Audio Selection:
The audio clip captures a short performance of a relatively austere “opening” piece. The support drums simply keep a fast steady pulse while the player of the large fromkasi provides periodic short rhythmic outbursts. Occasionally the atumpan player adds a two-tone rhythmic utterance or cuts across the support beat in an interesting way. The gongon simply keeps its short timeline pattern sounding throughout.
Video Selection:
Most of the video clip is dedicated to the same performance of this opening piece. For a moment, an individual is focused on as he moves in a way appropriate to the music. The clip ends with an excerpt from another, far more lively piece and the spontaneous movement it elicits.
Performance Forces:
| gongon | large, single, clapperless metal bell struck with a stick; time-keeping instrument |
| atumpan | a pair of large single-headed, goblet-shaped tubular drums struck with a pair of beaters by a single drummer; lead drum |
| eguankoba | single-headed tubular drum, barrel-shaped, struck with two stick beaters; supporting rhythm instrument |
| ansaba | single-headed tubular drum, footed, struck with two straight sticks; supporting rhythm instrument |
| fromkasi | large barrel-shaped, single-headed tubular drum, struck with two L-shaped stick beaters or occasionally with one stick beater and one open hand; rhythmic instrument |