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 ...

Gamelan: The term gamelan refers to musical ensembles from the islands of Java and Bali in the Republic of Indonesia, and by extension to the music that is played on them. Javanese gamelan consists ...

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 ...

Gamelan Kusuma Laras presents an evening of Javanese music for the public in the klenengan format. An informal music event in Java, a klenèngan features musicians who gather for a kind of jam session, ...

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 ...

Gamelan is a collection of traditional Javanese musical instruments. They are as beautiful to watch as they are to hear. There are gold colored gongs, metallophones, drums and hybrid drum-cymbals and ...

In particular, they studied the 'bonang', an instrument from the Javanese gamelan built from a collection of small gongs. "When we use instruments like the bonang, Pythagoras's special numbers go out ...

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This program is co-sponsored by the American Indonesian Cultural and Educational Foundation. Scroll down to read full program notes. Join us for a concert of Javanese gamelan compositions composed by ...

Ria Soemardjo, with Australian and Indonesian cultural backgrounds, began learning about gamelan and Javanese songs in her childhood through her father. From this experience, she went on to deepen her ...

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW-TV) — The group of musical performers is known as Sari Raras Irama. According to the founder Matt Dunning it means "the melodic essence of time." Matt put together this unique band ...