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 ...

Founder of Gangsapura Gamelan Studio Teuku Umar Ilany Teuku Iskandar, 35, (middle) played gamelan musical instruments with other instructors when met by Bernama in an exclusive interview at a creative ...

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 ...

She told SBS Indonesian about her love and joy of playing gamelan. He believes that by playing gamelan, people can also learn Indonesian. John-Cheong Holdaway argues that school teachers in Australia, ...

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 ...

Gaga over gamelan: Nicholas (seated, centre) playing gamelan with his students during a performance at an Orang Asli village in Iskandar Puteri, Johor. JOHOR BARU: During the day, B. Nicholas works as ...

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 ...

Legend has it that when the French classical composer Claude Debussy first encountered Javanese gamelan at the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, he was utterly entranced, returning again and again to hear ...

A group of Year 5 students from Sevenoaks Primary School have been experiencing the mystical sounds of the Indonesian gamelan, as part of an educational workshop held by Sevenoaks School. The gamelan ...

Buffalo Gamelan Club (BGC) has come a long way since core member Matt Dunning first set out to establish the program in Buffalo back in 2015 (see here). At the time, Dunning was trying to raise money ...

‘I hope our studio can become a centre for traditional music that meets the needs of heritage enthusiasts from various segments of society,’ says Teuku Umar Ilany. Photo: Bernama Gangsapura Gamelan ...