Who would have ever thought that Buffalo would be home to one of the most impressive sets of Javanese Gamelan instruments, and wayang kulit shadow puppets, outside of Indonesia? Thanks to a herculean ...

For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

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 ...

Gamelan comes from the Javanese word gamel, meaning "to strike or hammer.” Originating in Central Java, a gamelan is a set of kettle gongs, hanging bronze gongs, and xylophones on beautifully carved ...

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 concert at ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Gamelan Kusuma Laras presents an evening of Javanese music for the public in the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Typically lasting until late at night, audience members are intimately involved, ...

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 ...

Indonesia gave rise to one of the world’s greatest traditions of art music, its repertoire encompassing a multitude of styles and approaches — not surprising when you recall that the vast Indonesian ...

The sounds of the traditional Indonesian orchestra known as the gamelan have enchanted Western explorers for centuries. In 1580, Francis Drake described the music in his logbook as "of a very strange ...