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Artist
Dewa Alit
9+ albums
composerinstrumentalAsiantraditionalgamelan
about
Contemporary Balinese composer Dewa Alit and his ensemble Gamelan Salukat is a major force in contemporary Indonesian music, presenting Alit's work extensively throughout Asia, Europe and North America and collaborating with renowned ensembles such as Bang On A Can and Ensemble Modern. Involved in the composition and performance of works for Gamelan ensemble since he was a teenager, in 2007 he founded Gamelan Salukat, a 25 member ensemble that perform on instruments specially built to Alit’s designs, using a unique 11-note scale. The music of Gamelan Salukat is grounded in the tradition of Balinese Gamelan; however, Alit approaches this tradition not as something static, but as a set of concepts and principles that can be used to create something radically new. For many listeners, Genetic will inhabit precisely this space between the familiar and the invigoratingly unheard, as it takes the stop-start dynamics, unison melodies, and much of the instrumentation familiar from traditional Balinese Gamelan and puts them in the service of rhythmic, harmonic, and timbral experimentation, crafting a work possessed by at once by mysterious grandeur and a joyous volatility. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
