On Downtown Only performed by the DownTown Ensemble on Lovely Music Ltd, LCD 3081 Recorded on The Complete Gamelan in the New World performed by Gamelan Son of Lion, double CD, Locust Music 41/42 CD 1.įor 6 traditional fiddles, piano and wind ensemble on Fanfare for Rutgers with the Rutgers Wind Ensemble conducted by William Berz recorded by Mark Custom Recording Service, Inc. On New Gamelan/New York performed by Gamelan Son of Lion, GSOL. Performed by Nick Didkovsky and Mark Stewart, guitars His works are published by Frog Peak Music and Theodore Presser.

His most recent project is the Flexible Orchestra, a reform of the Western orchestra inspired to some degree by his experience with the gamelan as a musical, social, and cultural phenomenon. He has developed a special keyless clarinet made from a length of plastic pipe that allows him to play in the Indonesian slendro tuning system, which he plays with the group on occasion. Since 1976, Goode has been a member of Gamelan Son of Lion, a Javanese-style iron gamelan ensemble dedicated to new music, for which he has composed many works. As a clarinetist he is proficient in the technique of circular breathing, which he uses frequently in performances with the group.

Goode served as Director of the Electronic Music Studio of Rutgers University from 1971 to 1998 and is co-director of the DownTown Ensemble which he co-founded in New York in 1983. Often two or more of these elements are combined in a single composition. Goode’s works show influence from several sources, including bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, drone, Indonesian gamelan music, and minimal music (specifically music as a gradual process). He studied philosophy, and then music with Henry Cowell, Otto Luening, Pauline Oliveros, and Kenneth Gaburo. New York, January 24, 1936) is an American composer and clarinetist. Barbara Memory, director of music therapy at ECU, coordinated the meeting and workshop.Goode (b. A gamelan is a set of instruments as a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together.ĭr. He brought a large gamelan “orchestra” from Bali, and participants learned to play and understand the role of the gamelan in Balinese society, as well as make applications to therapeutic and educational environments.Ī gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Michael Rohrbacher, director of music therapy at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va. In attendance were professional and student music therapists from across the state and music educators and world music students from Pitt County and ECU.Ī five-hour continuing education workshop was conducted by ECU alumnus Dr. The ECU Music Therapy Program hosted the Music Therapy Association of North Carolina spring meeting April 24, at the ECU School of Music.

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