In this clip the music director of the project, Made Sukanda, performs the primary melody for Tabuh Telu Tabanan on one of the primary melodic instruments in a gamelan gong kebyar orchestra. Note that Made uses only one mallet, called a pangul. His…
In this clip Made rehearses the resident gamelan ensemble at the Yayasan Polosenni School. The video footage focuses on the gongs. The gong instruments define the underlying rhythmic structure of the composition. Tabuh Telu Tabana is organized by the…
In this clip Made Sukanda again performs the primary melody, the polos part. As he plays the melody he gives verbal cues for the large gong, the gong gede. The gong gede defines the beat structure for the composition. This function is similar to the…
In this clip Made Sukanda performs the contrasting melody part, referred to as the sangsih. The polos and Sangsih melodies differ in two important ways. First, these two contrasting melodies form an interlocking rhythm structure. The Polos melody…
In this clip Made performs the polos part and I perform the sangsih. We are using the reverse side of the mallets to reduce the volume and to assist with the recording fidelity. This of course is not the correct method for striking the bars in a…
