Intimate Nature’s
Gamelan Section

Traditional Performance Practice:
Gamelan with Sean Williams

faculty's email address: williams@evergreen.edu
Office Location: Com 301
Phone: 867-6623
Sean's own website:
http://academic.evergreen.edu/w/williams/

Traditional Performance Practice: Gamelan with Sean Williams: This workshop has several performances scheduled (including at the Northwest Folklife Festival over Memorial Day weekend), so students must be prepared to practice outside the regularly-scheduled gamelan session times, and come to gamelan class ready to play. [Sean will expect documentation of practice time as well as real-life musical proof that you have been working on your playing.] Students who do not plan to work seriously and intensively on their musicianship (both as instrumentalists and as singers) should not be a part of this workshop. Sean’s expectation of you is that you learn more about ethnomusicology theory and practice, that you read a handful of articles and be able to comment on them in seminar, and that you use your independent study project as an opportunity to enhance or expand on a particular musical interest. For example, students who already specialize in one musical style (classical, rock, blues, folk) should consider expanding into a different genre (e.g., classical piano to blues, violin to Cajun or Irish fiddle; rock guitar to classical guitar, etc.). If you can’t play an instrument, consider using spring quarter as a chance to dive intensively into the one you’ve always wanted to study.