A traditional song from this country compares a ruler’s concubines with flowers, and was recorded by Robert E. Brown for the Voyager Golden Record. Colin McPhee studied the music of a region in this country whose styles include kebyar and uses nested rhythmic structures called colotomy. Performers in one of this country’s art forms sit behind a stage made of banana trunks and can instruct musicians by striking a box with a cempala (“chem-PAH-la”). Tuning systems from this country include the pentatonic slendro and the heptatonic pélog. This country is the home of wayang puppetry, which is accompanied by an ensemble which primarily consists of metallic percussion such as the gong ageng. For 10 points, name this country, the origin of gamelan. ■END■
ANSWER: Indonesia [or Republic of Indonesia; or Republik Indonesia]
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