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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Saturday December 16, Nusantara Arts a sensational Balinese music tribute will commence, produced by Buffalo based Indonesian culture non profit Nusantara Arts. The concert and performance will ...
The music of the Indonesian gamelan, with its clangorous sonorities and intricate, smoothly interlocking rhythms, has exerted its allure on countless composers and listeners over the past century. One ...
Moraine Valley Community College’s Fine and Performing Arts Center starts its 2019-20 Mainstage Series with Gamelan Cudamani Sept. 21 in the Dorothy Menker Theater. “We’re really excited to be coming ...
Agustín Oscar Rissotti's recordings of Indonesian music capture the ritual context often stripped from Western gamelan ...
When a friend introduced Wayne Vitale to Balinese music in 1979, he says it was a “no looking back moment.” “What can any musician say about being obsessed with something?” Vitale recalled of hearing ...
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 ...
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" ...