Gamelan Cenik Wayah, CW Ubud Bali, PKB

[agunghere]

this video reminds me 7 years ago, I was a flute player who sat in the front position!

[crookedmelody1]

This music is incredible. I have not heard anything like this before. Fantastic!!

[donluigi42]

Saya suka sekali kain ini musika.

[keppiezbt]

I wonder if I would've heard a similar audience at the Balinese dance performance if I hadn't been surrounded by tourists ;).

[MustNotRead]

wah, nice. ive never heard this style of mucic before. i read a research paper that said the unusual proportion of high frequencies found in gamelan music enhanced brain activity. :) interesting.

[WimGrundy]

wow! Hammer Time!

[SethP666]

for some strange reason the beginning reminded me of the old classic pc game LOOM

[widyanaajus]

this is great peforment

[Ivangoven]

im not balinesse,or live in indonesia,but the Bali traditional music and culture make me want to know more,hope one day i can watch and listen Balinesse people playing the music live,Bali!one day i will visit you.

[traveler313]

I'm Balinese, and playing gamelan. I think it will be better if competition is only for the young and kids. For senior player it's better to do some kind of exhibition like in the jazz world, no competition no ego boosting. Cheers and jeers for the young and silent appreciation for the mature artists. Imagine! enjoying those ethereally beautiful sound in silent...

[tempohyeah]

This shit is wicked

[TheMrOye]

Wow !! Fantastic !!! Love it !! thank you so much for the video !! :)

[tera1320]

Great Song!

tera1320 cyberpunk  extrodinaire!!!

[tagolholiz]

ndak ada gamelan baleganjur tolong diisi ya

[classicallady]

I loved the time I spent there...AWSOME!

[archimech1138]

Saya mencintai gamelan, khususnya di Bali. Pos dan anak baik mempunyai bunyi luar biasa. Menyimpan mengirimkan lebih banyak. Indonesia bagus.

[DmariusX]

at 1.32 hat the left top is a hakenkreuz ^^

[SiKedek]

Oh dear, not another one...

Just read my and chandanatha's previous comments, please.

[cazztovv]

....music is emotion, so you CANNOT judge... and remember: each culture expresses emotion in his way. DO NOT JUDGE. (are you american? i think yes)

[magamargot]

I think there is a misunderstanding here...I really didn't want to judge anyone...I had only noticed that the audience was noisy and I just thought that this beatiful music could have needed a silent audience...I'm not american, I hope I didn't bother any balinese with my comment!

[n8tehgr8]

lol you just judged Americans by assuming he was American. Nice hypocrisy.

[cutefidgety]

hey, the chinese culture also encourages cheering on the part of the audience when a particularly difficult part is performed =]

[PeterVilla21]

Weirdest.Post.Ever

[lostamastasean]

u re stone

do weed with a singing bowl for meditation

[Shagalagasheed]

I'm just now gettin' into Gamelan. And I find peace in it. Good shat!

[lecehlah]

Comelnya budak-budak ni main gamelan. Penuh perasaan dengan lenggok kepala nya....Suka saya tengok.

[awiewong]

amazing performences... i like it... it very well... congratulation...

[sasmanwayne]

SiKedek is right but wrong. Yes, Gamelan musicians like to have feedback and yes they would hate a silent audience. HOWEVER, when they perform in competitions and to their own people, the response is appropriate and relates to what they are hearing. This audience would whoop and holler is someone came out and made farting sounds. There is no understanding or discernment in their response. The Audience noise is just for their own amusement and to impress their friends, not to show understanding.

[SiKedek]

Understandably, there may be some gamelan musicians who might be bothered to a certain extent. However, according to Wayne Vitale in his CD featuring Pak Windha's works, the players must "maintain a high _mental_ (attitude) in the face of screaming and sometimes malicious spectators". In other words, if a musician is so freaked out by this charged atmosphere, it's better for him/her to quit. So it's not the most ideal environment - but it's there anyway. They just have to deal with it.

[chandanatha]

You know, that is the fact how the Balinese audiences are. We, Balinese, wasn't bothered with all of that. Both of you are right!! Balinese audience just loves to express their impression directly when there are something good or bad that are going on in the stage. Especially in the Gong Kebyar Competition.

[chandanatha]

However, sometimes there are lots of audience who doesn't know about music at all, comes there to watch and gives inappropriate responses to what are going on. Those are audiences who doesn't have understanding to the arts.

