Gamelan Listrik: A Low-cost Solution to Introduce Javanese Gamelan to the Young Generation

Petrus Sutyasadi

2019

Abstract

This paper offers a new design of electric musical instrument that called Gamelan Listrik. Gamelan Listrik is designed to be a low-cost instrument that can be used to play Javanese traditional music ensemble. A set of traditional gamelan instrument is very expensive. This makes only a few elementary schools own gamelan instrument and causes only a few numbers of students who know the instrument or even able to play it. Gamelan Listrik is proposed to be the solution of this matter. Using the gamelan Listrik, an elementary school can develop a gamelan class where the students can learn basic playing of the instrument and gain experiences. The most important thing is the students will have opportunity to develop their motivation in their early age. Experiments showed that Gamelan Listrik performed satisfactorily. It has small latency and the sound volume can be controlled by varying the mallet hitting/striking force to mimic the real gamelan playing. The cost of gamelan listrik is about 1/10 from the cheapest low quality of real gamelan made of iron, or about 1/100 from good quality made of bronze.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sutyasadi P. (2019). Gamelan Listrik: A Low-cost Solution to Introduce Javanese Gamelan to the Young Generation.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES, ISBN 978-989-758-450-3, pages 172-176. DOI: 10.5220/0008556901720176

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iconarties19,
author={Petrus Sutyasadi},
title={Gamelan Listrik: A Low-cost Solution to Introduce Javanese Gamelan to the Young Generation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES,},
year={2019},
pages={172-176},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008556901720176},
isbn={978-989-758-450-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES,
TI - Gamelan Listrik: A Low-cost Solution to Introduce Javanese Gamelan to the Young Generation
SN - 978-989-758-450-3
AU - Sutyasadi P.
PY - 2019
SP - 172
EP - 176
DO - 10.5220/0008556901720176