Pangamelan at ULL: Impro and contemporary counterpoint in 7/8
Channel: Pangamelan org
Date: 31/10/2022

Martí Ruids PhD and Raquel Cruces performed during the RADAR Congress, at the Fine Arts Faculty of ULL, Tenerife, illustrating Ruid's talk about Pangamelan. Inthis video we can see the use of pans as bells, in a short improvisation and a second piece, using the pans as flat gongs -equivalent to reyong or bonang- in a processual counterpoint -kotekan- piece, inspired in a ryhtmical motive by the minimalist group Penguin Cafe Orchestra in 7/8. The music was performed with a set of pans gathered by the gentle ULL colleagues, and only been transformed in to a Pangamelan set few hours before the performance. Yes, it can be as quick as that when you know what strategy to follow, even when you don't know the tuning in advance.