BALINESE GAMELAN II

JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF PERCUSSION

  • Over 30 Instruments
  • Full Tuning Control
  • 34 GB Core Library
  • Kontakt Player NKS
Balinese Gamelan II

THE DEFINITIVE GAMELAN COLLECTION

Soniccouture Balinese Gamelan II features two full gamelan ensembles:

Semaradana Gamelan Ensemble (LSO, London)
Gamelan Batel Ramayana (Toronto)

Over 30 different instruments were recorded in great depth to capture the living, breathing sound & dynamics of gamelan.
Play individual instruments or the whole ensemble at once - complete control over the gamelan sound for experts & newcomers alike.

GAMELAN CULTURE

Balinese Gamelan II

Gamelan Semaradana, LSO London

Gamelan is an ensemble of instruments originating from Indonesia. The majority of Gamelan instruments are percussive, and most of these are bronze. They include xylophone-like metallophones of different sizes and pitch, tuned gong chimes, very large pitched gongs, and an assortment of drums and percussion. There are many types of Gamelan ensembles, but the two dominant types are Javanese and Balinese. Balinese Gamelan has a characteristic 'shimmering' sound which is due to the detuning of paired instruments playing the same musical part.

Although Gamelan music has been around for centuries (there is evidence of instruments existing before 800 AD), it is very much a living music in Indonesia, and is growing in popularity in the west. Styles keep evolving and new Gamelan music is being written all the time. Balinese "Gong Kebyar", a particularly flamboyant style, has dominated much of the century and is probably Bali's most famous export.

Gamelan music is very much about the collective - it has been described as 'a negotiation between musicians'. Many of the musicians play interlocking parts, in which alternate notes are shared between two instruments. This technique enables the ensemble to play incredibly fast passages.

CINEMATIC RESONANCE

The pulsing, resonant tones of Balinese Gamelan can bring unsettling moods to unexpected places.

One of our favourite examples of this is in S4 E3 of Breaking Bad.

Walter White contemplates his secret lab as the gamelan gongs and jegogs throb forbodingly in the background.

 

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NI DISCOVERY SERIES

Also available in a partnership product from Native Instruments + Soniccouture is Balinese Gamelan: Discovery Series.

Featuring a reduced Semaradana gamelan set, it is an ideal introduction to the sound of gamelan.

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KONTAKT PLAYER COMPATIBLE

This is a Kontakt Player instrument. This means that you do not need to own the full version of NI Kontakt to use it. It will run as a plug-in instrument in any VST/AU/RTAS/AAX/WASAPI,compatible host program or DAW eg: Cubase, Logic, Ableton Live, DP, Reaper, Pro-Tools. No extra purchase necessary.

System Requirements:

Windows 7 or higher (latest Service Pack, 32/64 Bit), Intel Core Duo or AMD AthlonTM 64 X2, 4 GB RAM (6 GB RAM recommended)

Mac: OS X 10.9 or higher, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM  

Requires KONTAKT 5 or KONTAKT 5 PLAYER version 5.5 or later  

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