a chamber music ensemble, in residence at Queens College, in New York City. The ensemble plays contemporary work written for a gamelan orchestra, made up of Balinese instruments that might be ...

You don’t need to learn Javanese, but part of gamelan is an immersion in the legacies and spirit of the music and its instruments. Mel Mercier set up the Irish Gamelan Orchestra at University ...

“The gamelan is a unique traditional music which brings together different instruments. “The sound differs from that of orchestras,” said Fang, who also plays the piano, violin ...

No experience necessary — that's what one music professor wants every student to know as she welcomes them into UD’s gamelan ensemble, which has 75 instruments and a thousand-year-old tradition. Since ...

The instruments of the NCH Gamelan Orchestra There are other significant differences, like the fact that gamelan doesn’t use western music notation, but it has its own system of numbers and ...

It was a joyous cacophony — a melding of metallophones, other percussive instruments ... are more than 100 gamelan groups in the United States. Some perform the music and dance styles that ...

Inside the PAX center, everyone from children to adults participated in the gamelan, a traditional Indonesian orchestra made up of percussion instruments ... College who has studied traditional ...

UNC Gamelan Nyai Saraswati ensemble performs Javanese Gamelan music, a Southeast Asian classical ... to come on stage and perform with angklung instruments that were donated by the Indonesian ...

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 ...

The music is La Koro Sutro by Lou Harrison ... personal style based on Asian musical aesthetics, using unfamiliar instruments, unusual tuning systems, and discernible melodies.

The National Music Museum has one of the ... (Laughter) We're so lucky. REMBERT: This gamelan is 1 of more than 14,000 instruments in the museum's collection. It's a treat for professional ...