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Daniel’s invitation to other gamelan ensembles—world-wide

I’m taking the occasion of my 73rd birthday year (2009) to revisit and celebrate all my music. I want to invite the world-wide gamelan community to join me in this, especially in experiencing my gamelan repertoire. It can be done in many ways. Most appealing to me, would be for me to travel to other gamelan groups in the world to help realize performances of my music and ideas for gamelan. If there were also a community interested in other genres of my work in the same locale, so much the better! It’s the nature of gamelan to be a social art form, and in meeting others and working in music, I would feel most celebrated, and most celebratory! I would also feel very useful in helping other communities to learn, and learn about the repertoire of my ensemble, Gamelan Son of Lion. And as a representative of the “downtown” music world of New York, I would be able to relate and bring to others the vibrancy and special appeal its music and music culture.

As a composer, I’m now looking back on my work, as well as forward to the new pieces I’m composing. Since I joined Gamelan Son of Lion in the mid-‘70’s, I’ve composed some twenty-five pieces for gamelan, inspired by GSOL, and performed by them. Though I want to share all my music with others—music in most genres and instrumentations, my gamelan music occupies a special place. Gamelan Son of Lion is not like other gamelan groups. We have always encouraged the experimental, the cross-cultural, and have achieved a stylistic variety which I have never experienced in any other new music ensemble—the result of the various member’s creative work over decades. My pieces also have a wide stylistic variety. I hope that makes them attractive to a large number of musicians and listeners. Through these links you can peruse my scores and descriptions, and then coming back to my home page, you can find recordings in the MP3 section. There will be more scores and recordings put up as the year progresses. And I’d encourage anyone interested to write me for materials that might not yet be posted .

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