On Sunday afternoons, the clang of traditional Indonesian percussion music known as gamelan wafts down the street, audible on the approach to the Indonesian Consulate on Manhattan's east side. Gamelan ...

THE floors of New York City’s music halls attain various states of cleanliness. Few ensembles are in a better position to observe them up close than the Balinese ensemble Gamelan Dharma Swara. In an ...

Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers, that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of ...

We´re betting that most people haven´t even heard of the Balinese Gamelan - it´s an ensemble of 25 instruments - but that hasn´t deterred Soniccouture from releasing a 24-bit/96kHz sampled version for ...

Beginning tonight and continuing through May, folks can get their Indonesian music on during the Musical Instrument Museum’s Balinese Gamelan Workshop led by MIM curatorial assistant Colin Pearson. A ...

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 ...

Legend has it that when the French classical composer Claude Debussy first encountered Javanese gamelan at the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, he was utterly entranced, returning again and again to hear ...

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 ...

The original version of this story stated that Tyler Yamin was the only person who knew how to play "Semar Pegulingan." In fact, Yamin was the only person who knew how to play "Semar Pegulingan" ...