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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 ...

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For many, the shimmering, hypnotic tones of the gamelan are intimately tied to the vibrant culture of Indonesia. But thanks to an extraordinary gift from the Sultan of Yogyakarta in 2014, Ireland has ...

Komang Rosie Clynes combines alternative R&B and electronic music with traditional Indonesian elements, like gamelan. She is one of a growing number of diaspora musicians celebrating Indonesian ...

Plainfield may well be the Javanese gamelan capital of the western world, and certainly of the United States. It all began in the 1960s when Dennis Murphy built the first gamelan in the world outside ...