Regards,

I Wayan Sudirana

[sasmanwayne]

I lived in Bali for 5 years. Do you know what the musicians think of the morons watching this performance? Can you imagine? The Balinese are tolerant, fun loving and friendly, but even they can't understand why people would pay money and devote their time to go to a concert then make monkey noises and squeals. There is a Balinese expression that equates to 'take the money and run'. When I am in Bali I am ashamed by westerners who behave like this. Oh and before anyone comments, I HAVE A LIFE!

[VladtheEmailer]

Hahaha! Excellent! And know we know where our modern day classical composers stole their ideas! It's like a rock concert from another world! Luv it!

[PaoloLegnetti]

Great music, bad audience. Why people to shut the fck up and listen???

[SiKedek]

Did you even bother to look at my response to "hexachordal"?

"No, you misunderstand - any traditional gamelan performance worth its salt will have audience outbursts like this, especially in a gamelan competition situation. That way, you know the audience is paying attention. A silent audience is definitely NOT DESIRED in Bali! And a Balinese audience will not reserve any judgment"

In other words, Balinese gamelans like this noise from the audience.

[greengtrs]

It's a concert...not a studio recording! As a musician or any kind of performer, you feed off that energy...

[Gladys973]

COol. it really reflects the culture(:

[vanillabest]

gamelan music nice one i just learn this gamelan music quite nice to listen fun!:D

[inricheetos]

What is up with that swastica, this anti-semitism WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

[chandanatha]

Did you know what's the different between Hindu's Swastika and the one that Hitler had been use????

You should learn about it first before you give your comment about it! (in fact that your spelling is wrong too)

However, this performance is not related to that!!!

[pjcbellora]

let's help out this fellow over here... the Hindu Swastika (with a K) denotes prosperity and goodwill. and if you are keen in enough in observing, you should have noticed Hitler's swastika is facing the opposite direction!

[chandanatha]

Thanks pjcbellora...!

[SiKedek]

The swastika is an extremely old auspicious symbol, long before its reappropriation by the Nazis.

In East Asia, one can see it in a particular lattice-like pattern in China, Japan, Korea, and anywhere within strong Sinitic (i.e. Chinese) influence - this was brought along with Buddhism. I've also seen this in on some headdresses from a few Native American groups.

[SiKedek]

So, are you going to oversee the public censure of Bali and Balinese culture? Cultural suppression because of perceived cross-cultural misunderstanding? Yeah, that will go over really well...

[TomBandfield]

inricheetos: So, you're going to report this video to those groups, despite the fact that people have already told you that the hindu swastika (which came first by the way) is completely different to the nazi one, and is in no way anti semitic. By the way, you do realise that everyone else already knew this, right? Good luck with that.

[kadeck]

mantep puniki vidione. salah kenal chandanata, tiang anak bali ring singapore, namun lacur ten bise megamelan..

[gregor133]

This some great music! To paraphrase the Beatles in "Let It Be": "Phillip Glass ain't got nothing on this figure..." You got it all here. Time changes, dissonance, dynamics, a non-twelve step octave and repetition--and it's all traditional folk music played and directed by real people. To us Amero-European composers using synthesizers, this is what we call progressive or experimental. In a real since, we're just stealing from our past.

[DDR1024]

wow,ur analysis seems little bit though for me. But, i enjoy the music.

[inthefade]

I can't get enough of this video.

[quorumangelorum]

inthefade: are you a QOTSA/Gamelan fan too? Thought I was the only one!!

Posters: Thank you SO much for this! I always get all emotional listening to Gamelan, I'm not sure why, my guess is that it is beautiful and familiar to my soul on a subconscious level.

And these children are awesome cool -- catch the kids in one row spinning their little hammer things between parts. Reminds me of the horn section in "The Blues Brothers."

[Nataraja13]

WOW!!!

BRILLIANT!!!

[pu263092]

gaya neh.........

cenik wayak....bon tut neh....hehehehehe

[moshimoshi333]

I Love Love Gamelan. I Love the fact it's tuned in quarter tones and not the usual western chromatic system(meaning we've got C-C# for example, & they've got an extra note in between) Whats the differemce between Balinese Gamelan and Javanese Gamelan?

[chandanatha]

Well, simply speaking: Balinese Gamelan is fast and Javanese gamelan is slow. But, is a lot more than that, if we want to distinguish them.

