Bali by Heart
In June 2006, eleven musicians from Vancouver joined the twenty-seven members of the gamelan Çudamani in the small village of Pengekosan, center Bali, and prepared for a performance of a new work by Canadian Michael Tenzer, composer and ethnomusicologist. For a month, they had to adjust to a totally new physical and cultural environment, meet certain social and protocol obligations, and perform music in a way that had never been attempted.