If you’ve ever wanted to step into another world — one filled with shimmering metallic melodies, hypnotic rhythms, and centuries-old movement traditions, this fall in Buffalo offers a rare chance to ...
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) epic adventure, ever ...
In a program titled Mebarung! — a Balinese term for a sort of “battle of the bands” between gamelan ensembles — the Bates Gamelan Orchestra welcomes the Massachusetts group Gamelan Galak Tika for a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra, a student ensemble that plays music of Indonesia, and special guest artists perform Lou Harrison’s remarkable Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese ...
Students, staff, and faculty from Harvard, as well as musicians from around the Boston area, convene every Thursday to sit shoeless on square blue cushions before large contraptions of wood and metal.
Exposure to this exotic culture produced a “javaphilia” – a fascination for the music and dance of Java. That long-lasting allure, and how the music had been transformed, could be seen nearly 100 ...
I learned how to listen to gamelan in the womb. Quite literally, in fact; my mother, an American musician and ethnomusicologist, would play Balinese gamelan when she was pregnant with me, sitting ...
With many instrumental performances, the audience was able to get a glimpse of both Japanese and Balinese culture.
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, ...