Gamelan (Lasalle College of the Arts)

During his Deanship of the Faculty of Performing Arts at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore from 1999 to 2003, Robert Casteels conducted research on the College’s gamelan. Contrary to the gamelan way of octaviating ad libitum, he established the importance of pitch class for the composition of his Berlayar cycle. This led him to establish a full Pelog (and Slendro) chart of all the gamelan instruments that were available at LASALLE in the 1990s.