Join us at the Roundhouse to celebrate the release of Gamelan Bike Bike's new album Teka-Teki!

The ensemble will perform its new music for gamelan, featuring kaleidoscopic compositions by Emon Subandi, Ryan Swaryandana, and Robyn Jacob, among others. Special guest performers include I Putu Gede Sukaryana (Balot), Srikandi Indonesia, Gamelan Trike Trike, and Gamelan Kembang Telang!

*free pre-concert workshop on the Balinese art of Kecak. No RSVP required. The workshop will be facilitated by guest artist I Putu Gede Sukaryana (Balot), in the Exhibition Hall of the Roundhouse, from 6:30 to 7pm. 

*Bali Bites Food Truck onsite from 6:00 to 8:30pm

About the Artists

Gamelan Bike Bike draws its musical inspiration from Bali, Indonesia and its raw materials from the scrap metal bins of Vancouver. Founded as a community-based project, the ensemble brings together a diverse group of artists to materialize and animate new experimental instruments. They transformed over 100 discarded bicycle frames, along with other scrap metals, into a range of tuned metallophones and gongs that form the foundation of their sound. The ensemble is dedicated to performing new music for gamelan, including compositions from guest composers I Putu Gede Sukaryana (Balot) and I Putu Swaryandana Ichi Oka from Bali. Their forthcoming album Teka-Teki will be released by Indonesia-based label Insitu Recordings and features new commissions by composers based in Bali and Vancouver. Gamelan Bike Bike is currently based at the Hadden Park Fieldhouse as part of the Publik Secrets fieldhouse residency with the Vancouver Park Board and regularly offers workshops and performances to the community.

“Gamelan Bike Bike has proved to be a fertile environment for cross-cultural artistic innovation, presenting Indonesian music from a uniquely Vancouver perspective” (Jakarta Post)

Presented by Publik Secrets 

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The Roundhouse is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)