I came across a project some folks did fairly recently about synthesizing and analyzing gamelan music using C Sound and Max/MSP. The aim of the project was to sample, analyze, and create a computer music composition simulating the gamelan instruments Kemong, Kempli, Jegogan, Gong, Calung, Gangsa, and Reyong. Central to the project was analyzing pitch frequencies, and simulating the harmonic beating which takes place between the male and female tunings of several instruments. The procedure for sampling the instruments, and also utilizing a software synthesis application to analyze the sounds will be described below. Their goal was to create a computer system that would achieve this effect. I am interested in building a series of chambers that would achieve the same effect except by use of chanting techniques as oppose to simulated percussion. The object of this project is not simulate the sounds of the gamelan, but rather to create an environment in which proportionately relevant partials are generated as well as the beating effect which gives the gamelan it's specific spectral nature.
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