Album lore

Michael Tenzer’s Let Others Name You, released in 2009 on New World Records, presents a suite of five compositions that reflect his dual identity as a gamelan practitioner and a musicologist. The album includes pieces such as "Unstable Center" and the paired "Invention and Etude," works that engage with gamelan traditions while exploring contemporary compositional methods. Tenzer’s background in ethnomusicology informs these pieces, which balance intricate rhythmic interplay with a keen structural clarity.Recorded with various artists skilled in both traditional and modern approaches, the album occupies a niche intersection of world music and academic inquiry. Its modest track count invites attentive listening, revealing layers of texture and subtlety characteristic of gamelan’s percussive resonance. Let Others Name You stands as a thoughtful artifact for those interested in how gamelan idioms can be refracted through a modern compositional lens.

Album lore

Michael Tenzer’s Let Others Name You, released in 2009 on New World Records, presents a suite of five compositions that reflect his dual identity as a gamelan practitioner and a musicologist. The album includes pieces such as "Unstable Center" and the paired "Invention and Etude," works that engage with gamelan traditions while exploring contemporary compositional methods. Tenzer’s background in ethnomusicology informs these pieces, which balance intricate rhythmic interplay with a keen structural clarity.Recorded with various artists skilled in both traditional and modern approaches, the album occupies a niche intersection of world music and academic inquiry. Its modest track count invites attentive listening, revealing layers of texture and subtlety characteristic of gamelan’s percussive resonance. Let Others Name You stands as a thoughtful artifact for those interested in how gamelan idioms can be refracted through a modern compositional lens.