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 ...

The UC Santa Barbara Gamelan Ensemble presented a concert showcasing ancient gamelan styles of music from Cirebon, West Java at Karl Geiringer Hall on May 23.

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 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, ...

A new large-scale Balinese shadow puppetry performance takes the stage this month at the Kennedy Theatre at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. A live gamelan ensemble, a special lighting effects team ...

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 ...

I am kicking things off with Café Warung Pas. Here, it is all about Indonesian cuisine, but without compromises or clichés. Don’t expect rijsttafels, but rather authentic Indonesian dishes – exactly ...