GENERAL

Blended Shadow Puppets – Anti-Hate Project Website

Wayang: Enclyclopedia of Puppetry

Blended Shadow Puppets – Anti-Hate Project

STORIES

Add true and fictional stories here.

From the Ramayana:

Rama hunting the golden deer

The abduction of Sita; Sita in the Ashoka gardens (Ravana’s fruitless seduction attempts and the meeting between Hanuman and Sita)

The monkey army crossing the sea

Hanuman’s ransacking of the Ashoka gardens and setting fire to Ravana’s palace.

From the Mahabharata:

The rigged game of dice following which the five Pandavas must exile themselves in the forest, losing at the same time their kingdom and their common spouse, Draupadi

Draupadi saved from the lust of the Kauravas by Krishna

Arjuna, dancing master

The execution of Dushasana, a Kaurava, by the Pandava, Bhima;
The death of Abhimanyu, Arjuna’s son.

https://isha.sadhguru.org/en/wisdom/article/mahabharat-episode-17-karna-doomed-birth

 

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Javanese Gamelan

Knobbed-Gong based orchestras used to accompany Shadow Puppet performances. Integral to the style and feel of this tradition.

Gamelan Wikipedia Article

Gamelan Performance (Sari Raras)

Gamelan Performance (Pelog Barant).  (Pelog is one of the two Javanese Scales: Pelog and Slendro)

Balenese Gamelan Rhythms

A huge library of notated gamelan scores. (Note these scores are in traditional notation, so specific pitches are not represented.  Instead, they are represented by a number that indicates the position in the allocated scale. They describe a combinatoric progression through a melody, and so the name of the melody determines the actual pitches)

Sample Libraries

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