Work
Jangeran
for orchestra and gamelan
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About
Jangeran seeks to bridge the musical gap between East and West: a Balinese melody is appropriated by the Western orchestra and is recast in a range of Western contexts. At various points a gamelan ensemble, embedded in the Western orchestra, emerges and reasserts ownership of the musical source materials while at other times the two bodies combine to explore new and strange syntheses of culture, movement and soundworlds.
Jangeran was commissioned and premiered by the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra in Jakarta in May 2005, conductor Edward Van Ness, with further performances in Osaka and Tokyo, Yogyakarta and Jakarta.
Commissioned note
Commissioned by the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra
Dedication note
for the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra with thanks to Jack Body and Wayan Yudane
Performance history
01 Sep 2007: Performed by the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hikotaro Yazaki in Jakarta
03 Sep 2007: Performed by the Nusantara Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hikotaro Yazaki at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom in Yogyakarta