above: the cover of Trabajo's *Gamelan to the Love God Gamelan is a centuries-old, percussion-based style of traditional music from Southeast Asia. Members of a gamelan ensemble play bronze or ...

It was the ensemble instrumental music of gamelan, a genre that originates in the Indonesian regions of Bali and Java — a music culture that has only ever been introduced to South Dakota twice.

They are elements of an ensemble — music professor Henry Spiller's new "gamelan" ensemble, that is. The word gamelan comes from the Javanese word "gamel," meaning to strike or hammer. Gamelan music is ...

By Danielle Dowling On Mother’s Day in the main hall of the Ridgewood Presbyterian Church in Queens, a handful of members of Gamelan Dharma Swara, an ensemble that plays traditional and ...

A ferocious dragon spirit stood near the entrance to Washington National Cathedral, near where a Balinese gamelan, a traditional percussion ensemble from Indonesia, was assembling. At the other ...

Ancient, spiritual and melodic, gamelan has its roots in Java and Bali. Mel Mercier is an Irish adept. I’ve heard of the gamelan. I’d love to have a go on one There’s no such thing ...

Few ensembles are in a better position to observe them up close than the Balinese ensemble Gamelan Dharma Swara. In an October performance at the West Village club Fat Cat its musicians sat cross ...

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 ...

"A Night in Indonesia: Javanese Gamelan," will be held Saturday, March 24 at 8 p.m., with a 7 p.m. pre-concert talk. The concert will offer an experience of the full flavor (sounds, smells, tastes) of ...

Jody Diamond does not allow spectators at her weekly Gamelan rehearsals. If you come, you play. Held in the Student Organization Center at Hilles every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., Gamelan lessons take ...

suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Dozens of people gathered in South Philly on Saturday at the Gamelan Gita Santi’s fall concert and food ...

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 ...