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The sounds of the traditional Indonesian orchestra known as the gamelan have enchanted Western explorers for centuries. In 1580, Francis Drake described the music in his logbook as "of a very strange ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra, a student ensemble that plays music of Indonesia, and special guest artists perform Lou Harrison’s remarkable Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese ...

I must say that I’m fascinated by this new gamelan music movement in Buffalo. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been following Matt Dunning’s (Artistic Director, Gamelan Sari Raras Irama) epic adventure, ever ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Susheela Raman’s Ghost Gamelan forges rhythmic decoration out of Indonesian gamelan. Her collaborators, contemporary ...

Susheela Raman releases her seventh album Ghost Gamalan. The songs were written in the UK but a fortuitous meeting with gamalan musicians while on holiday in Indonesia transformed the project. Raman ...