With heads bent over “instruments”, the SK Bandar Uda 2 pupils wowed the audience with the melody of Malay classics on stage.

The Bucknell Gamelan Ensemble invites students of all majors and backgrounds to learn and perform traditional and new music of Indonesia. Each semester, members have the opportunity to develop playing ...

Founder of Gangsapura Gamelan Studio Teuku Umar Ilany Teuku Iskandar, 35, (middle) played gamelan musical instruments with other instructors when met by Bernama in an exclusive interview at a creative ...

Read more at http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/12/music-of-the-tropics-balinese-drum-troupe-performs-at-the-sackler/ Bells and gongs are the sounds ...

The plucky design behind the legendary instrument that forever changed the look of rock 'n' roll David Levine Musical instruments have existed for eons, and humans continue to create and enjoy ...

Music can serve as a unifier of cultural diversity, a universal language that embraces all parties, and an inseparable part ...

gamelan performer and scholar Sumarsam explores the concept of hybridity in performance traditions that have developed in the context of Javanese encounters with the West. The book begins by looking ...

audio2. Blow, blow, blow The song explores wind instruments and introduces weather sounds, mouth sounds, panpipes, whistles, recorders and trumpets. This series of KS1 Music focuses on instruments ...

In most cases, you can't easily exchange gamelan instruments from a different set like you could with a keyboard or a guitar. Lim points out another way culture could shape musical expectations.