The Shadow Puppet show is always accompanied by a set of Gamelan music and clanging tools or fiddle. Art famed shadow puppets more than 1000 years before in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. In Malaysia, there are several types including shadow puppets Malay, Kelantan puppets, Javanese puppets, and Purwo puppets, in which there are differences in each type of shadow puppet mainly in story and character.
Communications tool
In principle, all types of leather puppets in Malaysia affect Java or Southern Thailand Pattani, but the development is causing shadow puppets changes and adjustments following the reception and the local community context. The case holds a shadow puppet's first communication tool in addition to the public art proposal. The flow of the story and character sculptures still showed the originality and influence of origin but on scenes antics that are often located along with the shadow puppet story, only in terms of language elements and events described. Therefore, shadow puppets are enjoyed in two places and both have an important role.
Accompaniment
The shadow puppet offers music, conversation, and movement. Normally during the sculptures, all the music is stopped. During the sculpture's speech, little movement should be done through the movement of the hand joints of are talking statue. Conversely, if the puppet statue was moved in the course of the storyline, the musical accompaniment immediately helps foster the atmosphere of the movement. Dalang is the most important person in the performing arts and his offerings are shadow puppets. He sat behind the stage curtain, moving the character puppets and giving voice to different sound patterns to follow the playable character. The show helped mastermind Handyman to provide a puppet character-based storyline that would be submitted by the puppeteer. Kasah wood is a type of instrument used to produce impression sounds during fight scenes. The puppet sculpture stands on the banana trunk, generating the character from the light.