S Brunt

‘Click, Play and Save’: The iGamelan as a Tool for Music-culture Sustainability

This article explores the potential for web-based interactive music resources to represent and sustain music-culture heritage via digital means. Our focus is the University of Otago’s virtual Indonesian gamelan (iGamelan): an immersive online resource featuring interactive musical instruments, an audio-video gallery, and information archive. Designed in 2010–2011 for use within the tertiary education context, the iGamelan stands alone as an innovative learning/teaching tool, and also enhances real-life instructional sessions with the University’s pelog/slendro Central Javanese gamelan. This article illuminates the pitfalls and achievements of the iGamelan project and, at a broader level, demonstrates how contemporary technology can help sustain active music-making cultures.

Making Music in Japan's Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene

Making Music in Japans Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene Jennifer Milioto Matsue New York, Routledge, 2008 (reissued 2011) 172 pp., ISBN 978-0-4159-6152-3 (£80.00 hardback, £22.50 paperback) M...