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Sunday, July 29
Admission: $7, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8 and 10:30pm
reservations
are recommended
Matt Welch performs Bhima Swarga (Balinese Journey of the Soul
2006) with Ikue Mori* and 6-piece gamelan ensemble. This collaboration
is a modern spin on the Balinese Wayang Kulit, or shadow puppet
theatre. Ikue Mori has added image processing to her unique sound
manipulations to create a brilliant audio/visual performance animating
characters from traditional Balinese paintings. Welch's accompanying
compositions for Balinese gamelan are based on bagpipe laments.
Utilizing a revolutionary new gamelan species called Semara Dana,
Welch is able to take his starting material of excerpts and arrangements
of pibroch, the classical music of the bagpipe and completely
map it onto the pitch spectrum and idiomatic rhythmic, formal
and textural practices of the Balinese gamelan.
- Christine Bard, Zach Layton, Ray Sweeten and Max Gibral follow
with live Microtonal interactions for bass, banjo/guitar, hammered
dulcimer and percussion.
*Ikue joins us for the 8pm show only.
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