ENSEMBLES
Ensemble Multiphone
Ensemble Multifoon, founded in 1995, consists of professional percussionists and gamelan players. The chromatic gamelan offers composers the opportunity to combine gamelan with western instruments. The ensemble will play works by Philemon Mukarno, Joey Roukens, Andries van Rossem, Christina Viola Oorebeek, Simon Clark, Michael Norris and Christian Détlefsen, as well as compositions by founder Sinta Wullur.
Global Gongs
Ensemble Global Gongs, founded in 2020, consists of amateur and professional gamelan players. The repertoire is aimed at minimal music, inspired by non-western music. The set of instruments is set up like a theatrical installation, which offers space for rituals and gatherings.
Global Gongs Lab
Global Gongs Lab was founded by Sinta Wullur and composer Maarten Bauer.
It is composed of both creative and performing musicians with the focus 'Creating new repertoire for the chromatic gamelan'. Twice a year performances are given as a result of a series of meetings where existing repertoire is taught and new repertoire is created in the form of composition workshops.
Duo Merpati
The classical Duo Merpati consists of Sinta Wullur (vocals and piano) and Monique Coppens (piano). Their repertoire includes several song cycles. Malaysian Pantoons,poems translated into Dutch by Hella S. Haasse;
tagore songs,original songs by Rabindranath Tagore, and indo songs, well-known traditional Indonesian songs. For these cycles, Sinta Wullur wrote contemporary piano accompaniments, a mix of gamelan patterns and references to Western classical music. In addition to the songs, they also play transcriptions of Balinese gamelan for two pianos by the composer Colin McPhee.
Raga Impressions
Under the umbrella of Raga Impressions, Sinta Wullur plays together with a pool of musicians from the Indian music world. The neo classical minimal music, raga improvisations, own compositions and works of Philip Glass are suitable for every stage, but also for celebrations and commemorations.
Gamelan Friends
Gamelan Friends plays traditional gamelan. A gender wayang duo brings ceremonial Balinese music on two genders. Accompanied by a small Javanese gamelan ensemble, Sinta sings Javanese songs. Gamelan Friends plays parade music on gongs and cymbals inspired by Balinese balaganjur.
Samasa
Jazz-fusion groupSamasa consists of Sinta Wullur, vocals and piano, Martijn Baaijens, guitar, Daniël van Huffelen, bass and Kim Weemhoff, percussion. The ensemble plays compositions by Martijn Baaijens and Sinta Wullur. Their work is a fusion of Indian raga and jazz, with songs such asBhairav Blues (Martijn) en Bangla Satie Blues (Sinta) of the CD Blue Raag.