[moshimoshi333]

Cheers mate! I played Gamelan once, but my timing was terrible.hehe^^I'd love to own a whole Orchestra oneday!! Thanks for uploading your vids, much appreciated.

[moshimoshi333]

Bali style of playing is my favourite!

[hexachordal]

It really annoys me how you can hear all these people in the background going 'WOOO YEAH! CLAP CLAP CLAPPITY CLAP!' at EVERY OPPORTUNITY. Why don't they just shut up and respect the gamelan tradition in the way it's meant to be appreciated... in silence?

[SiKedek]

No, you misunderstand - any traditional gamelan performance worth its salt will have audience outbursts like this, especially in a gamelan competition situation. That way, you know the audience is paying attention. A silent audience is definitely NOT DESIRED in Bali! And a Balinese audience will not reserve any judgment - if you're considered low quality, they'll be glad to criticize, laugh, holler, or jeer. It's just the name of the game in Bali...

[SiKedek]

Just think of this like your average sporting event - with music groups as the competing teams.

[hexachordal]

oh goodness. I got completely the wrong end of the stick :P Thanks for taking the time to correct me!

[SiKedek]

If you initially found the noisy audience annoying, a typical Balinese temple ceremony will shock you. In the same space, there may be as many as five or six ensembles playing at the same time - different pieces, different timbres, not to mention different tunings. A cacophonous situation for sure, but highly desired because the Balinese love a festive situation that is rame, or "lively, busy". Its antonym, sepi "silent, quiet", is an almost depressing situation.

[3tristan]

I like the music on Bali and played it often there but I don't like this "show".

[yesloow]

By the way, if you are interested in hearing more of Alit's compositions, check out the recorded work of the Balinese gamelan "Cudamani". Alit and his brothers founded that group and built it into one of the most innovative gamelans in Bali today. The have done international tours, so keep an eye out for Cudamani. Alit has also worked with gamelan's in Vancouver, B.C., and Boston, MA.

[yesloow]

The composer of this piece is I Dewa Ketut Alit, one of the great young composers in Bali. He originally composed this piece for Angklung, but they would not allow it in such an arrangement for the competition in the Bali Arts Festival. So he re-arranged it for Gong Kebyar. This is the performance during the Bali Arts festival, summer 2005 and the group is the childrens group from the region (state/province) of Gianyar, Bali.

[950704]

babat bodoh

[KetutErawati]

sakam semeton bali ring dije ye megenah tiang ketut uli karangasem dese jasri mangkin ring belanda

[kokulaa]

brilliant vid.. cant wait to visit the beutiful place again...

[Semara1]

Great tunes!!!!! Thanks for aploading it.

[fidokalman]

Ethereal! Like a well-wound clock mechanism. Magnificent coordination and artistry. Great Production.

[AzamBoi]

Muzik yang terindah di dunia. I'm proud to be Asian.

[peiYeez]

Interesting.....My goosebumps up when listen to it....Get inspired....Tat was good....

[psrolip]

hillarious

[gudeg55781]

salam dari orang yogyakarta yang tinggal di los angeles. bagus gamelannya. regenrasi yang baik sekali. di yogya sendiri sudah jarang anak kecil main gamelan. bravo.

[uno15234]

Perhaps the favorite of my youtube favorits! Thanks a lot Chandanatha!

[cokwira]

tiang mangkin ring boston nike chandanatha...tolong sampaikan sareng cok wah..wenten salam sakeng cok wira..tiang semetone cok wah nike..seneng banget udah bisa liat penampilan gambelan cenik wayah..malih bendan balik ke bali chandanatha??salam sareng cok wah n sukses n terus berkarya gambelan cenik wayah..sukses cw,,,sukseme

[cokwira]

sukses selalu n terus berkarya cenik wayah...thank uploadnya chandanatha..salam dari tiang di rantauan n seneng banget udagh bisa liat penampilan cenik wayah..matur sukseme jung wah di puri saraswati sebagai pembina dan membetuk gamelan cenik wayah ..salam untuk tukang ugalnya..sukses cenik wayah..cw...sukseme...cokwira.­.di rantauan

[chandanatha]

Cok Wira, ring dije niki mangkin?

tiang mangkin ring Vancouver, Canada.

salam kenal dari tiang (tiang assistantnya Cok Wah)

[yanikjw]

ma kasih... ada tetangga saya penabuhnya..., thanks a lot..

[ballywood2006]

what a show. these is kids are amazing....