Stainless Gamelan Theatre of Eternal Music. Stainless Gamelan John Cale: Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume 3, Stainless Gamelan or simply Stainless Gamelan (and sometimes incorrectly "Stainless "Steel" Gamelan", after the first track on the album) is an album by John Cale, better known for his work as the violist and founding member of the Velvet Underground. It is the fourth and final album in a loose anthology released by the independent label Table of the Elements. It follows "Sun Blindness Music", "Day Of Niagara" and "Dream Interpretation". "Stainless Gamelan", along with the other albums in the trilogy, involves Cale during his tenure
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