments of the gamelan good comes daru Bali, Java, Sunda mapun growing rapidly overseas, primarily in the United States, Japan, UK, Australia and Europe.
"In the United States grew at least 400 gamelan groups and the UK 100 group," said Professor of Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI), Prof. Dr Made Bandem, MA when he appeared as the keynote speaker at the workshop Bali Art Festival (PKB) to 31 in Denpasar, monday.
He who for the last two years teaching at a number of Balinese gamelan art college in the United States were added, Balinese gamelan, Javanese and Sundanese can dikolaborasikan with music from several countries around the world.
Many artists from various countries have done that, thanks to the existing strengths of the Balinese gamelan, as well as Javanese and Sundanese gamelan.
Balinese gamelan include a drum, gong, syrup, molasses and capable as liaison flute melodies with music from various countries.
Through the collaboration of two artistic cultivation of different backgrounds can come together in a frame of harmony, he said.
Collaboration is becoming increasingly popular art in facing the global era, because it is able to provide benefits, namely arts and culture to enrich the activities of two or more elements combined arts.
Of each other have in common and the agreement to marry elements of different art backgrounds. Collaboration generally tilled by reliable and established artists, whose work can provide a positive influence on the development of cultural arts in the future.
Development of arts groups that explore percussion music and dance of Bali, Javanese and Sundanese positive impact especially imaging Bali and Indonesia in the international world.
In addition to imaging and supports Indonesia tourism promotion, as well as economic impact, because the foreign arts groups is always ordered a gamelan into the country, said Made Bandem.

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