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.

John-Cheong Holdaway, one of the organizing committee, is a musician, creative producer, and economist. She told SBS Indonesian about her love and joy of playing gamelan. He believes that by playing ...

Gamelan Yowana Sari is a Balinese art ensemble in residence at the Aaron Copland School of Music at CUNY Queens College made up of students, alumni, faculty, and community patrons – all guided by GYS ...

*above: the cover of Trabajo's *Gamelan to the Love God Gamelan is a centuries-old, percussion-based style of traditional music from Southeast Asia. Members of a gamelan ensemble play bronze or bamboo ...

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 ...

Colleen Wong (left) and Adilah Junid are longtime members of contemporary gamelan troupe Rhythm in Bronze. (Muhaimin Marwan @ FMT Lifestyle) It’s hard not to feel a sense of calm when one hears the ...

I recently stumbled upon a sonic experiment in cross-cultural collaboration that made me rethink the role traditional art forms can play in new music. On the last day of Playfreely, an annual festival ...

Gaga over gamelan: Nicholas (seated, centre) playing gamelan with his students during a performance at an Orang Asli village in Iskandar Puteri, Johor. JOHOR BARU: During the day, B. Nicholas works as ...

Buffalo Gamelan Club (BGC) has come a long way since core member Matt Dunning first set out to establish the program in Buffalo back in 2015 (see here). At the time, Dunning was trying to raise money ...

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 ...