GAMELAN (2019)

interactive installation, steel profiles, 600x300x250cm

Gamelan is an interactive sound installation that consists of five raw steel profiles producing different pitch. The tonal scale refers to pelog - one of the tuning systems used in the instruments of gamelan - the traditional music ensemble of the Javanese, Sundanese and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, which performances aim to put the audience into the state of a spiritual balance. The word gamel in javanese means "to hit", most of the instruments used are metallophones.