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 ...

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 ...

James Howe '23 had never considered himself a musical person, but he wanted his college experience to be about stepping outside his comfort zone. After taking a crash course in the gamelan as part of ...

A gamelan is a group of musical instruments — ones steeped in thousands of years of Javanese and Balinese tradition and built and tuned as a unified harmonic ensemble. Each gamelan is unique, and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sinta Penyami Storms performs the Tari Cendrawasih, the Birds of Paradise dance. (Emily Neil/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover?

New Yorkers will descend onto Brooklyn Heights on Saturday night to experience a special evening of music, witnessing the United States’ largest gamelan – a traditional Indonesian percussion ensemble.

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 ...

Gongs, drums and a variety of melodic percussion instruments probably unfamiliar to many Smithies will take center stage at Earle Recital Hall (in the basement of Sage) on Wednesday, April 20, for a ...

Plainfield may well be the Javanese gamelan capital of the western world, and certainly of the United States. It all began in the 1960s when Dennis Murphy built the first gamelan in the world outside ...