Gamelan Plesetan at the UCSC Recital Hall:: May 20th, 2007::
Featuring:
dj saKAna, a.k.a. (DANM MFA no.e Parker) is an electronic musician/composer with 14 years experience organizing and playing live improvised electronic music at muti-media dane/art/music events as part of the SF Bay Area Semi Permanent? Autonomous Zone (SPaz) collective, and independently internationally in Japan, Indonesia and Europe. This performance is part of her DANM MFA thesis work.
Sapto Raharjois an active composer of contemporary gamelan music, working in his home city of Yogyakarta, Java, and internationally. He is currently the visiting director of the UC Riverside Gamelan Ensemble.
Sapto is organizer/project director of the annual Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, an international contemporary gamelan festival sponsored by the Komunitas Gayam 16, of which he is coordinator. Raharjo is also program director and announcer of Geronimo FM's Apresiasi Musik (Music Appreciation); Yogya's contemporary/new music radio show for the past 19 years.
Rene Lysloffis an Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at UC Riverside. He is co-editor of the book, "Music and Technoculture" (2003 Wesleyan Press), a collection of articles exploring issues related to changing technologies and their impact on cultural practices and epistemologies invloving music. He has conducted research on traditional and contemporary arts in Central Java for about twenty years. Lysloff is an active composer and performer of digital music.
A live, improvisational electro-acoustic multi-media gamelan performance, that can best be described as a real-time audio/visual collage with gamelan controlled visual projections using an interface called the Gamelan Lumina.
epicenter 2007:: UC DARNET, UC Riverside:: January 26, 2007::
Video::This performance featured the talents of:
Dj saKAna on Laptop (Gamelan Lumina controlled Jitter and Motion Capture Video),
Sampler, ElectronikBeatbox
Members of the UC Riverside Gamelan Ensemble ::
11th Annual YOGYAKARTA GAMELAN FESTIVAL::Yogyakarta Java, July 8, 2006::
Musik :::Sapto Raharjo on live Javanese Drum, Gongs
Rene T.A. Lysloff on Laptop and Keyboards, dueling Javanese Drum, robotic monkey
DJ saKAna on Laptop (animation and motion capture video), Sampler and ElectronikBeatbox
Vhensa of Yogyakartan New Media Collective
GAMELAN ACROSS NATIONS :: Yogyakarta Java, September 9, 2006 ::
Gayam 16 Gamelan, that featuredButoh by AngelNOVA, South Afrika.
Sapto on Gongs dan Lain Lain
Joko on Gambang
Adzied Dewa on Zither and Gender
Electronic gamelan collage composition sampled, cut and pasted by DJ saKAna
Meeting across the Airwaves :: Online Improv Performance based in Santa Cruz, CA/Riverside, CA/Marseilles, France/Yogyakarta Java, October 7, 2006 ::
In Marseille (left):
From Leda Atomoca Musique:
Marie Demon, Phil Spectrum and technician: Philip
In Yogya: Gayam16 Gamelan and Adzied Dewa, SP Joko
In Californina: saKAna from UCSC and Rene Lysloff from Riverside
SPRING GAMELAN CONCERT::Univeristy of California at Riverside, June 9, 2006 ::
Rene T.A. Lysloff on Laptop and Keyboards, dueling Javanese Drum
Sapto Raharjo on Javanese Drum, Gongs
DJ saKAna on sampler, Electronik Beatbox, and Digital Delay
BLINK::UCSC DIGITAL ART AND NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL::University of California at Santa Cruz, May 16, 2006 ::
Outdoor Performance Installation in a Ring of RedwoodsThe show was a 2 hour improv performance in a 360 degree ring of redwood trees at the UCSC Benjamin Porter College that was netcast to listeners sitting in the comfort of their homes.
DJ saKAna: Installation Design, Audience and Audio Interactive Digital Media Programming and Design, Beatbox, and Sampler
Rene T.A. Lysloff: Laptop and Keyboards
Sapto Raharjo: Sundanese Drum, Gender Keys, Audio Controlled Visual Effects
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