The 34th annual spring concert from the UC Santa Cruz West Javanese Gamelan Ensemble features traditional and contemporary music for gamelan. Directed by Undang Sumarna, this performance welcomes ...

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 ...

Lawrence University’s own 15-member Balinese gamelan ensemble — Gamelan Cahaya Asri — closes the college’s 2017-18 World Music Series with a performance 3 p.m. May 20 in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.

Amid lush and graceful tropical foliage, tinkling fountains and lots of bamboo, Gamelan Çudamani took the stage last Thursday for a wondrous evening of Balinese music and dance at UCSB’s Campbell Hall ...

*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 ...

I learned how to listen to gamelan in the womb. Quite literally, in fact; my mother, an American musician and ethnomusicologist, would play Balinese gamelan when she was pregnant with me, sitting ...

Apart from large gongs, its other instruments include kempul (hanging gong), kenong (horizontal gong), bonang (smaller kettle gong), saron (thick bronze xylophone with a wooden case), slenthem ...

Oakland Zoo’s Glowfari has returned, but prices are higher due to tariffs Oakland launches its first Cocktail Week with drink specials, tasty bites Bay Area events calendar for Nov. 14-20 weekly ...