Gamelan Howard, who composed Disney's 2001 feature film "", chose Gamelan for the musical theme of the Atlanteans. Loops of gamelan music appear in electronic music. An early example is the Texas band Drain's album "Offspeed and In There", which contains two tracks where trip-hop beats are matched with gamelan loops from Java and Bali and recent popular examples include the Sofa Surfers' piece "Gamelan", or "EXEC_PURGER/.#AURICA extracting", a song sung by Haruka Shimotsuki as part of the "" soundtracks. Gamelan influences can also be heard in the 2004 award-winning pop song, "Pulangkan", a theme from the gamelan-cultural related film "Pontianak
Gamelan notation Gamelan notation Notation plays a relatively minor role in the oral traditions of Indonesian gamelan but, in Java and Bali, several systems of gamelan notation were devised beginning at the end of the 19th century, initially for archival purposes. Kepatihan is a type of cipher musical notation that was devised for notation of the Indonesian gamelan. The system was devised around 1900 at the "Kepatihan" (the Grand Vizier's compound) in Surakarta, and was based upon the Galin-Paris-Chevé system, imported in the nineteenth century by Christian missionaries to allow the notation of hymns. It superseded several other notation systems of Javanese