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Square Waves 2.4: Gamelan by SquareWaves

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Artist: Linda Buckley, co-composed with Mel Mercier
From: Buckley is based in Dublin
Track: Telephones and Gongs
Album: New Music From UCC
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Year: 2001
Notes: For Javanese gamelan, She studied Music at University College Cork, and Music and Media Technologies at Trinity College Dublin. She lectures at Trinity College, where she is studying for a doctorate in Composition.

Artist: Suar Agung dari Desa Sankaragung and Sekehe Jegog dari Desa Pendem
From: Negara, on the Western edge of Bali, indonesia
Track: Gopala
Album: Jegog of Negara
Label: King Records
From: Tokyo
Year: 1992
Notes: Jegog is only found in the Negara area because of the giant bamboo needed for building the instruments. This particular song is a dance piece composed in 1980.

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From: Bali, indonesia
Track: Lelambatan Tabuh Pitu “Sembiran”
Album: gamelan Gong Gede of Batur Temple
Label: King Records
From: Tokyo
Year: 1992
Notes: Gong Gede is the core of all gemelan music featuring 64 musicians.

Artist: Sekar Sandat
From: Bangli, Bali, Indonesia
Track: Baris Gede
Album: Gamelan Gong Gede
Label: JVC World Sounds
From: Tokyo
Year: 1991
Notes: This is arecording made at an important festival, the music was made as an accompaniment to dance. Baris literally mans procession. In this performance as many as 70 to 80 male villagers clad in brilliant costumes, each holding a weapon such as a spear or a rifle in one hand, dance in a row within the grounds of the temple, the occasional shouts and exclamations to be heard in various parts of the performance are emitted by the men as they perform battle scenes.

Artist: Darma Santi
From: Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Track: Gesuri
Album: Gamelan Gong Kebyar 2
Label: JVC World Sounds
From: Tokyo
Year: 1993,
Notes: Recorded 1982, at the National Theatre, Tokyo. This gamelan comes from the line of gamelan gambuh, thought to have been created at the beginning of the 16th century, considered to be the parent of all balanese gamelans

Artist: Singapadu Village
From: Bali, Indonesia
Track: Legong Dance
Album: Barong, The Dance Drama of Singapadu Village
Label: JVC World Sounds
From: Tokyo
Year: 1992
Notes: recorded in 1990, this is the second part of the Dance Drama, a movement with 14 parts

Artist: Tirta Sari Ensemble of Peliatan Village
From: Bali
Track: Tarna Pisan
Album: gamelan Semarpegulingan 1
Label: JVC World Sounds
From: Tokyo
Year: 1990
Notes: Recorded in 1985 in Peliatan Village, Bali. This particular type of gamelan, Semarpegulingan, is known as the gamelan of fantasy and meditation, and is characterized by the large quantities of gold contained in the bronze from which the instruments are made. This piece is dance music extolling a young hero. Tarna means youth in Balanese.

Artist:
From: Pliatan, Bali
Track: Tabuh Pisan
Album: Gamelan Semar Pegulingan: Gamelan of the love god
Label: Nonesuch
From: New York
Year: 2003
Notes: originally released in 1972

Artist: Peter Moran
From: Dublin now based in York
Track: Bonang Quartet
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Notes: Bonang Quartet No.1 (2008) [gamelan] 5'
Premiere: Gamelan Sekar Petak, York Late Music Festival, 10-06-08

Bonang Quartet No.2 (2009) [gamelan] 5'
Premiere: Gamelan Sekar Petak, Ergodos Festival, Dublin 18-04-09

Moran was commissioned by Dublin City Council and the Contemporary Music Centre to create and deliver two courses on contemporary music that could be taught in Dublin's inner-city primary schools,
Check out petermoranmusic.com where these tracks and others are available for free download.