Gamelan

PS21 PATHWAYS PERFORMANCE

August 4th, 4 pm, PS21 Grounds

Gamelan

New York-based Gamelan Yowana Sari perform an indoor-outdoor, site-responsive performance of traditional Balinese music for the “Samara Dana” gamelan, plus new works by Michael Gordon and Evan Ziporyn.

Join us after the performance to try out the instruments and talk with the performers!

Since forming in 2011, Gamelan Yowana Sari has been a performing Balinese Art Ensemble in residence at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, NYC. Under the direction of Michael Lipsey and Fred Trumpy, Yowana Sari have toured Bali multiple times, studying and performing under the master composer and musician I Dewa Ketut Alit in Pengosekan, Bali. For 2024, the group has commissioned new works from Michael Gordon and Evan Ziporyn and will perform these alongside compositions by Dewa Alit and Vivian Fung at the Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival, PS21, and MASS MoCA Summer Music Festival.

Program:

Pendet Penyambutan — Traditional
Dancer – Miranda Danusugongo

Stones are the Flowers — Kyle Miller

Sea Salt — Michael Gordon

Pangenter Alit I Ketut — Dewa Alit
Dancer – Miranda Danusugondo

Aeriform Kite — Evan Ziproyn