SYNTHESIZING A JAVANESE GONG AGENG
Lydia Ayers, Andrew Horner · 2005
This paper considers the spectral properties of a Javanese Gong Ageng, the large gong used in gamelan music to mark the end of each gong cycle. The gong tone has about a dozen significant partials. The amplitude modulation of this gong is a characteristic part of its spectral evolution, and includes some synchronized frequency modulation when multiple components occur at nearly the same frequency. We have developed an additive synthesis Csound implementation for synthesizing the Gong Ageng. The model produces a tone that is very similar to the original. 1.