The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangement of Petrushka ...

Wayang Kulit, an Indonesian form of shadow puppetry, holds the audience’s attention with riveting storylines executed masterfully by the dhalang, or puppeteer. The puppets are made of buffalo hide and ...

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 ...

High on the slopes of Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, villagers stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a front yard to watch a ceremony called Jathilan. A live gamelan band ...

The human journey leaves behind Malaysia, a sophisticated multilingual hub, and arrives at present-day Indonesia, the world's largest archipelagic nation and home to the most intense popular energy in ...

The musicological study of Bali that Canadian-US composer Colin McPhee and his colleague Lou Harrison undertook during the 1930s is usually seen as critical in bringing gamelan to the West. However, ...

The Smith Department of Music presents a 30th Anniversary concert of the Smith Gamelan on Saturday, April 18 in the Conference Center from 4-6 and 7-9 pm. The Smith gamelan community, under the ...

Abstract: This study was conducted aiming to develop gamelan traditional musical instrument-virtual reality based as an interactive and innovative learning media. The method applied was Research and ...

As the lights dimmed at the Music Arts Center Concert Hall, accomplished Indonesian composer Peni Candra Rini took to the stage, sitting in front of the crowd, as the calm, meditative sound of bronze ...

Are you looking for something culturally significant to attend on Valentine’s Day? Something that can be considered a romantic setting, with live instrumental music and a dining element? If so, ...