How a few iron instruments and a community of curious neighbors built something none of us expected Author: Matt Dunning, Executive Director Nusantara Arts and Artistic Director Gamelan Sari Raras ...

The musicological study of Bali that Canadian-US composer Colin McPhee and his colleague Lou Harrison undertook during the 1930s is usually seen as critical in bringing gamelan to the West. However, ...

The Smith Department of Music presents a 30th Anniversary concert of the Smith Gamelan on Saturday, April 18 in the Conference Center from 4-6 and 7-9 pm. The Smith gamelan community, under the ...

As the lights dimmed at the Music Arts Center Concert Hall, accomplished Indonesian composer Peni Candra Rini took to the stage, sitting in front of the crowd, as the calm, meditative sound of bronze ...

Gamelan Kusuma Laras will present an evening of Javanese music for the public in the klenengan format. An informal music event in Java, a klenèngan features musicians who gather for a kind of jam ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The second of the two major Muslim festivals, Eid al-Adha, invites unique celebrations across Nusantara, blending the religious occasion with inherited cultural values. From Grebeg ...

For many, the shimmering, hypnotic tones of the gamelan are intimately tied to the vibrant culture of Indonesia. But thanks to an extraordinary gift from the Sultan of Yogyakarta in 2014, Ireland has ...

Gamelan DanAnda, a Melbourne-based gamelan group, has released a collaboration album with jazz fusion band Firetail, titled 'Anglayang'. As evident from the ‘Nglayang’ song snippet, the music in this ...

For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Most groups that play gamelan, an Indonesian form of music, are playing traditional work. "But that's not what we do," said Michael Lipsey, in an interview with The Eagle. In 2011, ...

No experience necessary — that's what one music professor wants every student to know as she welcomes them into UD’s gamelan ensemble, which has 75 instruments and a thousand-year-old tradition. Since ...