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 ...

Buffalo is known for a lot of things, but were you aware that it’s known as one of the epicenters of gamelan (pronounced ga · muh · lon, with an initial soft ‘A’) music, outside of Indonesia? It’s an ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Dozens of people gathered in South Philly on Saturday at the Gamelan Gita Santi’s ...

Patrick Alonzo Conway (foreground), director of Kansas City's Gamelan Genta Kasturi, with Alan Winkler. Western audiences have long been fascinated in the Balinese art form of gamelan, which honors ...

In all of the U.S., there are only a few dozen sets of instruments that qualify as gamelan ensembles – the collections of gongs and other tuned percussion instruments needed to play this form of music ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - What do you get when you cross a cyborg with a set of ancient Indonesian musical instruments? GamelaTron, of course. A love for music and a fascination for robotics prompted ...

Date and Time: November 17th at 7:30 p.m. Location: Madsen Recital Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, BYU BYU’s Balinese percussion orchestra, Gamelan Bintang Wahyu, will perform on November 17th at 7:30 ...

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 ...

Feb. 22—The music of the Sundanese people of the Indonesian island of Java is coming to Greensburg, courtesy of the University Gamelan of the University of Pittsburgh. The ensemble will play a free ...

A program on the Tatag Gamelan is set for the National Music Museum, 414 E. Clark St., Vermillion, on Friday, March 13, beginning at noon, as part of the “NMM ...

Americans tend to believe that Walt Disney’s Snow White, from 1937, was the first animated film. But that honor actually goes to The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the earliest surviving animated ...