Tardigrain + Gamelan Gender + Audiostretch = Experimental Ambient Bliss

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Edit: Giveaway winners have been picked: KZbin: Drumatix Charlie Moody Mykola Leonovych Insta: Ecstatic Yantra Twitter: Samspo As David Toop describes in his seminal work on Ambient Music, Ocean of Sound, the Gamelan played a huge role in inspiring composers like Debussy as well as the development of ambient music. The Pitchfork article below also talks about its influence on IDM artists like Autechre and Plaid, as well as the likes of Bjork. Here I am using the app Gamelan Gender played into Tardigrain Granular - Vid here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJy8f3-HiZqiqqs I then recorded a short performance on Tardigrain and loaded in Audiostretch where I did live timestretching to further manipulate the sound in some deliciously weird directions. The final part of the video is the screen recording of that performance manipulated visually in Glitch Studio. The hypnotic vibe of this short piece, as well as the extreme loud-soft dynamics, is very much in keeping with the traditional ability of gamelan performance to engender trance-like states. Giveaway: There is a free version of Gamelan Gender for iOS called Gamelan Gender Lite. It's limitation is: can't save changes, fewer included songs, no support for Inter-App Audio/Audiobus. An IAP can unlock those. Here I am offering 5 copies of the full app that comes out of the box without any of those limitations. There will be 3 winners for KZbin, 1 for Insta, 1 for Twitter. To win here on YT, simply a) subscribe to my channel and , if you like my vids, consider selecting 'all' when the notification bell pops up if you haven't already, b) give this vid a thumbs up 👍 and c) write a comment, any comment. Details of how to win on Insta and Twitter can be found at instagram.com/gavinskistutorials and twitter.com/gavinski_s?s=09 Donations, whether small or large, are very greatly appreciated . A lot of time and work goes into this channel and it pays a tiny amount. I’m very grateful to the few good people who actually donate and will certainly write to thank you in person. 🙏 My Bitcoin address: bc1q2fuky36qjycd5hum0ey6tgzgm0wjs9w63qgzl3 My PayPal paypal.me/GavinskisTutorials?locale.x=en_US Please note that Gamelan Gender is not an AUv3, and in AUM, if you want to route midi to it you have to do so using the routing matrix, as it lacks the hamburger menu to the left that most IAA apps would have. Interesting article: pitchfork.com/thepitch/298-gamelan-electronic-musics-unexpected-indonesian-influence/ Quote: “Orbital records or Autechre, there’s definitely an incredible amount of gamelan influence in that-whether they’re aware or not,” Evan Ziporyn, music professor at MIT and founder of the Gamelan Galak Tika ensemble in Boston told me over the phone. “It’s music that has a narrative, but not a linear narrative. Things are going to cycle, there are going to be patterns.” Full version app-store link and description: apps.apple.com/app/gamelan-gender/id806784043 iOS implementation of Balinese Gamelan Gender Wayang, tunable and now with Inter-App Audio and Audiobus support! Gender Wayang is a 10-key metallophone, coming in pairs, most be doubled from an other pair one octave higher, tuned in Slendro scale. As Gender Wayang is played with two panggul (mallets) - other than the Gangsa in Gong Kebyar - two player together play the melody (left hand) and the interlocking parts kotekan (right hand) as a complete „mini“ Gamelan. •Inter-App Audio/Audiobus support •Remote trigger for Audiobus Remote •MIDI file player •Animated keys for „traditional" learning •Sound bank sampled from real instruments •Keys assignable to midi notes (adjust to your MIDI file) •Tune it to your real instruments •Mathematical tuning system, only 5 keys have to be defined •Calculated tuning can be overwritten, and each of the 40 keys frequency can be defined •Loop parts for practicing, increase/decrease tempo on every reloop •Set tempo changes, to for example accelerate each repetition... •Change tuning to pelog scale and use it for Gong Kebyar practicing as well, create your own 10 key tunings.... •MIDI input (Core MIDI, physical and virtual, Audiobus 3) •Two touch play modes: gamelan style (strike and damp) and piano style (touch and release) Seller Othmar Kramis Size 19.7 MB Category Music Compatibility iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later. iPad Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later. iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later. Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

[@IsaakKwok]

This app sounds true to the real Gamelan. Would love to win a copy of it! 😀👍🏼

[@AndrisNiklavics]

Nicely 👍👍👍

[@jameswells_as_staticer]

That gamelan rings out so beautifully! And then you can just mess with it in awesome ways. Love it!!!

[@Notte_Bocks]

Well .. 🤪 something awesome different 🎵✨🎶 I love it - great presentation, Mr. G 🎶✨🙏🏻✨🎵

[@co1inn]

Love the paragraph on inspiration and intention behind the experiment!

