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If you happen to visit Bogor in West Java and you are looking for a different kind of experience in the rainy city, a trip to a 230-year-old gamelan workshop would be an interesting addition to your ...

Sparks danced wildly as they jumped out of the smoldering furnace in the Sumber Gongso workshop in Wirun village, Central Java. Nearby, a group of men alternately hit a bronze slab using wooden ...

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Gamelan, the term for a traditional musical ensemble in Indonesia, typically refers to a percussion orchestra composed predominantly of tuned gongs of various types and metal-keyed instruments. The ...

Gamelan, the indigenous music of Java and Bali, remains a minority taste in Vancouver. Yet over time our three major gamelan ensembles have exerted a strong, if covert, influence on contemporary music ...

- GONG! The Gamelan Festival, SFU Woodward's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre May 18-20. Gamelan Gita Asmara, May 18 - 19, 8 p.m. Contemporary Music for Javanese ...

What do gongs, xylophones, funny hats, music students and a world-class Indonesian vocalist have in common? They are elements of an ensemble — music professor Henry Spiller's new "gamelan" ensemble, ...

There's a charming engraving in the British museum of music being made in Java 400 years ago. Three men armed with soft mallets are belabouring rows of gongs arranged in an open-sided square, with the ...

No one listens to classical gamelan music for the first time and thinks, “I’ve heard something like this before.” There’s nothing like it. A gamelan is a classical Indonesian orchestra anchored by ...