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Gamelan Suite: For Darius and Madeline

by joel taylor

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Lancaran Laying Rail and Gending Sigh of Longing 09:02
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Ladrang Laura 07:41
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Sirep Mysterious Clouds 02:35
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4.
Bubaran Daniel 03:56
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" Gamelan Suite: For Darius and Madeline" was composed in 1994 while I was an MFA student at Mills College Center for Contemporary Music. The title refers to the Mills Gamelan, built by Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig, and named in honor of Darius Milhaud and Madeline Milhaud.

The suite starts in the 5-note Slendro tuning for the first two pieces, Lancaran Laying Rail, and Gending Sigh of Longing, then moves to Pelog (a 7-note tuning) in the third piece, Ladrang Laura. In the fourth piece, Sirep Mysterious Clouds, it moves from Pelog, through a section using both Pelog and Slendro simultaneously, to Slendro. The fifth piece, Bubaran Daniel, is in Slendro.

About the tuning of the gamelan - From Balungan Magazine:
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The Mills Gamelan is tuned in just intonation:

Slendro:
(5)8/7(6)7/6(1)9/8(2)8/7(3)7/6/(5)

Pelog:
(1)13/12(2)14/13(3)17/14(4)18/17(5)19/18(6)21/19(7)8/7(1)

Pitch (6) is the same in slendro and pelog, called the "tumbuk" or shared tone. Pitch (5) of pelog is A=440 Hz.
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This album is dedicated to Laura McColm and Daniel Kelley, without whose help the performance would have been a shadow of what it was.
Laura put great effort and time into creating the pesinden (female vocalist) parts for this piece and therefor deserves composing credit, and Daniel Kelley's precise and sensitive drumming kept a group that contained many beginning gamelan players together through some difficult passages.

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released April 2, 2020

This is a recording of a live concert given at Mills College in the spring of 1994. The performers are: Laura McColm -Pesinden (female vocalist) & Bonang Panerus (an array of soprano knobbed gongs); Daniel Kelley - Kendang (2 drums, the kendang and the ketipung, both double headed hand drums); Linda Wegner - Bonang (an array of alto knobbed gongs); Tildy Bayar - Saron ( a trough metallophone) & Kempuls (medium sized hanging gongs); Greg Higgs - Saron ( a trough metallophone); Eiko Espirito Santo - Saron Peking ( a soprano version of the saron); Tom Day - Saron Demung (a tenor version of the saron) & Slentem (a bass metallophone with resonators); Maureen Klier - Kempuls and Saron Demung; Dave Madole - Gong Ageng (the large hanging gong) & Kenong (a tenor array of knobbed gongs used to mark the ends of phrases) & Ketuk (a knobbed gong that has a time keeping function and a sound like its name), and myself on Saron Demung, Slentem, and Suling ( a cane fipple flute).

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joel taylor Quito, Ecuador

Joel Taylor is a composer/improvisor/programmer who works with a wide variety of electronic and acoustic media. He performs on analog synths, computers, keyboards, shakuhachi, suling, flute, and percussion, and has composed concert music for orchestra, gamelan, and various chamber ensembles. ... more

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