If you would like to become a member of Gamelan Manik Harum or request a performance by them please contact Dorothy Morrison (morrisondorothy at ). Twelve members of Gamelan Manik Harum have traveled to Bali and studied with Pak Made and his family in their home village. The group gratefully acknowledges the generous support of: The Aaron Bolton Memorial Project Arts Missoula The Montana Arts Council the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia (Los Angeles) and the Lewis and Clark Elementary School PTA. Gamelan Manik Harum has experimented with some site specific performances. Manik Harum also performs Balaganjur or marching gamelan. Some members of Manik Harum have collaborated on Electric Gamelan and other members are learning and practicing Gamelan gender wayang or shadow puppet music and have formed a small ensemble known as Alas Harum (which can be translated as “aroma of the forest”). Gamelan Manik Harum has collaborated in performances with Lewis and Clark Elementary School students, Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre School, Missoula area dancers organized by Faith Morrison, Sentinel High School art students, Ewam Sang-ngag Ling, and Sussex School art students.
Dorothy also incorporates Gamelan angklung in her music classroom (also see and see and see and see) at Lewis and Clark Elementary School and has worked with Pak Made in establishing Kocong! a 5th grade student performing group as well as a student Balaganjur or marching gamelan and has performed Kecak a Balinese dance and vocal chant, and Baris a boys dance. This is the second gamelan group that Dorothy has helped establish in Missoula the first was at the University of Montana. The name Manik Harum can be translated as “a powerful force that gives you a good feeling like a pleasant aroma”. All music, performance choreography, and outfits are under the guidance of Pak Made. Pak Made, sometimes along with his wife Balinese Master Dancer Ni Ketut Marni and sons Putu, Ade and Aji, has done 19 music and dance residencies in Missoula with the group.
BALINESE GAMELAN FULL
Gamelan Manik Harum was established in 2007 by Dorothy Morrison, musical director, and was named on a full moon, total lunar eclipse night Februby Balinese Master Musician I Made Lasmawan. In gamelan, the core melody is a kind of a structural base upon which all the other instrumental parts are based. The two dominant types of Gamelan ensembles are Javanese and. Powered-By Balinese Gamelan 13 3.1.2 Calung, Panyacah and Jegog Calung The Calung generally plays the core melody of a piece, which often tends to be much slower than the perceived speed of the music.
The majority of Gamelan instruments are percussive, and they include xylophone-like metallophones of different sizes and pitches, tuned gong chimes, very large pitched gongs and an assortment of drums and percussion. Gamelan angklung is a traditional Balinese ensemble with mostly bronze metallophone instruments comprising a percussion orchestra. A Gamelan is an ensemble of instruments originating in Indonesia. Gamelan Manik Harum is a community gamelan in Missoula, Montana welcoming all who wish to dedicate themselves to practice regularly, play and perform Balinese Gamelan angklung music together.
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