| Item Description: | For violin and gamelan in just intonation.
These new compositions marry virtuouso violin and the radiant, bell-like tones of the Javanese gamelan orchestra, combining minimalist polyrhythms, lyrical melodies, and propulsive percussion. Violinist Susan Jensen is a virtuouso proponent of new music and has performed chamber music, concertos, film scores, and other works throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. The HMC American Gamelan uses Javanese instruments tuned to pure, just intonation versions of traditional scales to create new, non-traditional sonorities. Bill Alves has been composing for and performing with gamelan since a 1993-94 Fulbright fellowship in Indonesia. |
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| Participant or Performer: | Susan Jensen, violin ; The HMC American Gamelan (Bill Alves, Sun Hwi Bang, John Choi, Anne Clark, Mark Ellis, Andrew Ho, Greg Jackson, Mark Nelson, Rizorkestra, John Robinson, Storey Sheinberg, Julie Simon, Paul Steinberg, Carling Sugarman, Jonathan Williams, Darryl Yong). |
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