Gamelan comes from the Javanese word gamel, meaning "to strike or hammer.” Originating in Central Java, a gamelan is a set of kettle gongs, hanging bronze gongs, and xylophones on beautifully carved ...

For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

Are you looking for something culturally significant to attend on Valentine’s Day? Something that can be considered 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 ...

Exposure to this exotic culture produced a “javaphilia” – a fascination for the music and dance of Java. That long-lasting allure, and how the music had been transformed, could be seen nearly 100 ...

for the opening of a set of crates from the Indonesian island of Java. Inside were dozens of mostly percussion instruments, made as long as a century ago, comprising a complete gamelan -- Indonesian ...

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 ...

Bates is about 9,600 miles from his hometown of Surakarta, Java, but the gamelan musician and master puppeteer Darsono has found that the college was surprisingly well-prepared for his residency this ...

Inside a large room in the School of Music building on North Campus, the rhythmically timed sounds of percussion thump. It’s a soft, melodious music, and distinct from anything else one might happen ...