In these pieces for a 'chamber grouping' of just three gamelan instruments, I used as the basis for composition a combined scale made up of pelog and slendro...

The machinery of Concertino for Five Instruments operates like the switching on and off of a light. When the light turns on the music is illuminated. When ...

"Two Transcriptions" combines two snapshots from Western music repertoire, transcribed for Javanese gamelan (pelog) - a peasant song and a 16th century canon...

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 S...

Sun Wu Kong "Monkey" is a tribute to mentor and friend Jack Body. Jack invited me to write this piece for his retirement concert "Gong Crazy" during my ter...

This work uses four short passages from Canadian composer and ethnomusicologist, Colin McPhee's famous account of his experiences while living in Bali in the...

The gamelan is a percussion orchestra from Indonesia, made up of gongs, drums, metallophones, wooden xylophones, strings (bowed and plucked), bamboo flute, a...

In Procession I use several unorthodox playing techniques on the gamelan. The tunings of pelog and slendro are combined freely throughout; the piano remain...