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CULLOWHEE -- The Western Carolina University Low Tech Ensemble, will perform a free concert of Sundanese "gamelan" music with international gamelan musician Burhan Sukarma at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, ...
The March 14 program is dedicated entirely to West Javan, or Sundanese, music. Guest artists include Wahyu Roche, a virtuosic drummer, and Ening Rumbini, a dancer who specializes in “jaipongan,” a ...
He heard a gamelan ensemble led by a Santa Cruz lecturer, Undang Sumarna. Those sounds, coming at him through the classroom wall, changed his life. Soon he began studying gamelan and Sundanese music, ...
The Bates Gamelan Orchestra, conducted by Gina Fatone, performs traditional and contemporary music of West Java and Central Java, as well as new music by North American composers. A composer and ...
Gamelan Gita Asmara, May 18 - 19, 8 p.m. Contemporary Music for Javanese and Sundanese Gamelan May 20, 8 p.m. Tickets $15/$12 available at Banyen and Highlife or online at www.sfuwoodwards.ca. ...
You won't confuse Indonesian songstress Idjah Hadidjah with Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee, or any other American singer. The verse-chorus structure of her album is familiar enough, and so ...
There is the Javanese gamelan, the Sundanese gamelan and the Balinese gamelan, among others. Each of them has a different sound, scale, playing method and tools.
There are more than 100 gamelan groups in the United States. Some perform the music and dance styles that developed on the Indonesian island on Bali; others take up the Javanese or Sundanese forms.
Gamelan inspiring foreigners, ignored by locals - Fri, September 22, 2017 - The Jakarta Post. San Francisco’s Gamelan X ensemble - Courtesy of Gamelan-X. TheJakartaPost.
Dozens of people gathered in South Philly on Saturday at the Gamelan Gita Santi’s fall concert and food pop-up celebrating the city’s Indonesian community. Inside the PAX center, everyone from ...