Tag: Ensembling!

Ensembling: Gamelan MiniVersion!

MiniVersion Gamelan

This was one of the initial Ensembling-version/family/ensemble instrument-type inspiring tickets.
Initially added on September 2017, it was delayed because it required all the sub-tickets for each instrument being created (and I’m lazy!).
Eventually GCI student mathure, with help from GCI finalist TheFaR8, researched and added a lot of the missing sub-ticket instruments. Many, many thanks to both of them!

There are still however many more gamelan instruments not yet added – if you want a particular one, please add a sub-ticket under INST-556!
Likewise there were a couple instruments that we couldn’t add, since they need to wait for MBS-9642 to be implemented and voice types becoming “instruments”, those being:

There’s also at least one more vocal “instrument” that has no ticket yet, but also can’t be added for the same reason: the kecak (a type of chanting). Additionally, alok and senggakan seem like they might also need adding, but I actually have no idea what these are since they only have Wikipedia page in Javanese ︎😅︎

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Remember what I said previously about getting rid of metallophone? :​D
hahaha, what a difference in opinion research will bring… ♪;︎
Since the gamelan included so many percussion idiophones (especially metal/tuned ones) it became a natural continuation fix of our previous (clapper tree mini-version).
That meant that we could finally fix up the metallophone/xylophone/lithophone mess under percussion idiophone!
This also included merging tuned percussion into percussion idiophone (“tuned percussion” as an instrument terminology on Wikipedia was deprecated anyway) and sorting out chimes and other related suches.

Stay tuned for कुछ वीणा सम्बन्धित चीजें!

¹ suuper thanks to ’19 GCI student Antara for additional research on this ticket.

Ensembling: Clapper MiniVersion or idiophones!

The first sub-section of the gigantic “Ensemble this” version is already done:

This started out as a “create clapper-tree” ticket, created after dealing with the clapper ticket during from let’s get serious:

Ticket that inspired/started this

  • [INST-621] – Clapper (done in lets get serious)

Much of the initial part of this mini-version was done during let’s get serious. However, after coming back to it later, it became apparent that a more overarching edit and reorganization of idiophones was needed, so the second phase of this work involved linking existing and creating new idiophone instruments and organizing them.

Many of the tickets in this version were created or improved by students during GCI ’18. Many thanks to our students George Omnet and Jayant Dharwadkar, especially!

MiniVersion Clapper tree

  • [INST-630] – Rearrange idiophone tree (was: Create clapper tree)
    • [INST-751] – Boomwhacker
    • [INST-752] – Krap
    • [INST-608] – Add “shaken idiophone” and “scraped idiophone”
    • [INST-606] – Add concussion and percussion under “struck idiophone”
    • [INST-741] – Rearrange idiophone and percussion tree
    • [INST-732] – Research if shakers and rattles should be different
    • [INST-783] – clapstick
    • [INST-602] – Chinese paiban clapper and guban combo
    • [INST-566] – Arrabel

Thanks in great part to the new How to Add Instruments guide, we now had a framework to better objectively review inclusions of instruments. Following that, these instruments were found to be either not applicable (noisemakers not intended for music as such, rather than musical instruments) or to be too much of a novelty instrument:

Closed as not applicable / Reopen if/when musical use is demonstrated

The improvement of the idiophone section isn’t completely done however! Some more work is needed: moving and/or renaming the “tuned percussion” instrument (which is basically equivalent to the “percussion struck idiophones” in Hornbostel-Sachs already anyway) and (possibly) getting rid of “metallophone” (which is almost a duplicate of tuned percussion in function today, and that in meaning is basically just “idiophones made of metal”), which doesn’t seem necessary anymore.

Gamelan! (Photo by Bachtiar Djanan; used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.)
Gamelan! (Photo by Bachtiar Djanan; used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.)

Next, look forward to veena Gamelan!