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Langen Suka at Soundwaves – Ripple

01-05-2007

Sunday 29 April 2007, 1:00-3:00 pm, Dee Why Beach, Sydney.
Langen Suka Sydney Gamelan Association
Thomas Stewart, Director
Tabitha Williams, Dancer

A Performance of Javanese Gamelan Music and Dance as part of the Soundwaves – Ripple Festival, Warringah Council featuring the solo dance ‘Gambir Anom’ in Central-Java style, and a selection of traditional instrumental gamelan pieces in the pelog scale, from ‘gendhing alus’ (refined) to ‘gendhing soran’ (loud style) to ‘gendhing gecul’ (humorous).

I played the saron barung for the whole repertoire, except for Manyarsewu (in which I majorly screwed up by haphazardly hitting the gong and the kempul).

Langen Suka is grateful to the Australian Museum, the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia and the University of Sydney for the use and loan of the gamelan instruments.

Ripple, and books

By: kat

23-03-2007

Books, Oddments

Sorry to those reading from RSS readers — my blog went a bit nuts after I updated WordPress and changed the layout.

Ripple – A Celebration of Water in Warringah
I will be performing for SoundWaves at a gamelan concert as part of Langen Suka on April 29, 1-3pm.
80 minutes of Gamelan with one dance, the rest would be a wayang shadow puppet performance.

New additions to books @ cc.
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption by Laura J. Miller
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Semangat Baru: Kolonialisme, Budaya Cetak dan Kesastraan Sunda Abad ke-19 by Mikihiro Moriyama
Heart of a Dog+ by Mikhail Bulgakov
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are* by Joseph LeDoux
The Day of the Locust+ by Nathanael West

* = recommended

Protected: le deluge

By: kat

18-11-2006

Books, Events, Oddments

Siblings

By: kat

27-05-2006

Events, Works

1st showing: Bowraville Grants Hall
High St., Bowraville
Wed 14 June 2006, 12.30pm – 2.30pm

2nd showing: Redfern Community Centre
29-53 Hugo St., Redfern
Tue 27 June 2006, 6.00pm – 7.30pm

With its origin in dreaming, the story of siblings unfolds, a bird starts losing its feathers, a girl eats them and the Storm Sisters intervene. Siblings is inspired by the myth of the Waugeluk Sisters. It situates elements of this myth within our modern day world. Siblings traverses the line between certainty and mystery, history and story, past and present.

Siblings was initially conceived of as a travelling puppetry show. The show has been designed to pack up into two travelling trunks and can be viewed in halls, classrooms or theatres. The diverse puppetry styles and visual impact of siblings, with its original voice, can be combined with puppetry workshops to pave the way for communities to tell their own stories.

Maddie
“Is that a bird on my window?”

“She’s going to eat another feather.” You can also download a short video of the scene (AVI, 4.1 MB)

“Harry! He’s got my packet of biscuit!”

The final scene

Some puppet photos:

Slightly larger-sized collage photo here. And not forgetting the embittered bird(s) of compassion.

This creative development is generously supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, the City of Sydney through the Redfern Community Centre, Bowraville Youth Club, Bowraville Community Alliance, and ERTH Visual & Physical Inc.