The Bucknell Gamelan Ensemble invites students of all majors and backgrounds to learn and perform traditional and new music of Indonesia. Each semester, members have the opportunity to develop playing ...
Read more at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/12/music-of-the-tropics-balinese-drum-troupe-performs-at-the-sackler/ Bells and gongs are the sounds ...
However, the music is not produced from traditional gamelan instruments, but from tablets. Merging traditional music with modern devices is one of the school’s ways of getting the kids excited ...
gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West. The book begins by looking ...
Suara Dance X Langen Suka collaborated to present an event full of contemporary traditional music and dance from Indonesia. Langen Suka Gamelan Music Inc. is an association focused on the ...
The work is entirely based on musical instruments found in Pacific Rim cultures, including the Javanese gamelan gongs, the Philippine patangok, the khaen from South-East Asia, the Korean kayageum, the ...
Ki Poedijono OAM (right) singing at Australia Indonesia Institute function in Melbourne, Feb 2017. He managed to inspire the love of gamelan to Australians. Source: Photo courtesy Jason Lau ...