Gamelan music workshop
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This programme is held in Hungarian.
For centuries, making music was a communal experience. It’s true that some artists have now “moved up” onto the stage, while the audience has “moved down” into the auditorium, and that we can listen to almost any music on our own with earbuds in—but on a historical scale, all of this is a relatively recent development. Although this new way of listening naturally has its own charm, in the World Village+ series, we’d like to return to our roots, break down the invisible wall between stage and auditorium, and bring the audience into the community of musicians.
Gamelan is ancient music; stone carvings at the 8th-century Borobudur Temple already depict gamelan musicians. The word gamelan refers to the genre, the way of making music, and the instruments as a whole.
This music, widespread in Southeast Asia, encompasses many subgenres, both large and small. One of the best known is the Central Javanese court style, which we have also studied and perform. Gamelan is often presented as percussion music, and indeed it includes many percussion instruments, but the vocal parts are just as important, and other instruments—stringed, plucked, and wind instruments—can also be found in it.
Gamelan has its own distinctive approach to music and way of working, quite different from the European one. Above all, it is communal music. The musicians’ playing together creates a musical texture with no defined lead melody and accompaniment. The handling of musical time is also extraordinarily flexible—one might even say fractal-like. These and similar “inner secrets” will be discussed during the workshop, and we’ll also try many of them out in practice.
Dear Visitor, We kindly inform you that during the event, photographs, audio recordings, and/or video recordings may be taken. By attending the event, you consent to the recording of such materials through your implied conduct.
A new series entitled World Village+ is launching at the House of Music, which, as a companion to Balázs Weyer's educational music series World Village, focuses on playing music together in a workshop format.
