With many instrumental performances, the audience was able to get a glimpse of both Japanese and Balinese culture.

No one listens to classical gamelan music for the first time and thinks, “I’ve heard something like this before.” There’s nothing like it. A gamelan is a classical Indonesian orchestra anchored by ...

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 ...

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He loved the fiery side of gamelan music, filled with racing beats and intricate rhythms. To him, the gamelan was like a feisty child in broad daylight: playful, spontaneous and loud, a contrast to ...

Matt Dunning (Artistic Director Gamelan Sari Raras Irama) is at it again. Back in January, I wrote about how he and his ensemble of Gamelan instrument players were turning Buffalo into a hotbed for ...

As evident from the ‘Nglayang’ song snippet, the music in this album is rich in influences, beyond Balinese gamelan and jazz. This is partly due to Firetail itself having members hailing from various ...

What do gongs, xylophones, funny hats, music students and a world-class Indonesian vocalist have in common? They are elements of an ensemble — music professor Henry Spiller's new "gamelan" ensemble, ...

Though he is the youngest member of the Grateful Deads classic lineup, Bob Weir has gradually aged into a stately role as unofficial voice of the Dead Universe. So it makes sense that since Jerry ...

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Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Correction appended: This story listed the time of the “Sinta Ablaze” concert as 2 p.m. on Sunday.

In 1941, the Canadian composer Colin McPhee, just back from Bali, and the young English composer Benjamin Britten, a pacifist who had come to America to avoid serving in the British army, got together ...