Malaysian composer and arranger, Susan Sarah John, is working on a new piece for Hands Percussion Team, a Chinese-Malaysian percussion group that combines all sorts of percussion instruments from different cultures in the world.
This piece uses Javanese gamelan set, 3 Chinese lion dance drums, a drum set, and an electric guitar.
I had the privilege to watch the rehearsal tonight, and I thought it was a beautiful piece.
The guitarist is my friend, Gideon Aluba, a wonderful self-taught musician whom I worked with a couple of years ago. He played some beautiful sound in there, sometimes reminds me of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint, because he was playing over the minimalistic and rhythmic gamelan.
Sarah retuned the gamelan set to make it diatonic, it sounded just fine!
I hope to see the real performance, but of course, I won't be here...
Happy 10 years old Hands!!!
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