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When I moved back to Buffalo from Central Java in 2013, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with what I’d learned there. I’d spent two years on a Darmasiswa scholarship in the village of Karagan, in ...

Lucy Duran begins a two-programme exploration of Indonesian gamelan music. In this programme she travels east through Java discovering the south coast and music of the royal court. Show more Lucy ...

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, I’m afraid.

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The gamelan, a collection of traditional Javanese percussive instruments, has been skirting the periphery of our musical landscape for more than two decades now, and UCC professor of music Mel Mercier ...

Gamelan Kusuma Laras presents an evening of Javanese music for the public in the klenengan format. An informal music event in Java, a klenèngan features musicians who gather for a kind of jam session, ...

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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 ...