Wayang kulit

from Malaysia

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Kulit - leather

Puppet - "Bayang" means imagination of spirit


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Gamelan - accompanies wayang kulit


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Dalang - chief performer who is accompanied by several instruments



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Holder  - buffalo horn

Shadow play is an invention of man reflects his experience of nature and of his thought

Gamelan - bronze percussion, augmented by other percussion instrument, strings and flute
a. Saron - xylophone of heavy bronze bar
b. Gender - bronze xxylophone with resonance chamber
c.Bonang - bronze bowls
d. Gong and Kampul - hanging gongs
e. Kenok and Ketuk - single inverted bronze bowl

Performance(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang_kulit

The stage of a wayang performance includes several components. 

it has a stretched linen canvas (kelir) acted as a canvas, dividing the dalang (puppeteer) and the spectator.

 A coconut-oil lamp (Javanese blencong or Balinese damar) – which in modern time usually replaced with electric light – casts shadow onto the screen.

 A banana trunk (Javanese gedebog, Balinese gedebong) lies on the ground between the screen and the dalang, where the figures are stick to hold them in place. 

To the right of the dalang sits the puppet chest, which the dalang uses as a drum during the performance, hitting it with a wooden mallet.

 In a Javanese wayang kulit performance, the dalang may use a cymbal-like percussion instrument at his feet to cue the musicians. 

The musicians sit behind the dalang in a gamelan orchestra setting. Gamelan orchestra is an integral part of the Javanese wayang kulit performance. The performance are accompanied with female singers (pesinden) and male singers (wirasuara).

The setting of the banana trunk on the ground and canvas on the sky symbolizes each the earth and the sky, the whole composition symbolizes the entire cosmos. When the dalang animates the puppet figures and moves it across the screen, divine forces are acting in his hands with which he directs the happening. The lamp is a symbol of the sun as well as the eye of the dalang.

A traditional wayang kulit performance begins after dark. 

The first of the three phases, in which the characters are introduced and the conflict is launched, lasts until midnight.

The battles and intrigues of the second phase are about three hours.

 The third phase of reconciliation and friendship is finished at dawn.

Wayang shadow plays are usually tales from the two major Hindu epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata. The puppet master contextualizes stories from the plays, making them relevant to current community, national or global issues. Gamelan players respond to the direction of the Dalang.



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