Gamelan outside Indonesia Seni Tari Indonesia di Nederland ) plays Javanese Traditional Karawitan dan Dance. The Polish band - Warsaw Gamelan Group - is perhaps the only band in this part of Europe that plays Indonesian music. WGG specialises in music from central Java. There are two Javanese gamelans in Portugal, one in Lisbon, at Fundação do Oriente and another in Oporto at Casa da Música. Besides being used for traditional Javanese music, the gamelan at Casa da Musica has been at the centre of very innovative projects, including the development of a Robotic Gamelan. Inspired by the ideas of gamelan collective practice,
Gamelan interference beats are meant to give the listener a feeling of a god's presence or a stepping stone to a meditative state. The scale roughly approximates that of the phrygian mode of the Western major scale (E-E on the white keys of the piano), with the notes EFGBC corresponding to the note positions 12356 in the "slendro" scale used by most gamelan. As well as the non-western octave and the use of beats, Javanese gamelan uses a combination of tempo and density known as "Irama", relating how many beats on the "saron panerus" instrument there are to notes in the