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Kebjar-Bali is featured on the CD, “Voices”.
Kebjar-Bali was premiered in 1982 at the tenth anniversary concert of NEXUS at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto, and the orchestral version was premiered by the Rochester Chamber Orchestra that same year. The composition is based on the traditional music of Bali, which is normally performed by a Gamelan orchestra – comprised of as many as 25 percussion instruments along with flutes and a few string instruments. In Kebjar-Bali NEXUS utilizes a number of tuned gongs from southeast Asia and standard western mallet percussion instruments – marimbas, a vibraphone, and two sets of songbells (alto glockenspiels). The term “Kebjar” refers to a twentieth-century Balinese musical style. The word literally means “to burst into flame”, and this is represented in the music by highly technical and rhythmically intricate passages which are interspersed with sections in a more stately style.
