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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colleen Wong (left) and Adilah Junid are longtime members of contemporary gamelan troupe Rhythm in Bronze. (Muhaimin Marwan @ FMT Lifestyle) It’s hard not to feel a sense of calm when one hears the ...

The gamelan, a collection of traditional Javanese percussive instruments, has been skirting the periphery of our musical landscape for more than two decades now, and UCC professor of music Mel Mercier ...

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - As many as 140 students from the British Council learned about Indonesian arts and culture and played the gamelan and singing the Manyar Sewu song accompanied by Javanese Gamelan ...

Dawn opens on calm lapping waves in the voice of Gracekelly Fulton, or GK, the frontwoman of Twin Court, who debuted their first album on Saturday afternoon at Argos Warehouse. The first track off the ...

Lucy Duran begins a two-programme exploration of Indonesian gamelan music. In this programme she travels east through Java discovering the south coast and music of the royal court. Show more Lucy ...

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A ferocious dragon spirit stood near the entrance to Washington National Cathedral, near where a Balinese gamelan, a traditional percussion ensemble from Indonesia, was assembling. At the other end of ...