Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Call for Works: Gamelan Compilation

I love Gamelan music, but I'm not a 'specialist' on it by any means. However, I have to say that it is one of the most mesmerisingly beautiful types of music that I have heard. We have an ensemble here in Adelaide which plays from time to time, and I always make a point of going out and listening.

I would like to do a compilation of Gamelan music-inspired tracks, and I was wondering if anyone would like to join me.

Your track can be inspired by any type of Gamelan music, but the link between Gamelan music and your track must be obvious to outside parties. The track has to also be connected with chipmusic in some way, although it doesn't have to be "pure" chip music.

I am wanting to keep this compilation limited to about 6 tracks. So expect a quality filter.

The deadline would be two weeks from now, 1 June 2009. The thread for this compilation is here.
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8 comments:

  1. Tristan Louth-Robins5/20/2009 9:42 PM

    I'm down! I think I know what I can do here...

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  2. Sebastian Tomczak5/20/2009 9:55 PM

    To be clear: The track has to also be connected with chipmusic in some way, although it doesn't have to be "pure" chip music.

    But I'm sure you will think of something - there are many, many options and ways that it could relate...

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  3. Tristan Louth-Robins5/21/2009 4:32 PM

    A dilemma: does the red robin foray into chiptune? Hmmmm.

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  4. Sebastian Tomczak5/21/2009 4:34 PM

    Well, the word "chiptune" doesn't mean what it once did, so just chuck a square in there or use a tracker or something... it's pretty open...

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  5. Anonymous5/22/2009 5:01 PM

    If I could think of a way to achieve their tuning systems I'd be down, Pelog or Slendro seem like pretty hard scales to get down on a gameboy considering they don't involve equal scale divisions...

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  6. Sebastian Tomczak5/22/2009 6:15 PM

    Hi anonymous,
    Here is a link on how to change the tuning of LSDJ:

    http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/03/abrasive-on-lsdj-microtuning.html

    Here is a link on how to change the tuning of Nanoloop:

    http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2009/03/18-tet-18-divisions-of-octave-instead.html

    I hope that this will help if you are wanting to achieve different tunings with the GB.

    Cheers,

    Seb

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  7. misoft6/14/2009 12:29 AM

    Oh I miss that one!

    I played Balinese Gamelan for 8 years! I would have like doing a piece inspired by those kotekan,,,

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  8. Sebastian Tomczak6/14/2009 8:12 AM

    Hi misoft!
    You haven't missed the boat yet - there is an extension in place. So if you have something suitable or can make something suitable within a few days, then please go ahead and we would love to have you aboard. :D

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