Nusantara Arts presents "Grassroots Gamelan: Shadow Puppets in Broadway-Fillmore" at Eugene V. Debs Hall, Buffalo, NY
Saturday June 8, 2024
Live multitrack recording and mix by Shaun Mullins/Propellerhead Media synced to two short iPhone walkaround shots.
Thanks to Matt Dunning, Dan Neveu, Nusantara Arts, Eugene V. Debs Hall crew, and all involved!
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The Story: "Ciptoning"
Ciptoning is one of the original stories of Javanese wayang. The story is a meditation on meditation, bravery and mastery over ones inner self in order to do great things for others.
About Wayang Kulit Performances:
Wayang Kulit is an Indonesian community-based art form incorporating two dimensional shadow-puppet theater, gamelan music, ancient stories, philosophy, comedy, and civic engagement. Most stories in wayang performances come from the ancient Indian epics of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.
The “dahlang” is the leader of the performance, moving the puppets, cuing the gamelan orchestra, singing, making jokes, philosophizing and performing a large number of characters from a vast number of stories. Dahlang traditionally come from families of other dahlang, but there are now public school for dahlang education in Indonesia.
About the Dahlang puppet master Midiyanto:
A renowned Javanese musician and dhalang (puppet master). Born in Wonogiri, a rural district in the southern part of Central Java, Midiyanto comes from a multi generational family of gamelan musicians and puppeteers. He attended SMKI performing arts high school and STSI, (now ISI) The Indonesian University of Arts in Surakarta. Over the last 30 years Midiyanto has taught and performed extensively in Indonesia, the U.S., Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. He has been featured in several documentary films and directed the gamelan for the Shadow Music of Java CD recorded at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Currently Midiyanto, teaches and performs as Lecturer and Director of Gamelan Sari Raras at UC, Berkeley.

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