Gamelan Tunas Mekar

[wayang]

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[brianb]

Beautiful pictures. I once saw a performance of Gamelan music in Washington. The gracefulness of the music and the people helped melt away my original awkwardness and I was able to float along. I was stone cold sober too. What variety of Gamelan were you performing?

[kiramdear]

Dane,

What a beautiful affair! It must be a great privilege for you to take part in such an offering. I can only imagine how lovely the music was.

[wayang]

Thanks, folks...Brian, the orchestra in those photos is our 'big rig', the gamelan semaradana. We also have a smaller one called a gamelan angklung, which is used in Bali primarily for religious ceremonies. I'm also a member of Catur Eka Santi, a four-piece 'subset' of Tunas Mekar that plays the music of the wayang kulit, or Balinese shadow play.
Here are some pix of our most recent angklung performance on August 16th at the Boulder Asian Festival:

[wayang]

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