Hi Jeff,
I'd love to hear your tincamelan. I knew a guy in Seattle when I
lived on the left coast who built his own quasi gamelan instruments-
Mike Edwards. We studied the Javanese stuff under Jarrad Powell and
Maria Omo of Gamelan Pacifica.
I think now I'm only going to do one piece in that 160 cent scale- it
sounds really good on my m'birangi (sort of an elongated electric
m'bira, played with four fingers (no thumbs)) but not so great on
strings. Aside from that, I'll do a free jazz Sun Ra Coltrane freak
out thing on one of the new instruments (a nine soon-to-be ten string
bowed/plucked electric tube, related to my ubertar). Do you record
your goats and chickens?

Paul


--- In crazy_music@yahoogroups.com, "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...>
wrote:
> on 7/8/03 10:47 PM, Paul wrote:
>
> > Anyone else here into the
> > old school way of making sounds by vibrating objects?
>
> Hi Paul, we have a small ensemble of instruments we call the
Hillbilly
> Tincamelan, which is a small gamelan made out of discarded
materials and
> objects.
>
> There is a rack of gongs, a xylophone, a set of soprano bonangs, a
thing
> with drapery cords that I should come up with a name for, and
miscellaneous
> drums and rattles. Recently have added a Katagotan to it, but so
far have
> played the katagotan with an mbira and rattle grouping rather than
with the
> idiophones.
>
> We show up unexpectedly at places and give concerts, which so far
have been
> welcomed by our hapless and unsuspecting audiences.
>
> Your web page has a fantastic photo of you playing a number of
instruments
> I've never seen before. If I was within 150 miles of your concert,
wild
> horses couldn't keep me away, but I am about a thousand miles which
is more
> than a day trip can handle and I can't be gone for more than a day
because
> of the goats and chickens.
>
> - Jeff