Sound Tracker - Gamelan (Indonesia)
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange users link it as a concrete example of Balinese gamelan when discussing paired tuning and beating, non-Western scale systems, and polyphony in other cultures.
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What it is
A roughly nine-minute performance video from Genelec's Sound Tracker series featuring Gamelan Semara Ratih of Ubud, Bali, playing the classic Balinese instrumental piece Manuk Anguci by I Nyoman Senen. It includes dance and was directed by Anak Agung Gede Anom Putra.
What people said
Cites Spockahontas · 2019-01 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Do all songs have to be in a major or minor scale? Can a song have random notes that don't belong to any major or minor scale?”
Most of the answers seem to imply that 'keys' are central to music. There are also some conflicting definitions involved - Bach's famous C-major Prelude has sharps and flats everywhere, but most musicians would say that the piece is definitely in C-major, with some "accidentals" thrown in. Most music derived from European cultures works this way, with a central key departed from by harmonies or accidentals to create tension, which then is released by returning to some simple harmony based on that key. But there are other kinds of scales, in, e.g., Iranian or Chinese music; other kinds of criteria for creating satisfying music, in, say, Indonesian gamelan or Indian raga music; and even just d
Cites Todd Wilcox · 2020-09 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “What is it that makes music from different cultures/regions sound different?”
If this isn't polyphonic starting around 1:35, then we have to agree to disagree on what "polyphony" is: [this video]
Cites piiperi Reinstate Monica · 2023-11 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Were there any automatic timekeeping devices prior to the metronome used for setting and maintaining tempo (BPM) and pulse?”
How about [LINK] _"Balinese gamelan instruments are built in pairs that are tuned slightly apart to produce interference beats, ideally at a consistent speed for all pairs of notes in all registers."_ Video: [this video]