[@PhaseShiftMusic]

Now that's some awesome stretchy ambient goodness!!!!!

[@dgervasi]

The Gamelan sounds amazing! So full and eerie!

[@MosEisleySpacePort1138]

Enjoying the sounds, Gavin. I’m in. Thanks!

[@Illkacirma]

great demo and finally some more non-standard tuning instruments are flying in :) i‘m in :)

[@charliemoody7168]

This is a total YES for me! The last decade or so I’ve been getting deeper and deeper into non-‘western’ instruments & their esoterica, and a good gamelan is still to be had. Would love to win a copy!

[@GavinskisTutorials]

You won! Please send me an email to the address posted in the About section of my channel ASAP and also send a reply to this message here in youtube just before you email me 👍 🎉

[@PhilosophyOfSound]

Nice to read about the historical context for this instrument. Also interesting adventures with the granular sound.

[@collisionaire]

Very cool app with many possibilities for sculpting tones 👍

[@dugnsand]

Great ambiance! The time-stretching really fascinated me. Seems so other worldly. Nice demo again Gavin.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Yes, time-stretching combined with the fact the audio os basically also being time-stretched at times in Tardigrain makes for some suoerb textures and tones

[@doctorconn888]

Magnificent!!! Love all your tutorials btw!!! Many have definitely pushed me into an app purchase while feeling unsure about them!!! And many thanks for that!!! My wallet might say otherwise though!!! 😄

[@GavinskisTutorials]

I have been accused of this many times, apologies to your wallet!

[@dimosbatris]

It sounds so real. Very inspiring!

[@peanutcram7927]

Interesting. Wasn’t aware of that gamelan app. Nice 👍🏼

[@chris6442]

Apps with exotic sounds or non western scales are in my opinion predestined for such granular and time streching experiments. Excellent demo!

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Fully agree, perfect for this!

[@PedroSantos-vc9dr]

Interesting...never heard of Gamelan. Have to check the free version to have a better understanding of it. Thanks for the details on the history of this! :-)

[@vlaad3]

beautiful and hypnotic

[@rolandpyle8914]

Absolutely lovely stuff.😀👏

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Glad u dig!

[@seniorbeatbox]

Nice, I would love the full version of this 😌

[@graemewebb2458]

Nice to see you back 👍

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Nice to be back 😁

[@howardanderson3061]

Wow you seem to always present such unique apps, apps that I must buy…Lol Would love to win this app, sounds amazing. As per usual your music examples are well, very “Musical”

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Thanks Howard, and even more so, thank you so much for the PayPal donation, greatly appreciated my friend!

[@PunchPinch]

Thanks for the demo and thanks for the chance to win.

[@alexfomin580]

Cool ambient demo, thanks!

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Cheers Alex!

[@Steelichi9]

Great app to put in Tardigrain! Would really love to explore with it as well. Thanks 🤙🏼

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Yeah these kinds of bell sounds are just beautiful in Tardigrain, I love this kind of thing.

[@BB-mt5sb]

I really like what you did here

[@benlefoe]

An excellent bit of audio manipulation there… this app has a lot of noise-making potential.

[@cuezaireekaa]

nice one again sir.

[@osidenick8891]

You definitely showed that the gamelan works really well with ambient sounds. I’ve got the other two apps, so I’d love to complete the trio try to create my own ambient bliss.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Cheers Nick!

[@nekurobaito]

Very interesting. Simple bell like sound has a lot of soundscape producing potential.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Definitely!

[@nigelrogers8690]

Love it 👏🏾 Chuck in a Koto and I'm gonna be trippin 🤣

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Why not throw in some Uilleann pipes while we:re at it!

[@angrypossumsx1259]

This is fantastic Gavin. Gamelan instruments can be very hypnotic and Ive been privalaged to play some at the Indonesian embassy.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Oh wow!

[@acornsonata]

I love Gamelan and could use this app. Thanks.

[@helmski]

Very nice Gavman. Love the organic sound! I'd like to introduce some heavy into the metal!

[@GavinskisTutorials]

This gamelan would sound great through any kind of distortion app like Shaper, SoundSaw etc

[@sam00sam]

Thanks for the demo

[@shinyisshiny7780]

Gamelan sounds awesome!

[@timelapsedigital2536]

Gamelan! I’d be into that, cheers!

[@cosimodastore7228]

Beautiful apps. 😊

[@careyviton]

Looks like fun!

[@johnhowardnardine6815]

This is very interesting and coincidental: over the weekend I sort of rediscovered the WOMAD album “Music and Rhythm” on which the gamelan plays a large role on several tracks. Your piece sounds lovely and amazing: very 4th World. Like to win a copy if I’m lucky.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Ah might have to give that a listen, thanks!

