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\n\t\t\tPublisher:<\/b> Ember Lab\n\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\t\t\tDeveloper:<\/b> Ember Lab\n\t\t<\/div>\n
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\n\t\t\tPlatform:<\/b> PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

One of the most striking elements of Kena: Bridge of Spirits is its soundtrack, which features the music of traditional Balinese musicians in new compositions. It\u2019s the result of a collaboration between composer Jason Gallaty and the ensemble group Gamelan \u00c7udamani. We talked to Jason, as well as Gamelan \u00c7udamani founding director Dewa Putu Berata and associate director Emiko Saraswati to learn how this musical partnership came to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gallaty says that he was listening to \u00c7udamani\u2019s music for inspiration, so he decided to see if they would be interested in working together on Kena\u2019s soundtrack. \u201cI felt like with something that the music comes originally from Bali and Indonesia and all these instruments come from Bali and Indonesia, I wanted to approach it respectfully and asked to work with them.\u201d He sent them an email, and hoped for the best.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be totally honest, I told the guys this, but my first reaction was like, \u2018No,\u2019\u201d Saraswati recalls. \u201cNo Gamelan<\/a> in video games. Dewa and I are traditional artists, right, so this gets into more complex problems, but sometimes there\u2019s a sense from traditional artists that things like video games are things that we\u2019re working against all the time.\u201d She says that Gallaty\u2019s email was persuasive, however, so she agreed to talk to him on the phone and hear him out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was like, \u2018Oh wait, this kind of sounds cool.\u2019 I very, very quickly realized that I had my own prejudice that I was working with, and that I needed to allow this team to explain what they were doing,\u201d Saraswati says. \u201cThe themes are so beautiful and so resonant with our culture and our values and philosophy. And you know, it\u2019s exciting to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a fruitful recording session in California, Gallaty and Ember Lab\u2019s chief creative officer Mike Grier went to Bali for a more in-depth series of sessions. The bamboo instruments are too large to easily transport internationally, and that\u2019s where the bulk of the musicians are located, so it made sense to make the trip. \u201cIt was my inspiration, but I wanted to make sure that people were aware that this was cultural music at its heart that I was being inspired by, and I wanted that platform to be shared,\u201d Gallaty says. \u201cThings developed from there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Berata was able to create original compositions based on footage of the game in action or from descriptions of the moments or feelings that Gallaty wanted conveyed musically. After his musicians created new songs, Gallaty would then take those and use them for his own compositions. Working closely with the traditional musicians allowed the team at Ember Lab to avoid pitfalls that other game developers have fallen into, such as when The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time inadvertently incorporated Islamic prayers into one of its songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cJason had samples of beautiful music that was sacred music, and we were like, \u2018Uh, we can\u2019t use that piece,\u2019 so then Dewa would make a piece that had the same feeling to it but it wasn\u2019t the sacred piece that would be really inappropriate for a video game,\u201d Saraswati says. \u201cIt was really cool to see that kind of thing happen, where it\u2019s actually something that\u2019s very new that was composed last year, but it has that same sense of spiritual power and mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty common thing in Western music, where they go in and think, \u2018Oh, this is a really cool sound from this culture,\u2019 but to them it\u2019s just a sound,\u201d Gallaty adds. \u201cI\u2019ve learned so much from this collaboration. It\u2019s really not just a sound at all. It\u2019s instrumental to the spiritual nature of the Gamelan music. The way that Gamelan is treated, these instruments are treated like people. They\u2019re respected like people; you do not step over an instrument. It\u2019s like if you were having a play date with another parent and you stepped over their child. You wouldn\u2019t do that. You would never step over a child. That\u2019s the way the instruments are treated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallaty says the experience of collaborating with Berata and the rest of the musicians was incredibly rewarding. Even though she wasn\u2019t initially hot on the idea, Saraswati ended up being just as passionate and happy with the results. \u201cSo many things in the media or culture that we see today have so little to do with what our own family values are or what our cultural values are or what our parents have taught us,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was exciting to see a project, and to be honest, we didn\u2019t realize that it was going to be this big. Now my kids are super excited, and everyone in \u00c7udamani is really excited.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really a life-changing experience,\u201d Grier says, reflecting on the collaboration. \u201cI don\u2019t want to just throw that around, but I think it was for me. It really opened my eyes to how other people around the world are doing stuff that\u2019s similar to what we\u2019re trying to do, in their own way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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