Gamelan Cenik Wayah, CW Ubud Bali, PKB

This Childrens group just won the first prize at The Bali Arts Festival 2005. If you want more informations about this children group, please contact the Leader of Gamelan Cenik Wayah :
I Wayan Sudirana,
email : sudirana@interchange.ubc.ca
Ubud Water Palace, Ubud

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Gamelan
• Gong
• Kebyar
• Bali
• caru
• wara
• PKB

[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.

[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

[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...!

[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!

[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.

[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