[@eylvy]

Never heard of this app, sounds good. Count me in for the Giveaway please.

[@Piktor201]

Very inspiring. I'm interested in Gamelan music since the german composer Eberhard Schoener made some cross over projects with the Bali Agung ensemble in the late 70s. Of course, what he did was completely different but I instantly felt the vibe of the indonesian Gendèr. I'd love to win a copy of Gamelan Gender.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

I’ll have to check that out, thanks!

[@beargonefission6160]

This sounds really cool! I've dug Gamelan sounds for years and tried using ring mods and resonators to grab some of the vibe, but this is just excellent. Off to get the free version!

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Shit ring mod on this would be insane

[@AegerSmoothie]

Those type of sounds usually have some rich overtones which makes it's very flexible when it come's to pitch-shifting, reversed in tardigrain sounds very cool

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Definitely!

[@Alex_Martz]

Nice, I'd like the full app please

[@graemewebb2458]

Just bought the David Toop book a week ago 👍

[@GavinskisTutorials]

I haven't finished it but it's great. Must get back to reading it!

[@bobphillips2341]

I’m loading gender as audiobus 3 input and made output to AUM. AUM shows gender as source when I use Audiobus as track source. Let’s me play loaded sequence or strike notes, hearing them in connected headphones. However not getting audio passed through to AUM. It does not record.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

I don’t really use Audiobus - maybe ask on the Audiobus Forum?

[@bobphillips2341]

@@GavinskisTutorials figured it out. Gender was loaded stand-alone before I started audiobus. I shut them all down. Loaded audiobus3. Set AUM as output. Then loaded gender as audiobus 3 input. Gender shows up as AUM channel. Playing gender demo recording via audiobus widget now shows audio on AUM channel meter. Enabling recording on gender AUM channel, record via AUM master record red button. Check AUM recordings via a ‘file’ channel load recorded audio file… It plays!! Gender MAY be used in AUM via audiobus!

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Excellent!

[@drumatix817]

The drone force is strong with this one.

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Haha 👍

[@GavinskisTutorials]

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[@drumatix817]

@@GavinskisTutorials WOHO! Thank you!

[@morganwebster6636]

Insane! Sweet times. 💙⚡️⚡️⚡️🎛🎚

[@1001usuarios]

Tremendo!

[@jzno]

Would love to win Gamelan 😮😮😮

[@jolieuke]

I had no clue about that Gamelan app. Sounds good. I played Gamelan for more than 10 years. Mostly Gamelan Gong Kebyar but I've learn a bit of Gender. It was the most difficult Gamelan to play. I don't want the app tho, just saying hello ! ;)

[@GavinskisTutorials]

OK, throwing a hi back at ya!

[@SkyTortoiseFerryman]

That's a cool plugin. Put me down for a try to win the iOS version of Gamelan.

[@JPGPakua]

Great app! I really have nothing like it and would really appreciate a chance at winning it.

[@andropolonsky]

Gamelian lite sound good…but timestreaching is fantastic!..is it any possibilities doing it live in AUm?

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Not with Audiostretch, but with PaulXstretch yes. I made a vid on PaulXstretch recently, it is great, amd free, but i love how clean the Audiostretch sound is.

[@grabule]

I'm in this fantastic giveaway 🤖 😀 🍄 ✨ ☕ 👍 🎹

[@daevkeli1013]

Well this is something else… Place my hat in the ring if not too late…

[@dcollett]

Gav, nice combination! I love this sound. Please add my name in the draw. Thanks.

[@PoppaDocRocks]

Count me in for this. Where did this app come from.. has it been out?

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Not sure how long it's been around. Interesting tidbit from the dev: The basic idea of this app lays way back in ~1995, written in GFA Basic on Atari, generating the sounds with a GM-module sending the detuned midi commands to a free midi channel...

[@ChristianKrupa]

Nice, I’d not heard of this gamelan app before…

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Me neither til I searched ‘gamelan’ on the App Store lol. Sounds pretty sweet.

[@ChristianKrupa]

@@GavinskisTutorials yeah too right, I’ll check out the lite version. I’ve got a bunch of recordings I made in Bali somewhere as well, I was there filming an eclipse a few years back and there was a really cool festival with giant puppets going on at the same time with processions that ended at temples with much music and partying…

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[@stratocumulusnimbostratus328]

Would love to win

[@grafemo]

I'm in

[@GavinskisTutorials]

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[@grafemo]

@@GavinskisTutorials wow, thanks!

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[@GavinskisTutorials]

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[@mattwand1869]

will this comment suffice?

[@GavinskisTutorials]

Sure