Kreasi Mekanis Mainan – Mixed Ensemble
Work Overview
Instrumentation: Balinese Gamelan
Commission: Queens College, Gamelan Yowana Sari through Queens Council on Arts
Premiere: Dec. 2012 at Queens College, New York; Reading at The Flea Theater, New York, May 15, 2012.
Duration: 8 minutes
Upcoming album forthcoming on Cantaloupe Music
Program Note
Kreasi Mekanik Mainan (2012) is a work that is written for Samara Dana Gamelan Ensemble, commissioned by Queens College through a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. The title translates from Indonesian into ‘Mechanical Toys,’ and describes the section at the beginning of the work – starting slowly and mechanically while gaining momentum, especially with the entrance of the reyong (nipple gongs) in the middle of the section. The work makes use of the seven tones of the samara dana gamelan set, alternating between one scale at the beginning and its complement in a second contrasting section. The entire work shifts between these two sections and ends with a spiky rhythmically charged final cadence.
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