Songlines' Gamelan Alligator Joy Releases Penumbra, Its First Album In Fifteen Years. Posted in “Recording” column. Published: June 16, 2025 @ All About Jazz ...

The gamelan is an orchestra of bronze gongs and metallophones, some deep and loud, some small and delicate, plus a few softer instruments such as the bamboo flute (suling) and the wooden xylophone ...

Singer and instrumentalist in Gamelan DanAnda Ria Soemardjo, said that ‘Nglayang’, one of the songs in the album, is particularly touching for her. Ria, who is of Indonesia heritage, has ...

And the word “gamelan” itself literally means “orchestra.” There are four or five kinds of gamelan geographically. Bali has a very unique style of it all across the island, but it’s not the same music ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are more than 100 gamelan groups in the United States. Some perform the music and dance styles that developed on the Indonesian island on Bali; others take up the Javanese or Sundanese forms.

“Wyoga” has a double meaning, indicating both “Wyoming Gamelan” and “meditation on the beauty of the full moon.” This type of Balinese gamelan is called semar pegulingan, a particularly full and ...

I’d love to have a go on one There’s no such thing, I’m afraid. Gamelan is the term for a collection of instruments, mainly bronze gongs and metallophones, played as an ensemble.