Past Performances
GAMELAN PLESETAN in 2008
Gamelan Plesetan featured at the 2008 University of California Institute for Research in the Arts
(UCIRA) Conference
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November 7th performance with directors of UC Riverside Improvisation and Gamelan Ensembles along with members of the UCR Gamelan Club.
From left: Aaron Singer on Saron, Professor Rene Lysloff on Javanese Drum, Julian Lozos on Kenong and Ketuk, Genie Yoo on Javanese Drum, and no.e on Drum Machine and Soundscapes. Not pictured is Renee Coloumbe on Prepared Piano. Photo by Josh Brown.
Gamelan Plesetan performance at the
(sorry, the English translation of this page is absolutely TERRIBLE!)
GAMELAN PLESETAN in 2007
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 Raharjo, Director, Gayam 16 Gamelan Community
is 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 Lysloff, Director, UCR Gamelan Ensemble
is 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::
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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 ::
Tristan Faulk-Webster (gong and kempul) :: Aaron Singer (saron) :: Jin Hee Yoo (Javanese drum)
GAMELAN PLESETAN in 2006:
Meeting across the Airwaves :: Online Improv Performance based in Santa Cruz, CA/Riverside, CA/Marseilles, France/Yogyakarta Java, October 7, 2006 ::
The concert celebrated the 250th anniversary of Yogyakarta City
In Marseille (left):
From Leda Atomoca Musique:
Marie Demon, Phil Spectrum, Sapto Raharjo and technician: Philip
In Yogya: Gayam16 Gamelan and Adzied Dewa, SP Joko
In Californina: saKAna from UCSC and Rene Lysloff from UC Riverside
GAMELAN ACROSS NATIONS :: Yogyakarta Java, September 9, 2006 ::
A collaboration between Dj saKAna and members of Gayam 16 Gamelan, that featured
Butoh by AngelNOVA, South Afrika.
Sapto on Gongs dan Lain Lain
Joko on Gambang
Adzied Dewa on Zither and Gender
Hear our Electronic gamelan collage composition sampled, cut and pasted by DJ saKAna
11th Annual YOGYAKARTA GAMELAN FESTIVAL::Yogyakarta Java, July 8, 2006::
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Hear Musik :::
- featuring
- 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
SPRING GAMELAN CONCERT::Univeristy of California at Riverside, June 9, 2006 ::
- Performance featuring:
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 ::
Hear Outdoor Performance Installation in a Ring of Redwoods
The 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
