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 ...

WILLIAMSTOWN -- In Bali and Java, gamelan -- meaning "to hammer" -- describes a pentatonic (five-note) scale percussion or ches tra of gongs, hand drums and metal xylophones. In clarinetist/composer ...

Beginning tonight and continuing through May, folks can get their Indonesian music on during the Musical Instrument Museum’s Balinese Gamelan Workshop led by MIM curatorial assistant Colin Pearson. A ...

In a program titled Mebarung! — a Balinese term for a sort of “battle of the bands” between gamelan ensembles — the Bates Gamelan Orchestra welcomes the Massachusetts group Gamelan Galak Tika for a ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For Balinese Hindus, the music of the gamelan is a gift from the gods and performances are an offering ...

The Bates College Concert Series presents Gamelan Galak Tika, a Boston-area ensemble performing the gamelan music of Bali, Indonesia, in performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, in the Olin Arts Center ...

I learned how to listen to gamelan in the womb. Quite literally, in fact; my mother, an American musician and ethnomusicologist, would play Balinese gamelan when she was pregnant with me, sitting ...

On Saturday December 16, Nusantara Arts a sensational Balinese music tribute will commence, produced by Buffalo based Indonesian culture non profit Nusantara Arts. The concert and performance will ...

Members of Gamelan Galak Tika deliver one of the most unique performances to date at WGBH’s Fraser Performance Studio. The Cambridge-based gamelan, founded and directed by Evan Ziporyn, is ...