Visiting a Gamelan Orchestra in Bali
In Bali I had the unique opportunity to study and record the sacred gongs of a gamelan orchestra. Quite apart from the fact that we had what felt like 45 degrees Celsius in the shade, and the humidity was at what felt like 99% in the monsoon season, I really had a lot of fun recording.
What really baffled me was the fact that the gongs were almost all tuned too directly to the planetary tones. The tuning was not only close but the gongs were apparently really tuned directly to the tuning tones, which Hans Cousto presents in his work: The Cosmic Octave.
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