video game music is not as morally neutral as anyone would like to think by the way. can you count how many times gamelan has been used in music for crazed cultish villains and their evil ritualistic matters. because it's definitely more than one, and regardless whether it's intentional or not, it's extremely orientalist and can do a lot to inform a player's mental associations with indonesian music and any music that falls outside of the western-centric A440 12 tone equal temperament






















