{"id":4369,"date":"2015-11-02T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T23:48:36","slug":"alves-releases-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2015\/11\/02\/alves-releases-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Alves Releases New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grammy-nominated music Professor Bill Alves has composed a new collection of music with the Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan, now available at <a href=\"http:\/\/microfestrecords.com\/guitars-and-gamelan\/\">MicroFest Records<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Guitars-Gamelan-Bill-Alves\/dp\/B013CSHTA0\/\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itun.es\/us\/gkNQ-\">iTunes<\/a> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billalves.com\/GuitarsGamelanCD.html\"><em>Guitars &amp; Gamelan<\/em><\/a> showcases a variety of electric and acoustic guitar work over a broad collective of instruments, offering a unique blend of Eastern and Western music that spans a wide array of soundscapes. Formed by Alves in 2000, the HMC American Gamelan is an ensemble that uses traditional Javanese instruments to play Western music. Instruments include those found in a traditional Indonesian orchestra, or gamelan, such as gongs and metallophones, which are similar to xylophones. <em>Guitars &amp; Gamelan<\/em> has been featured on several radio programs, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/american-gamelan-music-alves\/\">WNYC&#8217;s New Sounds<\/a>, WORT&#8217;s RTQE and KPFK\u2019s Global Village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this recording, the HMC American Gamelan, which includes five Harvey Mudd students and three faculty members, performs with Grammy-winning classical guitarist John Schneider in Alves\u2019 Concerto for Guitar and Gamelan. Alves also collaborated with the Balinese gamelan of UC Santa Cruz, which he paired with the explosive sound of two electric guitars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt seemed like a natural fit,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re both \u2018heavy metal\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intricate Indonesian rhythms and electric guitars also feature in a work recorded by HMC\u2019s Electronic Music Ensemble\u2014which features six Harvey Mudd students\u2014as well as in another piece Alves composed for the Los Angeles Electric 8, an octet of electric guitars. The bell-like sonorities of the HMC American Gamelan will be on display April 24 in Harvey Mudd\u2019s Drinkward Recital Hall as a part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/events\/hmc-concert-series-microfest\/\">MicroFest<\/a>, the Southern California festival of music in nonstandard tunings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently professor of music and chair of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts, Alves joined the Harvey Mudd faculty in 1995. A composer, writer and video artist, he has written extensively for conventional acoustic instruments, non-Western instruments and electronic media, often integrated with abstract animation. Previous recordings featuring the HMC American gamelan include <em>Imbal-Imbalan<\/em>, <em>Mystic Canyon<\/em>, and a DVD of his video works, <em>Celestial Dance<\/em>, was published by the Kinetica Video Library. Alves is the author of the book <em>Music of the Peoples of the World<\/em>. During 1993\u20131994, he was a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellow in Indonesia, where he studied the gamelan orchestra music of Java and Bali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy-nominated music Professor Bill Alves has composed a new collection of music with the Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hsa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12938,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/12938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}