Going, going gong, the gamelan strikes a chord with Year 9 musicians. Nick Morrison reports There’s a saying in Java: “It’s not official until the gong is hung.” As the rough equivalent of the fat ...

The UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology in the Herb Alpert School of Music will offer a Spring 2018 course on the music of the Central Javanese gamelan, funded by the Indonesian Studies Program under ...

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 ...

Experience the enchanting world of Javanese gamelan music and dance with Joko Sutrisno and Tri Martodikromo. Joko, an acclaimed performer, composer, and educator, and Tri, a celebrated dancer of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Indonesia gave rise to one of the world’s greatest traditions of art music, its repertoire encompassing a multitude of styles and approaches — not surprising when you recall that the vast Indonesian ...