DATES FOR 2010







Southbank Gamelan Players and Plaid tour.

Electro-alchemists Plaid blend their trademark sound with the mesmerising textures and rhythms of a Javanese gamelan orchestra. Gamelan has influenced so much western electronic, from Aphex Twin to Kode9, but both genres have never before shared the same stage, until now.

Commissioned by Southbank Centre as part of Ether 2009, Electronic Music Duo Plaid worked with Artist in Residence Rahayu Supanggah and Ensemble in Residence Southbank Gamelan Players (SbGP) to create an exciting collaboration of gamelan and electronic music which was premiered in April 2009 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

SbGP and Plaid have since been developing this piece and embark on a tour starting in June 2010.


Tour dates:

Click here to read a review of the original Plaid SbGP performance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 2009.

PAST HIGHLIGHTS

Royal Northern College of Music Gamelan Weekend
Manchester
Saturday 28 November 2009
7.30pm: Birth, Death and Marriage: A Journey through life in Javanese Music and Dance

The South Bank Gamelan Players make a welcome return to Manchester with a concert centered around the Javanese form of sung poetry called mÅcÅpÅt.

10pm: Wayang Kulit

In the informal surroundings of the RNCM Café Bar, this exciting English language performance of traditional Javanese shadow puppetry, accompanied by full gamelan, will fill the night with ancient wisdom and topical humour.

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British Museum
BP Lecture Theatre
London
Saturday 13 June 2009, 6.30pm

Dancer Ni Made Pujawati and the Southbank Gamelan Players present music and dance from the royal courts of Central Java.

St Brandon's Church, Brancepeth
Durham
Saturday 6 June 2009, 7.30pm

Following a stunning show in the Gala Theatre last year, Musicon welcomes back Europe's formost Gamelan group. From exuberant folk traditions to the refinement of the Javanese royal courts: Southbank Gamelan Players, Ensemble in Residence at London Southbank Centre, presents a rich and varied programme of music from Central Java.

Plaid, Supanggah and SbGP
Ether Festival
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 18 April 2009, 7.30pm

Featuring the SbGP playing Supanggah's music in a pre-concert set in the hall, followed by sets from electronica duo Plaid, and a collaboration between Plaid, Supanggah and the SbGP.

Portico Quartet and Supanggah
London Jazz Festival in association with BBC Radio 3
Purcell Room
Wednesday 19 November 2008, 7.45pm

Nominated for this year's Mercury Award, the Portico Quartet play melodic, rhythmic music that mixes the inspiration of Philip Glass and Steve Reich with a very contemporary kind of improvisation - engagingly chiming themes delivered by steel pan-like Hang drums, saxophone and bass. They have played and busked all over the world, and they've always been fascinated by gamelan, so they jumped at the chance when Southbank Centre and the London Jazz Festival suggested a collaboration with Indonesian gamelan master Rahayu Supanggah, a Southbank Centre Artist in Residence, supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Rahayu Supanggah opens the evening performing with Southbank Gamelan Players, Portico Quartet play their own set, and then Supanggah and Portico join forces.

NEW MUSIC
Southbank Gamelan Players in Malaysia
Terengganu International Gamelan Festival
Kuala Terengganu, 26-29 August 2008

SbGP presents two programmes of new British music for gamelan in a festival featuring gamelan ensembles from Malaysia, Java, Bali, Japan and UK.

GAMELAN and DANCE
Gala Theatre, Millennium Place, Durham
Saturday 7 June, 7.30 pm, 2008

SbGP presents an evening of Javanese music ancient and modern, from the regal to the raucous. Featuring guest dancer Ni Madé Pujawati. Pre-concert talk and demonstration from 6.30 pm. Part of the University of Durhams's Musicon concert series.

WAYANG KULIT - Shadow-puppet play
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Thursday 29 May - Sunday 1 June

Over four days, SbGP, working with puppeteer Matthew Cohen, presents a shadow puppet performance of the entire (!) Ramayana, from the birth of Ravana to the fall of Alengka. The show is part of the British Library's Ramayana exhibition, running 16 May - 14 September 2008, which also includes gamelan workshops.