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*above: the cover of Trabajo's *Gamelan to the Love God Gamelan is a centuries-old, percussion-based style of traditional music from Southeast Asia. Members of a gamelan ensemble play bronze or bamboo ...

Founder of Gangsapura Gamelan Studio Teuku Umar Ilany Teuku Iskandar, 35, (middle) played gamelan musical instruments with other instructors when met by Bernama in an exclusive interview at a creative ...

Electronic Gamelan, or e-gamelan, is the name of an iOS app that has been created by students and lecturers of the University of Dian Nuswantoro (Udinus) Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. The app ...

When I moved back to Buffalo from Central Java in 2013, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with what I’d learned there. I’d spent two years on a Darmasiswa scholarship in the village of Karagan, in ...

A gamelan is a group of musical instruments — ones steeped in thousands of years of Javanese and Balinese tradition and built and tuned as a unified harmonic ensemble. Each gamelan is unique, and ...

In the 1960's, composer Terry Riley ushered in the minimalist music movement with his revolutionary classic "In C." The 42-minute, multi-layered, poly-metric mix of interlocking repetitive patterns ...

On 15 December 2021 evening Jakarta time, the news of Gamelan inscription on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage circulated fast. It sparked joys among high officials and ...

The gamelan, a collection of traditional Javanese percussive instruments, has been skirting the periphery of our musical landscape for more than two decades now, and UCC professor of music Mel Mercier ...

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 ...