I must say that I’m fascinated by this new gamelan music movement in Buffalo. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been following Matt Dunning’s (Artistic Director, Gamelan Sari Raras Irama ...

Read more at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/12/music-of-the-tropics-balinese-drum-troupe-performs-at-the-sackler/ Bells and gongs are the sounds ...

B. Nicholas’ keen interest in Malay gamelan, a traditional form of music, drove him to not only master the artform but also inspired him to pass on his knowledge to a younger generation of ...

It was Malay gamelan that brought them together, and now Nur Diyana Nadirah and Teuku Umar Ilany are determined to spread the love for this traditional art form. Nur Diyana, 26, was first ...

“This is the first major exhibition of Nusantara Arts Javanese Gamelan music since before Covid began, and we are ecstatic to come back in style, with bronze instruments, new ...

Our four non-Western music ensembles—open to both music majors and non-music majors—explore West African Highlife, Japanese, Gamelan and Latin American traditions. Each ensemble presents one public ...

Gamelan musical traditions originate in the ... to keep an open mind to new musical experiences, even for seasoned music-lovers. "The best predictor of liking a piece of music is your previous ...

Curious about many different types of music, in the 1970s Reich travelled to Seattle to study the Balinese gamelan and to Ghana, to study West African drumming – and his own piece, Drumming ...