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For many, the shimmering, hypnotic tones of the gamelan are intimately tied to the vibrant culture of Indonesia.
Gamelan DanAnda, a Melbourne-based gamelan group, has released a collaboration album with jazz fusion band Firetail, titled 'Anglayang'.
Experience the vibrant sounds of contemporary gamelan music as Gamelan Yowana Sari and the I/O Ensemble perform new compositions at The Clark Art Institute.
The National Music Museum offered public lessons Saturday on playing Gamelan, an Indonesian percussion instrument. A large crowd turned out for Discovery Saturday at the museum in Vermillion, SD.
Let us know! Dozens of people gathered in South Philly on Saturday at the Gamelan Gita Santi’s fall concert and food pop-up celebrating the city’s Indonesian community. Inside the PAX center, everyone ...
Sixteen years ago MacLachlan, an ethnomusicologist, began teaching students how to perform this venerable musical tradition from Indonesia that can include dozens of individual instruments. MacLachlan ...
One of the traditional musical instruments from West Java, the angklung has now been recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage.
This program is co-sponsored by the American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation. Scroll down to read full program notes. Join us for a concert of Javanese gamelan compositions composed by ...
Gamelan Candra Wyoga, the University of Wyoming’s Balinese music ensemble, will perform music and dance in a concert Sunday, May 5, at 1 p.m. in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts recital ...
Gamelan instruments range from large, hanging bronze gongs nearly a yard in width (called gong ageng) to rebabs (a bowed string instrument) and keyed percussion instruments, such as wooden xylophones.
Throughout its 39-year existence, Gamelan Kusuma Laras has mesmerized audiences with its renditions of traditional Javanese music on instruments created for the Indonesia Pavilion at the 1964-65 ...