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Rona e te Marama was written for a collaboration between dancer Didik Nini Thowok, and Gamelans Taniwha Jaya and Padhang Moncar. In the traditional Maori Story, Rona goes out one night to fetch water. As she walks through the bush the moon disappears behind a cloud in the darkness Rona trips over a tree root. She curses the moon for making her fall. In retaliation the moon tries to pull Rona up into the sky. Rona grabs hold of a small shrub but the moon is too strong for her. Ever since, the story goes, if you look at the full moon you can see Rona there, still clutching the shrub.

The unusual combination of Balinese and Javanese gamelan in this piece contrasts the different tuning systems which are generally thought to be incompatible.

Gareth Farr

• Now I Know - New Music for Gamelan and Winds 

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Seasons is a show produced by Capital E’s National Theatre for Children. It follows the seasons of the year from winter to autumn and explores, with lively humour, the sounds, and the moods of the weather, of night and day, the energy of spring and the tiredness of autumn, the life cycle of the small creatures, and the interaction between humans and these small creatures.

• Pattrick: Songs for Seasons; computer-set 

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• Laughton Pattrick: Songs for Seasons  Year: 2000 

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