From Michael Upton Sent Wed, Mar 3rd 1999, 01:27
From Michael Upton Sent Wed, Mar 3rd 1999, 01:27
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Marc 3 Poirier wrote: | > plus you can hear the first efforts of tom's gamelan orchestra in two | > of the tracks | What is a gamelan orchestra? An Indonesian percussion orchestra. Lots of bell-like sounds, tuned fairly close to intervals on a tempered scale, but not quite. Gamelan is the traditional dance music of Indonesia. Strangely, I found the feel of Oval's 'Systemisch' a bit similar to some of the slower passages in gamelan stuff... I can't really justify it, except for the rhythms being hard to follow, and the quite harmonically simple, clear tones. Michael ____________________________________________ "His eyes are TV cameras" http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~michael/jj.html